Bird Flu?

When Hubby and I came home earlier after CTK and window shopping at Hub, we saw this and this just at the slope leading up to our block! (sorry ah... I had to use the max zoom and it seem grainy now, coz it was taken at level 3)

These 2 birdies were lying within 100m of just each other!

Is this a cause of concern and should I be getting worried now?!!!

Or should I be calling NEA or goodness knows who else to monitor?

How? hOw? HOW???

is it me or is it u?

I don't know why, but these last few days, we've just been having cold wars, tiffs on and off.

The worse is, at this moment, I cannot remember what happened yesterday to cause me to be upset at u. Yet, I only remember the negative feelings that I am habouring inside me, since yesterday till now.

And, just now, because of a trival thing, I lost my cool too. I simply hate it when after doing a set of chores, realised, there's other things to be done. This something is what u could have done to make our live better too. Must wait for me to do?

I also hate it when I want to settle down to study / do to my TMA, u keep talking. I was ironing, u could have tell me about ur day or whatever it was that you wanna share. Must wait till I want to study then talk.

ARGG!!

Ok... I got to buck up. I cannot let myself sink so low and just think of all the horrible moments that we shared. Our lives cannot be just misery. What's the point of staying married or getting married if we are both perpetually miserable?!

So... Yups. U have been more proactive recently. Earlier, when I needed to hang my laundry, though you were watching TV, u came to help.

When I was struggling with the ironing board, you helped me flatten it.

Also, for the last few weeks, I've noticed that you boil water without me telling / asking you to.

All these are good signs =)

All right. I shall not dwell on all those times when you irriate me. I shall and must focus on your strengths instead.

*Mental note to self: Look at the good things! Look at the good things!*

One Week At the Job

I have spent one week at my new job place. Well everything is going fine, and everyday I am just reading up the manual. Still waiting for my training. My sup. everyday come only after 10am and sometimes dont even come to the office. So my training have been postone day after day.

Before, I went for my previous job as an investment consultant, I have an experience where I was going to pass something to another person and I went to the wrong floor. It seem to me that the experience is telling me that the first time, or the first thing which I meet or take will not be the one for me. Then when I went for the interview at my previous company, I went to the wrong floor again. From there, I have a bit of doubt about my time in that company. Then finally this job comes and it has the same natural as the investment consulant which is sales. So I guess this is the correct job for me :)

Good Food with Good Friends.

Met up for dinner yesterday evening with our RCIA mates. Time really flies and we celebrated our 2nd year Baptism Anniversary admist laughter, chats and photos! Father Yim joined us as well and he told us how he was called to be a servant of God, how he became a Priest.

All too soon, time to say Bye Bye.

Really enjoyed myself with them. When will the next gathering be?!

I must say...

That Hubby is getting on to be very good at giving comments with my pick of clothings recently!

I showed him a dress from Forever 21.

Me: Nice not? =)
Hubby: nice to see, but i think you wear liao like have bb like that.
Me: eeewwww...

He IS improving lei! He used to just say. "U want to buy ar? Have so many already!"

Same massage packaged in a different way and yet I am so darn happy!

And the said dress in question?

This!
picture taken at Forever21 website.

I think... I talk too much. =(

This morning, just before I came to work, hubby woke up to kiss me "bye" and nice day ahead and he added something which I find rather funny...

He said I sleep talked last night. I was not very surprised since this is not the first time it happened. What surprised me was that this time, he can actually HEAR what I was saying though he cannot make head or tails of it.

He said he heard "this one very cute." and to be honest, I have no idea what prompted that statement from me la. I cannot remember dreaming of anything cutsey last night lei.

The next statement had me bursting out in laughter... Hubby heard "I'm very tired."

hahahaha... Gosh.... I must be really really tired. Even when I'm sleeping I can still mutter a "I'm tired." Really is champion lei!!

No news is Good news?

Hmm... It's already been a few days since Hubby went for the interview... still no news.... Does it mean that no news is Good News? Or does it mean that the job search for Hubby continues...
=S Hope can know the verdict earlier to end this horrifying waiting game.

Or does it simply mean that I am too kan cheong??

Interview at Jalan Pesawat.

Finally after so long, being call up for an interview. I guess this is the job which has been waiting for me, or I should say the job I have been waiting for. It is a regional sales executive, something which I wanted to try out, but not very sure if I can do it well. Anyway, if I really get this job, I will do my best to make it this time. :)

Happy Time.

Picture says a Thousand Words right? So, can guess what this it? Yups, the chinese character for "double happiness" and when will this appear? Weddings! =) Hubby and I just came back from Serene & Sunny's wedding dinner at Carlton Hotel. This is my 2nd wedding dinner there, in the same ballroom too!

I cannot remember much about the ambience... neither can I remember the "Wedding Favour" of the previous couple who got married there...

Serene and her new husbad's "Thank You Favour" is rose buds in test tubes, tied in red organza. So pretty. At first glance, we really thought it was Test Tube rose or something like that.. Till we looked at the instructions, then we realised that it's rose buds for making tea! So clever lor. My "cleverity" at work again. =S

I must say, this time round, the food served is good! We enjoyed it every much! =) And, a few of our friends did not turn up, end up, our table only have 7 adults... then halfway, only left with 5, since another couple had to leave earlier to get ready for their drive to JB for golf. Sooo good!!! Can go short holiday.. I also want.. but holiday I don't have... school visit bright and early, I have! =(Thank goodness Lyn and Max were there too and they gave us a ride back, else, we got to take public transport and reach home at goodness knows what time and tomorrow (or rather later) is a working day too. Worse, since I have a school visit early in the morning, must reach office earlier than normal lei! So, all in all, still very blessed that we have a ride home. =) Tks Max and Lyn!

Before going for the dinner, Emma, Hubby and I went for the Sunset Mass in Good Shephard, since we were all lazy to go to CTK for mass in the morning, go home and then go out again. So we decided to go for the last mass and best is that Good Shephard is diagionally opposite to Carlton. Even the timing for mass works perfectly for us! So very happily, we all met up for mass.

Emma bought me this... Some sort of shimmering eye shadow. Which I think is gaining popularity in Taiwan and I heard Korea?Anyway, she got me if for me to try. Have'nt used it yet. But the name sounds so yummy... FONDUE Shadow. The only Fondue I know is that kind where I dipped my fruits/ice-cream/mashmellows into a pot of warm chocolate and pops it into my mouth kind.. I'm sure gonna try how out this Fondue Shadow will taste..opps! LOOK on my eyes!

I saw the brochure of Bobbi Brown and purple seems to be the 'in' colour this season... I must go and update the colours of my cosmestics! =)

Upset.

Yar... upset at hubby now... not very upset, just not happy and feeling pissed off with him.

I know that when he go meets his potential clients and do presentations, instead of just using the normal file, it will be good to do it with a notebook, so I also bloan him my tablet when he needs to go for these meetings as long as I do not need to bring it with me to class for that particular day.

Last week, when he brought it out and came home with it and just left the tablet on the table, I was feeling abit unhappy, coz that same day, I'm having Stats and that is the 1 class that needs a notebook occasionally. I was hoping to bring it with me to class that day. But when I came home, I saw that hubby just left the notebook on the table without charging for me, this left me with no choice, cannot bring to class, I just left the issue as it was. Just told him, next time, use already remember to charge the battery.

Today =( since I went for class, hubby was working on my notebook. When I came back and switched on my tablet, I saw this on my desktop.

=(

Not that I am particular, but hello... this is my tablet right? If he needs or wants to install or download anything, should he not at least say somthing? I'm ok with the 2 wine folders, coz that's easily deleted and won't take up too much space.

What irks me is that without even informing me, he install some program into my tablet! When I asked, he said that it's the program to view/convert somthing into MP4 or something like that.

I hate it. Coz,
1) it clogs up my desktop.
2) it takes up the space.
3) my tablet when running a few applications is slow and unstable, the program will shut down by itself.

I don't want to load too many things into it coz I really want to delicate it to just plainly for my studies. Without all these new things, I won't be so distracted.

Bottom line, is that since hubby has his own PC as well, granted he cannot be bringing his PC out for the presentations, he still does not need to load extra programs into mine!

I guess, for those of you who are reading it will probably say that I'm just being fussy and particular. He is my hubby lor, need I be so particular with all these?? I know this too, but I still feel upset that he has done it.

Does anyone have a clever explaination to this??

Please enlighten me... Am I being selfish and fussy? I think I am. But can I not be so particular and selfish??? That.... I don't know... Am I willing to try to be less of so... I guess I can, but, the thing is, DO I want to. =(

phone call yet again...

There must be a certain reason(s) why FIL likes to call me.

But believe me, I'm not sure what that particular reason is.

Over lunch with Godma and Bro (we were celebrating Godma's bday) in Sakae Sushi earlier, before my butt even warm the seats, I got a phone call. Saw that the number belongs to PIL's home, I made the decision to not answer it. I know it's bad. But hello.... whatever you need to say, can call hubby right?

But FIL will like to call me and ask about hubby... hai... I feel so trapped. On one hand, I don't want to share things about Hubby with FIL, since he is bound to get worried and concern and then nag. On the other hand, if I do say, then I'm not being 'loyal' to Hubby and worse, later FIL will wanna dig more and more.

So the best? I don't answer lor. Then I don't offend anyone. I know I got to make the call back, so I did. After my lessons ended, I called Hubby and asked him to get FIL to the phone. I know with Hubby there, FIL won't say much. So I'm spared.

But! This trick cannot be used once too many lor.

Next time how ar? =S

A date with hubby.

Ever since I started on my programme, it's been a long time since Hubby and I went on a date (of any sorts)!

Decided to take a break for once and we went for a nice dinner in The Cathay. This was my first visit there and looks promising even though most of the shops not opened yet.

Dinner was in La Zesto. And the restaurant was so empty, we were the only ones inside! We had the Pork and Garlic Sausage, Sardine Fish Sandwich and a Peanut Butter Latte. Erm... Looks nice.. but tastes... very normal. Not sure how the sausage tasted, I did not eat that though. Pricing wise... for these 3 finger food.. costs close to $15.. Is that normal? Reasonable? Very long never eat out lei. hahaha... and we just came back from a date earlier with 300 valor Spartans. =) "Based on the epic graphic novel by Frank Miller, 300 is a ferocious retelling of the ancient Battle of Thermopylae in which King Leonidas (Gerard Butler) and 300 Spartans fought to the death against Xerxes and his massive Persian army. Facing insurmountable odds, their valor and sacrifice inspire all of Greece to unite against their Persian enemy, drawing a line in the sand for democracy. The film brings Miller's (Sin City) acclaimed graphic novel to life by combining live action with virtual backgrounds that capture his distinct vision of this ancient historic tale." Source from GV.

From the text, can already guess there's lots of fighting, blood sprewing glory details PLUS sexy, hard bodied (some good looking), mussles rippling men!

I guess for hubby he enjoyed it very much. Me too, not just the fighting and all, I especially LOVE gawking at those bodies! They are awesome mann... Opps.. I mean men! hahaha..

2nd last day of CNY.

Had a small gathering at our nest for a few of my colleagues. A total of 6 came over. And as usual, the group pic is short of 1... coz he's holding the camera. =)

Then very sadly for me, I had to rush off coz I had a make up class (hengz, Mervlyn came to fetch me.. else I have to leave even earlier!!)... leaving the rest to continue yakking.

Following my lessons will be the group discussion for the project and then have to rush back home coz we'll be heading to Yishun for another round of gathering. This time, at the home of one of our church friend.

And her home is... WOO YOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Very very nice!!! Sorry no pics coz, there's sme prior arrangement with the designer.. hence... cannot take. But trust me, it's W-O-W!

Something brewing...

Something is in the pipeline...Finally gonna have some time out from the lessons!

Going to catch the show, 300 soon. Can take it as a night out with hubby. Been a long time since we last did that!

And very pai sey... No idea where The Cathay is at this moment in time too! Hubby and I think it's at Cineleisure... but that then will be named as Cathay Cineleisure right?!

Still have sometime lar, will go find out!

must it be like this?

I don't understand.

Because, I expressed my views, my beliefs, my feel and what I think is the fact on it, you became upset.

I think I've been supportive thus far. I've never said a word on your choice. Instead, I've been encouraging you and just try my best to be there for you.

So now, I'm not even allowed to say what I think?

Granted, I may not have said what I said in the right situation, right time, right venue. But is it necessary for you to become like this?

I'm worried too you know. True, life is good to us now, but will it continue to be like this in future? I know you wanna start a family, but owing to circumstances now, we can't, I want that as much as you do too, you know.

Yet, you tell me honestly, at the rate that you are going, do you think we can even afford to have one now?

I don't even feel the security that I once used to have. You think I will wanna bring another person into the world then?

I'm also so afraid that you are turing out to be like my useless ass of a father. There's a saying that "history tend to repeat itself", daughters tend to follow their mother's shoe. If that's true, then...how sad my life will be.

surprise surprise!!!

Don't know what came over me and I decided to go to the webby of our wedding photographer whom we engaged 2 years ago... and to my surprise, I saw this!AND this!Was very plesantly surprised to find our photos there lei! Not just one but 2 lei! Though don't have my face but still from my wedding mar!

screenshots taken from Paul Goh's Photography.

Sunny Sunday =)

Bright, hot but beautiful day. Mass in CTK followed by a nice lunch at Pasta mania with the parents of my God BB. I had their pinenuts and mushrooms riso. Quite nice lei, but abit too oily for my liking. Light shopping in NTUC for our food and then headed home.

Coz of the mountainous amount of homework, assignments, projects that I have, I settled down in front of the tablet and began to type, type, type...

Sis came over and she helped me slightly with my stats and after that we all went over to my parents' place for dinner.

Dinner was a noisy, lively, kan cheong (no thanks to my mom!), delicious affair. Mom's oldest sis joined us for dinner (as like last year) and we sort of had our late reunion dinner since we missed it this year. We had a homemade "lo hei", stewed mushrooms (heh! Just had it yesterday!!!) some vegs and shark fins soup wor. Not bad for a 'simple' dinner horz?

Yakked, laughed and tease each other, this should be how a dinner is! Not just complain and grumbling or eating in silence lor! I totally enjoy myself!!!

Hubby surprised me... he said my version of stew mushrooms is nicer as compared to my mom's! I'm impressed!!! hahahaha....

Headed home slightly after 9 and again typing away at my assignments. =( I forsee my life to be like this for the next 3 years.

It's really quite fun to study... but the mountainous of work is driving me crazy. How nice, if I can just study without all the stress!!! But hor, how come I never thought like this when I was a FT student last time huh?! I never enjoyed studying then lei!!!

Pot Luck

Sitting at the desk (which by the way, I'm spending more and more time at doing so), typing, typing, reading, referring to notes, textbooks, online materials and goodness where else...

I've also left a pot of mushrooms stewing at the stove in my Tan Yu Clay pot. So far, this pot has only been used to cook my weekly porridge and once a while soya sauce chicken. That's about it. Talk about being UNDER utlise!

But then again, it's really coz I've no time to prepare food for myself and hubby recently. So busy with the school work and just going for lessons is also taking a chore to me already.

But nevertheless, today, is the First time, I'm attempting this dish. This stewed mushroom is actually quite popular among the cantonese. We like it. I've done the soaking of the mushrooms since last night. So that the mrooms will be big and thanks to this action of mine, the whole house smells of mrooms too!

I think even though all are cantonese, we have different methods of preparing this simple dish. I asked Wise and she said use garlic, my mom says garlic AND shallot and also fatty pork meat. ewwww.... Anyway, I did not buy the pork, so I only used dried scallops and also oysters. Mom and hubby "ewww-ed" at the mention of oysters coz they dislike the 'fishy' taste. But I like it. Since I'm the chef today, I call the shots right?

Armed with cooking instructions, albit different ones from Wise, Godma and mom, I came up with my own mixture and it looks like this, while still stewing on the stove.
Ermm... Kind of looks different from the ones that I ate last week at mom's place... Coz she used fatty pork and don't know what veg... But the aroma was quite encouraging when I lifted up the lid.

The results will be known tonite when we bring this to Godma's plc for dinner. Celebrating CNY at her place and it's pot luck. Really not sure how's the verdict, but I think, it's ediable lar, only not sure if it's very ediable or just barely make it kind lor.

Update later tonight after they've tried then.

Edited to add: My mrooms pass, Godma says not bad. PASS! =)

年初二

Woke up late this morning, almost close to 11am then we decided to leave our warm bed.

Nothing much was planned for the day, just that we will be going over to my parents' place for gathering with the relatives who are dropping by and also for dinner.

This year my mom is lazy, she decided to not have ALL the relatives over, so just leave it open, whoever wants to come just come. We went over at about 3pm, my 2nd uncle and his entire family was already there.

First time after so long, I'm meeting all the little nephews and neiece. Those boys have all grown so much!! From the little BB in diapers, now they are like 3 or 4 years old! According to my sis, they came much earlier and well, they run short of tearing the house down with their, climbing, running, screaming and shouting. Coz when I saw them, I was just commenting, one of them is quite well behaved. haha... Guess, I was very wrong.

This year, only 2nd uncle, 3rd uncle, 7th aunt and 11th aunt came with their families. The rest sort of MIA I guess. I think it's also good lor. For them, they just come and eat then go. My poor mom got to cook, wash up and clean up after they are gone too! Not to mention, AP also got to give more! hahaha...

Since not all the kiddies are here, so the APs that we prepared had leftovers. These boys are really cute and adorable! And yes, again, I got THE million dollar questions. hai.. when will this stop?

Dinner was a simple affair, fish, chicken, duck, stew mushrooms and soup. Compared to previous years, this is really quite simple! Mom getting lazy! hahaha..

All these kiddies left shortly after dinner, hubby and I stayed on longer till slightly after 9pm then we went home to. Was online with Sis and she complained that my dad and another aunt both totally drunk are talking nonscense and she can't wait for them to go home.

At times like this, I'm very glad that I already have my own nest and can escape all these! hahaha.. Bad I know, but can't help it!

Year of the "Oink Oink!" 大年初一

Happy New Year!!!

The year of the Piggy is here already!!! I'm sure, this year will have lots of pink, fluffy BB being born! Chinese adore the sign of the pig. Morever, this year is the year of the GOLDEN Pig, even better!

Early morning, we went to CTK first for our Sunday mass. Met a few ppl there and of course the priests were there. My first round of AP distribution was done in CTK (not including AP for parents and silbings which was done last nite!) Everyone was dressed so prettily, bright, cheerful colours, nice smiles and all. Nice! I like. Fr. Yim as usual is the most in "demand" priest, he in his cheena coustume got the BIGGEST crowd surrounding him all the time. We had to stand in queue for sometime before he finally had time to acknowledge our pressence!

Next stop was to my Grandma's house in AMK, it's quite near from CTK, but still have to take a bus and it's direct bus, so very happy lor. Had lunch there and there was another round of "Happy New Year" and more APs being given away. Had lunch there. Food was so so la. The normal kind of CNY food. I think I must be very hungry, I actually had 2 helpings of the bee hoon!

Chatted with cousins, relatives and then it's time for hubby and me to move off to our final destination, hubby's grandma's house, this time in Yishun. From my grandma's plc to his grandma's plc, there's no direct bus, but there are buses to get us to Yishun, from there, change another bus. Not that bad. Weather was windy and breezy. Nice!

By the time we reached, almost all the relatives are there. Began the next round of "Happy New Year" and AP giving. This time, it's hubby who gave away coz I'm not sure who is who, so easier for hubby to do that instead. In addition to all these, I have different aunties coming up to me at different times asking the million dollar question....

"When are you getting pregnant?"

Other variations include, "Pregnant already?", "Planning for BB yet?" etc. My answer to them will be "no, I'm studying". And they will definately follow up with, "Still not yet ar?", "when your course end?", "can study and pregnant at the same time ma."

-_-"

Got sooooooooo sick of it, but no choice, I expect them to ask. But, thank God, PILs has so far NOT said anything at all, ever since in Batam, when we told FIL that we are going to further ourselves.

There's enough kids in that house to mess up every single thing, they don't need any more young ones to be ruining whatever else there is.

I actually felt quite pissed off by all these asking but still I bear thru it, instead entertained myself with the younger kids. I dislike going to hubby's grandma's plc. The plc is over crowded, hot and no space to even stretch your legs!

After dinner, hubby and I called it a day and went back home to our quiet, peaceful, cozy home. I'm so glad that the day is over! Still have 2 more days to enjoy before going back to work! =)

It's time to 吃团年饭

Another LUNAR year has past. And the time has come for all the family members to gather at the dining table for 团年饭.

This year as like last year, we will be going over to hubby's parents' place for dinner. It's really at times like this that I feel it's so unfair. Why does the wife have to go to the husband's side for reunion? Cannot go to MY parents' plc meh? Also parents ma. Also reunion ma. Reunion at hubby's side then my side how? Really sometimes, I feel the chinese is so unfair to their daughters. Anway, grouches aside, dinner at PIL's place for me this year. (again.)

We reached early enough with the mandrain oranges, APs, a can of pineapple tart, "Lo Hei" and also the steamboat + BBQ machine. After all the calling, we settled down to watch TV. Had nothing to do and while watching TV, I even dozed off, think I'm too stressed out over the online assisgnments last night and slept late. But before all these, I noticed that there is a big hamper on the table. Nicely wrapped up, then we found out that it was OBIL's GF who brought this over for the PILs. Nice of her hor? Can see that she's trying hard to get into the PILs' good books, and I hope she will succeed. That will take the 'grandchild' issue off me and hopefully, FIL will not be calling me too often then! =)

Would have been a good dinner, if FIL does not keep saying that he don't eat this and don't eat that and would have been better if YBIL knows when to keep quiet about the food too. After he HAD eaten his fill, he start to complain that this is not nice, that is not nice. Honestly? If I'm the mother, he would have received more than just food from me. But being, the very indulgent parents that my PILs are, they kept quiet. So being, just the DIL, of course I will not say anything else.

I cannot stand YBIL's rudeness. Really, I cannot. Critizising the food that MIL had prepared and then complain not nice not nice when he had finished dinner. Then eating, chewing everything loudly. Which person with the right mannerism will behave like that?! Even if the food is really not nice, how can he keep harping on it?! It is this same food that has brought him up to who he is now lor!

Anyway, after dinner, I helped to wash up. Then we settled down once again in front of the TV. Nothing much on TV and had to remind hubby twice to give the AP and also the oranges for a early "bai nian". Finally, time to "Lo Hei".

It's also auspicious to say something nice when 'lo hei-ing' and YBIL said, harmony in the family, I thought that's nice and sweet of him. Next he mention, "find a GF" I almost burst out laughing! hahaha... I did not laugh, but I sniggered. Not that I think he can't. Just that his mannerism will not frightened the girls meh?! Anyway, time will tell.

Finally, it's time to go home. Finally, I can go home! I find it quite a torture to be there to listen to YBIL go on about the food... somemore it's CNY eve! OBIL sent us home, I was not keen to take his car, but had no excuse to say no.

Reached home, grapped more oranges and AP then we went over to my parents' home. At least, the atmosphere is relax, we were just chatting and laughing while watching TV at the sametime. Not like in PIL's place. Stayed till slightly over midnight, then hubby and I went off back to our own nest.

Today is quite a nuah day for us, we managed to clean up the house last evening, I finished my assisgments as well, so today was lazing in front of the TV. Not a bad way to spend my CNY eve at all. If only, we did not have to go to PIL's place!

Made a pact with hubby already, next year, we are going back to MY parents' plc for reunion dinner!

My Birthday!

They say picture paints a thousand words and I guess, I shall let the pictures do the talking for the day or rather afternoon we had yesterday....

Lunch. Look at all these food! We, being creatures of habbit, went to Soup Spoon...Hubby's chicken hotpie soup or something...My Naan and Mushroom soup. And the highlight of all, my bday present....

Can guess it yet?

Yups... My new Fila sports duffel. I love the colours! So sweet and nice and pretty right?! Thank you Darling, I love it!!! =)

Happy Valentine's!

Did you have a good celebration with your special someone?

Mine was pretty lonely and I must say sad. =( Don't get me wrong that hubby and I are not on good terms. Just that, I spent the greater part of my evening in Uni SIM while come to think of it, I'm not so sure what did Hubby did for the evening! ha!

Thankfully, my class starts at 7.30pm on Wednesdays and thus, we could still have Vday dinner together!

Needed to go to somewhere relatively near and not too expensive and Sumo House in AMK came to mind! Japanese food at a low low price! Called hubby and he agreed to dinner before my class. Quickly, we made our way to the restaurant... and just as quickly made our orders. The restaurant was not packed. Not even half full, I guess either the ppl are going to town, where there's more actions or they are staying away! Or maybe, our young couples feeling broke after all the flowers, pressents, chocolates, that they are staying indoors!? =P

Anyway check out our dinner spread!We had chicken udon, chicken bento, baby octopus, shisamo and also more chicken, chicken satay! haha.. I think we are fans of chicken. Tastes not too bad. But costs is very reasonable. Less than $20!

After such a good dinner, I got to rush to catch the bus to go off else I'll be late for my first tutorial lesson. Hubby then went off to his parents' place.

Thank God, I got to know one of my classmate better and he very gallantly offered me a ride home since he stays in Sengkang, it's on the way for him. =)

Reached home earlier than expected. Was eager to see what hubby has for me for this special day today. I hunted high and low, coz well.. I was expecting something different. Till I saw this. A cute Minnie mouse cup and saucer set in purple. A girly colour! =) I have no idea hubby got me this. Since, he gave me the impression that he will be getting me something else instead. Since, he told me to go and choose what I wanted. It's a cute set but not really what I expected nor wanted. I find it too small to be of good use. But well, since it came from hubby... Shall make the best use of it! Already 'kai chang' the cup with hot peppermint tea from Evelyn & Crabtree that I bought eons ago. =)

While, early this morning, even before I went out of the house, I already given him my pressie for him... I got it prepared eons ago. His keychain (that came as a pair with mine) broke sometime ago and I was looking for something else for him.

So this morning, while he was still in bed, I swopped his old keychain to this!Of course, I changed mine too so that we will still have a pair. Nice? Robotic Keychains are what we are using now! I like it that the robots actually comes with "hook" hands, I can arrange them in any order that I want! Needless to say, mine is the pink bot is mine while the black bot is hubby's!Now, don't they look as though the 'guy' bot is leading the 'girl' bot in some kind of walk/run/stroll?! hahahaha How nice it will be to be able to do that with hubby every single day of our lives, even till when we are so old and can barely walk! Isn't it nice when you see old old couples still walking hand in hand? I love it! And this is what I'm striving to acheive with hubby. Growing old together, hand in hand....

Anyway, the fact is, I love to get things that comes in pairs when it comes to Vday and anniversaries! I find that it's more meaningful!

So busy!

Hai... What a busy busy Saturday for the both of us!

Morning, we both woke up late and then, after starting the washing machine, we went out. Off to Aw's (my colleague) house warming. The new house is in Hougang. Not too far, but sucks, no direct bus, have to change bus.. sian lei. Anyway, we reached there pretty early. Sat around, had lunch and chatted with more colleagues.

Hmm... I don't like the way his house is done up... Furniture is quite cheena lei... and gosh! I totally, totally hate the colours of his house!!! Green with orange cornices.... yucks... Looks so... ermmm.. just so off.

Anyway, after 2, 3 hours there, we left. Reached home, do the laundry and then we set about cleaning up the house, the usual vaccumm, mopping, wiping and putting things away, that took up the rest of the afternoon! Time just flew by!

I was thinking since we are already up and about, might as well go CTK for mass, at least tomorrow, we can sleep in and have a more restful Sunday. Hubby agreed and off we went out agian.

I was so tired out during mass that I literally dozed off! I can only remember Fr Koh's first opening about this woman.... think that's it. hai....

Walked over to J8 for dinner. Wanted something soupy and hubby got the mini pot noodles for me. Not bad.. But silly hubby added chili and me in my terriably hoarse voice should not be taking chili.... but nvm lar, just eat abit lor. The noodles is nice. I think we will go back for more next time.

Waked around and saw a camera that looks good. Price wise.. ok lar. Not that damaging to the pockets but while browsing around some more, Hubby mentioned, since I need to video myself for the presentation, might as well get a handycam or something rather than just the still cameras. He has a point too and I was looking at the prices... yeah... maybe a good idea to get a handy camera since the price difference is about $400... Well, we shall see.

Hubby brought me to J8 coz he was hoping that I will choose a bday present for myself... after walking... Still nothing caught my eyes lei... Really quite sian at J8.. sigh...

But hubby bumb into a few ppl today... and all in the same shop! I was browsing and I finally set my eyes on something... Hubby was saying the other color nicer for me and all when his friend called him.... So I went to ask the retail for the item and kept browsing.. sucks!! NO MORE!!! hai...

So... just my luck lor.... But anyway, already made a reservation for it... see when it comes.... Hubby will collect and then we will annouce what it is... what my Bday present for this yr will be.. hahah..

OH!!! Darling, don't forget my Vday present as well hor....

Nitez out.

Went to check out Chinatown with hubby after work just now.

Was supposed to go tomorrow instead but my facial salon can only offer me a slot for tomorrow, so swop plans and went to Chinatown instead.

If you are there for lights, quite disappointing. Not nice lei. No signs of THE pig. If you are there for food, also equally disappointing. Maybe it's the crowd, I'm not sure. But the "Tian Qi porridge" that we shared was expensive and the porridge not nice the frog was nice though. So we paid $19 for a frog's leg each, a char siew bao, a pork bun, fish slices and a pot of BLAND, tastLESS white smooth, waterly porridge. =(

Walked around and if you are there for the CNY goodies, also be prepared to be disappointed. I don't think it's too early to start buying and keeping, yeah, the prices are not down yet. But hey... need to be so expensive not? And also the variety is not much!

The most stalls that we saw? "Taiwan Muah Chee & Jelly" I have been craving the muah chees for a long time, so we are the proud owners of $10 worth of muah chees and another $7 worth of square, sweet lookalike cuttlefish! Since, really nothing catches our eyes anymore, we decided to head for home.

Pass by the branch of "Ling Zhi Yuan", popped in and came out $50 poorer but armed with their famous "Bak Kua" and also 2 packs of pork floss. Our loot for the night. Muah Chees and cuttlefish. The jelly are FOC and came with the muah chees. Doesn't it look pretty? So colourful right? And the famous "Ling Zhi Yuan" who will be sold out weeks before CNY. Wonder what's so good about their "Bak Kua"? Anway, it's not for us. "Bak Kua" for my parents, pork floss for my PIL.

Din buy much just snacks and we are almost $100 poorer. But I feel darn shiok when spending money lei!

Must be a woman's thing!

Who is whose cross?

Is hubby my cross to bear or I am hubby's cross to bear?

I've heard the same thing being said in RCIA... marriage is a cross for both parties to bear. But does marriage have to be in such 'agony'? Granted that most times, I claim that it's hubby whose making me irriated and pissed off. But as I sit down now to reflect, am I being a cross to hubby too? Just that his way of showing is different from me?

Hubby after making an entry, asked me to read and tell him what I think and feel.

I did.

I felt stumped at what he wrote. Cause, I suddenly felt that our life together seems to be in 'misery' and 'agony' rather than the 'enjoying married life'. I do feel a little guilt at treating hubby the way I did.

Hubby was quite sweet, having seen my reaction and hearing me out, he added, "must be because, he had been eating too much recently, hence his weight is more than I can bear."

This really brought a smile to my lips. Trust him to say the funniest and heart warming things at this moment.

But still, I still do feel slightly bad, for making him feel lousy. Making him feel that he is the cause of all my unhappiness (though he's the indirect cause), that he got to behave himself like a little boy who is told "unless you behave, I don't love you".

I do! I do love you, Darling. I guess, I'm too much of a FCB to back down during the situation. Please forgive me too. =(

I am Her Cross

When we were in RCIA, I think I heard people say that in marriage, we are each others cross to bear, and it is a cross that God have given us so that we can learn and grow.

It is on the cross that Jesus die and save us from sin.

I think I am really my wife's cross. I think sometime she is really really mad at me. I have really do things which test her almost beyond her limit. But like I say earlier, all this is for her to grow. I am her big cross to bear, and I was thinking to myself why did I do what I did. One reason I could think of is because I am her cross and God have place me here to test her. I hope I don't give her so much trouble from now.

What a busy busy day...

*phew* What a busy busy day I had.

Early in the morning, hubby and I had a wedding to attend. Luckily, it's a church wedding held at Risen Christ in Toa Payoh, which is thankfully near and we even have a direct bus to the church! Really thank God!

Erm... I'm not sure if it's me or what, but I thought the ceremony was much slower than usual and sounds so much more solemn than the most solemn mass ever held in church.

The hymns were of those that I've never heard off (that is nothing out of the ordinary coz I'm only a catholic for like 2 years plus) but hey... wedding ma, should'nt the hymns be more cheerful sounding?

And the hymns were so difficult to sing. The cantor made some mistakes along the way too... unfortuntely for the couple. If it was my wedding, I think I will be slightly disappointed.

But nevertheless, the couple did come out with some ingenious ways to liven up the wedding ceremony. We had to dress 'retro' for the wedding and during lunch reception, there were singers entertaining us with lively songs and the couple even put up some dances for us! haha... that was different from the usual weddings we had attended! And I do like their wedding favour. A cute keychain!

Godma and me then made a really fast change OUT of our 'retro' clothes into something casual and we made a dash to the rocher market to grab our CNY suppplies. Hubby was so sweet, he carried all our clothes home so that we can have both hands free to do our shopping!

Our first stop? To hit the shops selling clothings and shoes. I need some pairs of shoes for CNY and last year, we each got like 3 pairs and thus we went back. Soooo disappointing! Can't find any at all!!! =(

We decided that we will go shopping for shoes at another time, so we went on with our quest for CNY goodies. Passed by another shop where we both got plenty of skirts last year as well. Of course we went in. This year.... sigh... we each walked out with only 1 skirt.

But further down the road, as Godma was looking at lao ah ma clothings for her mom, something caught my eyes too. A pair of shorts! Realising that I've not bought any since 2,3 years ago. I went ahead and got it.

Nice?

I think it is. Bubbles and stripes are so 'in' now. I can wear this to the reunion dinner at my PIL's place. Just need some tanks or racers or spaghettis now. And my casual bit of the wardrobe is done. =)

After satisfying our own vanity, proper shopping is in order. But first, let us see to our rumbling stomachs. Hmmm... we did not eat much at the lunch reception earlier so had to see to our energy level now.

We both had fish hor fun. Hm.. not nice. Very bland. But food is food and we really needed the energy... so be it. And it was sooo hot and hard to get seats at the market!

Finally, Shopping for CNY proper! We squeeze thru the throngs of ppl, sampling the foodstuffs along the way and then finally went back to our usual store to grap our supplies. And this was what I got...

Lots hor?

But not all for myself la. There's enough for my own parents, PIL and also some for hubby and me. There's like dried mushrooms, dried oysters for soup, scallops, my mom's favourite "fa-chai", shrip and pork floss rolls and also my cravings, mochi from Taiwan. All these items costs us close to $110 lor. But not that bad lar coz once a year and we don't actually give additional $$$ to the parents after this, so it's still quite ok.

Hopped onto the bus and got on the way home happy with our loot.

Just after we both arrived home, the skies opened and it started pouring... wah... hengz man. Else we would be caught at the bus stop and can't go home, carring all these heavy things.

Hubby was at PIL's place and I got ready for our dinner date with Clement, Wisely and BB. Bathed and then rested while waiting for hubby to come back. He needed to bring some PC stuff back so that he can too use his PC to surf net.

We left home at 6pm to meet our dinner kakis and then I got an sms saying that they already arrived! Woah!! So early. But we were kind of in a jam and cannot reach any earlier even if we wanted to. But we were on time lar.

Had dinner at Lao Bei Jing in Novena. Food is nice. I especially like the beking duck, the pork in garlic sauce and even the french beans was good! I think if hubby and I are feeling rich, we will go back. It's nice food but a tad pricy if we were to eat it often. As usual, when the 4 of us are together, we yak nineteen to the dozens! We chatted about anything and everything.

Clement said his ex-colleague had a brand new shop opened today and we went too. It's at Noveva square 2, the other side of the MRT station from the Novena square. Smoothies and new flavoured beancurds. Hubby and I feeling full, shared the "MangoBbengo". Nice. I can taste the richness of the mango fruit. Not like others where they used mango flavours. Nice and rich. But also can be pricy if I were to drink it on a daily basis. Clement had the "Banapina" and Wise + BB had "Grape beancurd" we were given a huge discount but I'm not sure how much ours costs in the end.

Healthy and wholesome drinks. Do go and try it out if you like smoothies and they are having promotions now! A dollar off for every smoothies. The location??

Well, here it is.
Tofu King. smoothie & fruit beancurd.
10 Sinaran Drive
#B1-94
Square 2 (the other side of the Novena MRT station from the usual Novena Square).

And being chatterboxes, we spent at least another 30 mins there before we all called it a night.

Off to the bus stop, hubby and I went and the Choong family went to hail a cab. Nice ending to a nice day. Somemore, the rain had stopped! Yay!!!

Off to bed now. Tomorrow will be another day.

It's the nth day.

Ever since the last time when my family in law came over during Christmas and my YBIL irked me so much, I've not seen my family in law. None of them.

I told hubby that I will not want to step foot into my PIL's hse for the next 2 months then I reduce to a month coz I figured 2 months is simply too long and I have no valid reason to not go for so long.

So, yeah. Since Christmas, I've not seen any of them. And I've not been to PIL's hse for 27 days (and counting). But, according to hubby, FIL is begining to question why I've not been there. Blame me for my stubborness, but I still refused to go.

My reasons for not gng are simple. These few days, weeks, I've been so bogged down with the mad house that I've been knocking off late. Like 7pm or so. And hubby recently is so "happening" meetings with his $$ mastery, MLM and goodness knows who, he's out almost everynight. So cannot be I go to PIL's plc and hubby not there right?

Ok, bottom line is that these are still excuses. Excuses for my stubbornness in not going.

But after so many people have been advising me to go and see the parents, I guess, I have no other choice but to move my ass down. swallow my stubborness. Hubby said that almost everyday, FIL will asked if I'm going for dinner. I don't think he miss me so much la. I think the old folk just find it weird that how come their son come alone without the wife. The most funny thing was that FIL asked hubby if we are all right. I think he must have been worried that we argued and all.

So, no choice, I got to move my butt over soon. One of these week nights for dinner. And hubby picked Thursday.

Nothing on for that night for himself and me. Just that how fanastic. Instead of just seeing YBIL, I may get to meet OBILL too! -_-"

Great isn't it?!

We have more responsbilities now.

Besides the usual, housework, maintaining our marriage, siblings relationships, parents and parents and parents in law relationships, juggling work and my impending studies, we have 1 more responsibilities now.

Clement and Wiselyn asked us to be their little one's Godparents!

Woo Hoo!!! I'm so excited for them and for us too!! I can't wait to see the little one. Though it's only about 6 wks in mommy's stomach, I do so wish to know the gender of the BB so I can start my shopping for our little Godchild!

Mommy and Daddy are of course excited as well but momsy is great friends with Ms Plastic Bag and Ms Toilet Bowl now. Poor momsy. But I guess it's a stage that momsy will have to go thru...

The Little one is growing well and good. Hubby and me are praying for the well being of the little one and of course momsy.

So happy and excited.

This year is a good year for babies. Already, we know of 3 babies coming to meet us! One in Feb, another in June and our little godchild in Aug/Sep! Wow!

I'm so excited, I can't wait to meet all of them!

Hubby and I are honoured that Clement and Wise want us to be their firstborn's godparents. Of course we agreed! Now, pray and wait for the arrival of this special BB! =)

CNY is on the way.

After shopping with Godma for almost the whole afternoon, hubby and I arranged to go to Audio House to collect our free gift from Citibank.

Reached there and shopped around. Nothing to buy at all. Liang Court is really quite a pathetic place to be in. But the weather was sooo good today. No rain, no sun but plenty of wind! Hubby was feeling hungry and we had Mac outdoors. Quite a good time to people watch and just enjoy the breeze. In fact, it was so comfortable that we both almost nodded off to sleep!

Hubby suggested that we go Chinatown since CNY is round the corner and we assume that the decorations should be up by now, since it's about a month away to CNY.

Being the sua ku me, I did not even know that can walk over to Chinatown from Clarke Quay! So, hubby walked me there.

Quite disappointing lei. Chinatown is not ready to receive CNY yet. Not much decorations are up. But the crowd is already there. Not to mention, there's alot of foreigners too as well.

Feeling hungry, we stoped at the Food Street for dinner. I think it's a mistake to have dinner there. Gosh! 1)The food takes forever. 2) It's expensive. 3) Not nice! Maybe the tourists find it interesting. But as locals... hmm... I don't want to wait that long, morever, it's self service. Then so expensive as compared to other food courts or coffeeshops and worse! After going thru all the hassle of queueing and paying more, the food is not nice!

This will be my first and last time that I eat in this Food Street again lor.

Din get anything much except for 5 CNY kind of stickers for our house to hang. Which, we shall keep 2 for ourselves, one or 2 for my mom and the rest for PIL. Other than that, nothing. Anway, I was also feeling tired from the morning bout of shopping and we decided to head for home.

I'm not sure what hubby had been doing, I know he did the chores and he appeared to be very tired lor coz he feel asleep on the bus. While I, though tired can't sleep. =(

Rainy rainy day.

What a wet wet morning! This rain has been pouring since yesterday with just some brief moments of stopping and then the floodgates opened once again and the waters came down even heavier!

Wet and cold was the weather but so was I for the past 2 days!

Anyway, I like this kind of weather and very strangely, of all days, hubby and me decided to hit the towns after work. I know hubby wanted to go to John Little to get some shirts since they were having some sort of promotion. But! We went a day too late! The promotion ended yesterday!!

I was soo looking forward to the end of the work day and immediately when the clock shows 5.30pm, I dashed out of the office to meet hubby.

*DANG!* Hubby late lor.. for at least 10 mins. I kena sit at the MRT station and wait for him with a rumbling stomach. Finally when he reached, we caught the next train and went on our way. Was thinking of what to eat and I finally decided that I want Manhattan Fish. But don't know for whatever reason, we ended up in MOS. My favourite fastfood for the moment.

We spent a long time in MOS not coz we were eating slowly but our food took forever to come. After gobbling down our food, we went to JL. Hubby began his "touch touch here, touch touch there" regime. I just followed him around and comment on the colour.

Then the 'trying' regime began. I've lost count of the number of times he went in and out of the fitting room and myself. He went in to try taking like 1 piece each time and I had to walk in and out to take other sizes or colours for him.

How come men shop like tat wan? Not very effective lei. Should be like us, women ma, take ALL that we fancy and then try all at one shot ma!

Anyway, after a good 1 hour in JL, hubby finally decided on 2 long sleeves shirts. Not bad. It's strippy and in a colour that I've never seen hubby in so far. One is white and blue, rather boring and the other is black and purple! Ha... I think he looks quite cool in it though. hahaha

Can't wait for CNY to see him in his new clothes!

Not a bad evening =) Got not bad dinner, new clothes and also a good time with hubby. Somemore got a pack of Ang Pow packets free coz we spent more than $50. And it's cute lei. Winne the Pooh and his friends.. haha.. Total of 8 pieces, 2 of each design.

Cute right? My favourite is Piglet!

The only thing that irked us was we spent about 30 mins waiting for 162! argg!!!

I need some comforting!

Was so super duper swarmed with work that I need some comfort food. And sweet hubby tapowed this for me. From Botak Jones in AMK.

It's "Giant Beef Dog Set" but I guess you cannot see the sausage from here... The set actually comes with PLENTY of fries, THE sausage in a bun with lots and lots of onions. But the sausage is being burried under all the 'accessories' so.... So here IS the sausage!
Looks very big hor?! It is!!!

Coz it's tapowed so the fries turned kind of soggy. But nevertheless it's still good. I love sausages. I think I'm just begining to get hooked onto it already!

Everywhere I go, I'm being drawn to the smell of freshly grilled sausagges!!!

We are boring ppl.

U know I had to go to Uni SIM for Orientation today right? Well, I've blog about that in my other blog which you can click here and here to read it.

After which hubby and me went to Holland Village for dinner. I wanted to pick a nice place to relax and enjoy dinner with hubby but the whole day's events kept coming back to me and I was honestly too bothered to have a good evening out with hubby.

After walking up and down the streets for like twice? We still cannot decide on a place and guess where we went? The market! Chey! I was still thinking of a nice lomantic dinner lei!

*bleh*

Anway, we din want to overspend, so the market is fine. I was joking with hubby that we can actually order a whole tableful of food and yet pay like 50% of wat we paid in any of those restaurants. And I was almost right!

We had char keow teow, chicken chop with grilled fish with fried rice completed with a sunny side up egg and satays. Wanted to go for dessert but too thirsty, so end up we bought chin chow. Just the 2 of us and we had quite a mountain of food! The table was not totally full but we were so stuffed out. Can't finish the food too.

Being the super boring people that we were. Know where we go?

Bus stop to go home.

HEH! And it was only slightly after 8pm!

There's so many places, restaurants and pups and don't know what we can choose to go for dinner, but we choose the market. Holland V is know for it's night life and we choose to go home?!

What can I say? B-O-R-I-N-G.

Completed study room.

Got this drill set from Home Fix at a reasonable $59, at Velocity before the Thanksgiving mass and we lugged it around with us. I was quite excited to get to work setting up the itmes but then we lack some of the important itmes.. and also, hungry men and women are ANGRY people too. So we went for lunch and after buying the necessary drill, screws and the plastic holder to hold the screws in, we set to work.

After countless times of me holding vaccumm cleaner tube to the drilling point, with hubby drilling in... we finally made progress! I will say it's not bad in our 1st attempt in DIY-ing these blinds. I like our new improved study room look even better now!

I don't have to worry about others walking past and peering in and giving me a fright!

But hor, must say this, cheap drills come at a price too lar, the drill bit became smoothen out by the 4th hole we made.. =(

First day of 2007

What were you doing today? On the first day of the new year???

Hubby and I went to a few places. First, we head out to AMK, coz Emma has made arrangements for her girl friend to come fetch all of us to a faraway place, a place where I will not normally go without transport. Know where yet?

TAMPINES!!!

We went to the MEGA Courts, coz Emma want to get a TV and also some furniture. While, hubby and me want to go to the new Ikea. So just nice, since we all heading for the same way. Reached Courts at close to 1pm and went for lunch first thing. We were all famished having just woke up and went out immediately we are ready.

OMGoodness! The queue was horrible!! We waited at least 20 mins in the queue before we were able to get anything ok! The service is very very slow. The concept is slightly of that if Ikea's where you take your tray and go to various counter to get your food. But somehow, since Courts are serving hot food, the concept does not work as well as Ikea's.

But their menu looks good la... hahaha... Or it could be coz I was very V-E-R-Y hungry... But hor, after waiting for so long, the food was indeed disappointing la... erm... Not nice lor... just 'can eat' kind only.

The crowd there is horrible, could be coz it's a PH today. Everywhere we go, throngs of people! And the building is very strange. You can go up to ONLY level 3 if you take the escalator. Level 2 is TOTALLY not acessiable! unless you take the lift.

Then within the floors, you will find that it's easy to go up, but to go down... you must take lift. And they have a "Mr Lift" there to help you go to the various levels. Funny 1. So while you are there. Better PRAY darn hard that there is no fire, no anything coz chances are cannot get out of the building lor!!!

Emma finally got her TV, coffee table and also side table. While she was doing that, hubby and me went to racki digital cameras. After all the comparisons in looks, models, weight, usage, blah, blah, I think I will go for Sony T10 after all. Coz it's must easier to use even WITHOUT the manual!!! So what if Canon is better. I go for the usability!

Hubby and I walked over to Ikea first before Emma and her friend and while shopping and waiting, we got these.

3 blinds for our current study room. So that we can open our windows and yet, not be afraid of people walking past us and looking in.

The frame is for Godma. She mentioned over dinner last nite that, she aimmed this photoframe for 4 years but coz of the price, she 'bu se de' buy. Wah Lau... $13, Ok la, I buy for her. Since her Bday coming soon lor. hahahah..

When the 2 ladies came over to join us, we decided that it's time for tea. What else to have???

Of course THE swiss meatballs and chicken wings!!! Off we went to queue again... Gosh...

Another 20 mins or so of standing in line and by this time, my spine and legs was killing me!!! My first present from my good friend, to welcome in the new year with me! *Faint*

Anyway, Jeffrey told us that we ain't see anything like Ikea Tampines where the people push a trolly holding 3 trays. We thought he was joking... and when we saw it today... OH!!! It's TRUE!!! Almost everyone buys soooooooooo much that, each is pushing a 3 tray tier trolly! Same for us la. Between the 4 of us, we had 6 pcs of wings, 20 meatballs & 3 hotdog buns. Not a lot actually but it was still very filling.

Crowd @ Ikea. EVERYTHING also must queue!!!

Finally after all the eating, drinking, resting and chatting, we decided to make a move. Another reason was also there was another family standing close to us, aiming for our seats. Another more pushing factor was that Emma and her gal friend want to go to Tampines mall for some shopping. Same for me! Same for ME!!! hahaha... Since we had the car, hubby just went along. He din complain of tiredness or anything.

And see what I've got within 2 hours of walking around in Tampines?

Nice???

I like! Spent only about 2.5 hours but can buy things. Happy happy. Hubby was real sporting today. Throughout the whole day, he did not mention tired at all. Not even when I was going into EVERY SINGLE store that catches my eye and he waited while I tried on pieces after pieces!

But in one of the shops, I kind of got irriated at hubby. I asked him to bring me a skirt and he brought me shorts! DUH!!!! But now as I think back, cannot blame him la.. He's bored and tired.

And guess what? While I was shopping, I completely forgot my sore spine and tired legs. It was only when it's close to our appointed meeting time then I found myself getting tired.

Happy day! Got things for the house and clothes for myself. Nice!!!

But I'm really beat now. Will go rest.

First Minute of 2007!

What were you doing on this First Day of the New Year??

For hubby and me, we were in Novena Church celebrating a Thanksgiving mass. Thanking and reflecting on what God has bless us with for the pass year. After the mass, we had a countdown, ushering in the brand new, hot-from-the-oven 2007.

So, yups. My FIRST minute was with my loved ones and friends, surrounded by God's people in Novena church.

There was a HUGE life size Nativity being erected just beside the church. Very nice and very big!!

Blame my sucky HP camera for not capturing a nicer shot! Argg!!!

Before mass, we met up early and had dinner at Velocity aka Novena Square. Went to this restaurant called the "Magic Wok" or something at level 3. Cheap and not bad. Total of 9 of us and we only spent less than $74!! And we had so much food, Thai Pineapple rice, veg, prawns, sotong, tom yam soup. So stuffed out after that!!

Best of all, we were given a little cozy corner where we can see the whole of the restaurant. It was made to look like a cottage kind of feeling. Nice and comfortable!

We had the whole corner to ourselves and we all just sat there and yakked and laughed. Think we made the most noice!! hahaa.. But it felt good to be catching up with each other. Though we see each other in church often but it's not the same coz there isn't time to do the same kind of fellowship before or after mass.

Isn't it nice and peaceful looking? There were even 'grapevines' and 'lantern' hanging down from the structure. Quite nice hor?

Also went for coffee after mass at the kopitiam opp the church with the same bunch of people.

Luckily, we still managed to get a bus home even though it was soooo late. I must say our transport system is good, they extend the working hours. Poor drivers and all.. got to work so much harder because of us!

Managed to reach home at close to 2am. Settled down and blog this.

What were you doing when 2007 crept in? And who were you with?

Ours was a peaceful, blessful and holy countdown. Spent with loved ones in the house of God. =)