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. =)

This is our FIRST time!

This is our FIRST time getting an invite such as this! It's not an invite to some retro party ok, it's an invite to a WEDDING!

Hahahaha!!! To be honest, I dare not lor. I will not dare to take photos in something from this era.... I think I will look horrible. But Kit from BC has done not too bad a job for Eugene and Sam, judging from this picture.

I guess, it's gonna be a fun wedding. There will be a prize for the best dressed person somemore. Feels as though I'm gng for some kind of party rather than a wedding mass in church. Hahahaah...

Must salute E&S for having such an innovative way to celebrate their wedding.

Now, time to go and buy some retro outfits for this occassions! ;P

Ahh... Cool!

After setting up the study room, we decided that the room is in need of ventaliation. Not that there's no window but when we are working late into the night, like now, we cannot be possibly opening ALL the windows right?

Scully, some sudden people come up to our room and gave me a fright how? Or worse!!! Some insects or don't know what thing come in how? Me is super frightened lor.

We went to J8 for dinner not knowing where else to go and had KFC. *sinful*sinful* Walked into Best Denki. Saw the TEAC, it was on promotion lei. $299 instead of $399 and it IS the set that I've been eyeing for sometime. But hubby and me discussed and felt that it was not necessary so.. din get that even though there was a $100 discount. Looked at the pots and pans, nothing caught our eyes since we seldome cook. Then since we needed a fan, looked at it also. But still nothing though there were some that was on promotion. We walked around and actually did not manage to get anything at all. So disappointing.

Took a toilet break and along came a bright spark, dragged hubby into NESS coz I badly needed some clothes for work and also for CNY. Partly coz they were sporting a sale and I saw the 40%, 50% before anything. So needless to say, CANNOT miss it lor. Immediately, I already 2 skirts and a few tops that I wanna try.

After waiting for a good 20 mins for me to try and all, hubby realised that I am the proud owner of a pink skirt with box pleats and a black top.

I tried on more than 6 pieces, but well cutting and the size does not suit me after all. So end up, only have these 2.

Not quite ready to face CNY with these 2, I swear I WILL GO for more shopping trips within the next 2 months!!!! =P

We passed by the atria and saw that there were some household itmes on sale and we saw fans too. In need of one, we took second and third looks.
Finally, we got one.

To lugg it home on the bus... No joke! Heavy!!!

Though the blessed box says ">7Kg" but try lugging it from Level 2 of J8 to the bus interchange, to onto the bus, to down the bus, to up the stairs, (2 flights of them) and then into the house?! Wah lau...

Of course, hubby will be THE person doing the assembling. I've got other things to do... like, BLOGGING, taking Photos and updating lar!!!

Poor hubby had to to the lugging, so in order to prepare him for the long and tiring journey home... we (or rather I, decided to bring him for a treat to sweeten him up before doing any hard work!) went for a treat in Haagen Dazs. My second visit to their outlets. Coz I had a Citibank voucher so will go else, I hardly step foot into them. Too expensive I feel.

But it was nice. We had their new "Chocolate Journey" which is served with a tiny cup of hot Belgium Chocolate, 3 different flavours of chocolate ice cream! All things chocolately. I LIKE!!!! Hubby had a cup of Cappuccino. And we topped everything off with ice water. hahah. Nice place to sit and just relax. But must say hor, the hot belgium chocolate is abit disappointing. Tasted like milo with "nuah" (over soaked) chocolate biscuits bits.

Having had the treat, we headed home and met our poly friend on the bus. Chatted throughout the bus ride home... and the moment we reached home.. Blogging and msn-ing (of course include in bathing) is what I've been doing since that time.

P.s. Think my photo montash skills is getting better! hahaha.. darn proud!

Woo Hoo!!

Remember I was saying that we were waiting for Ikea to deliver our stuff? The original time was between 2pm-5pm. Surprisingly, they gave a call to hubby early this morning, (when were still IN bed) and said that the delivery will be made between 11am - 2pm!

Woah... much earlier lei. Lucky, we din go to watch the "golden flower" else sure miss the delivery! But then again, since they called us and advaned the delivery, we think it's also coz there isn't much people who bought bukly items and need delivery services. Who will at this time anyway... After Christmas and CNY is not for another 2 months and the sales for CNY has not even begun anyway.

After all the items were delivered, hubby and I set to work. NOT easy in asembling all these things lei! We worked non stop for at least 2 hours just on fixing the cupboards the table LEGS! We had to re-do the cupboards coz the measurement was slightly off.

We decided to try to buy an electric screwdriver or drill when we needed to fix the tables. There are 5 screws to each leg, making a grand total of 60 threadless nails to be screwed in! VERY hard work and we took a break here. Went to the coffee shop for lunch and also looked around for the equipment.

Too bad for hubby, we cannot find any. Poor hubby got to then manually screwed in each and every single nail.

Just after we got home, I got a surprise from Tri. She sent me a sms and within minutes of me replying her, she appeared with her newphew and neice just as I was opening the window! I saw the kids first and was like... these 2 kids very familiar, where have I seen them before and then I looked up and saw Tri! WAH! Got a shock! I never expect her to come with the 2 children.

She passed me my Christmas present and something she bought in KL for me. Very curious as to what it was, coz Tri's neice, Qian told me, "Ah Yee made it herself." My first thought was food... coz I know Tri likes to play around in the kitchen.

When I opened the present. Wah!! Touched lei!!!

She made a skirt JUST FOR ME, H-E-R-S-E-L-F! Immediately I tried the skirt on and showed it to hubby. He says nice! =) Will be sure to take a picture of it when I wear it the next time. And it fitted perfectly ok! Woah!!!

Black skirt for Christmas done by Tri, herself!

She got me this cute bear from KL.

Thank You so much, Tri!!! I like it very much. So touched. Also got a card. The words on the card warmed my heart lots too!

Back to the Ikea things (while I was enjoying my new presents, hubby was still hard at work...) finally after all those hours, Me, standing at the side and played with the legs and erm... gave encouragements to hubby while he continuing the fight with the screws... finally it's done!

Ta DAAAAA!!

I'm typing this virgin entry from my new study desk!

I'm occupying the left hand corner. Hubby will take the right hand corner. The big table in the middle is for both of us. At the moment the table looks neat and tidy. Not sure for how long, we can maintain it this way though. I seem to be having more space coz both our bicycles are at my corner, so had to give me more space if not, sure kena "JAMMED!". BTW, the 'scorpion' looking thing is the "power rider" that we had no place to house it. It is now relgated to under the table.

New bookcase!

And, our new bookcase. No covers to it, so it can get rather dusty. Plenty of cleaning to be done then.

Quite obvious which side of the bookcase is mine right?! I was telling hubby, maybe we should get a bean bag and throw it at where the excerise ball is. Makes quite a good and cozy reading corner doesn't it?

And for the record, ALL the furniture in this current room are furnised by Ikea! The 3 tables, the 2 bookcase, the 2 black chairs and even the drawer set!

Was joking with hubby, if we buy anymore, we can probably make this room into a show room for Ikea! hahahahaha

Quite happy with all these new things. Now, we have our desk and no longer need to hunch over the tablet when I'm using it anymore!!

Eagerly waiting...

Hubby and I are getting excited as the minutes ticked by...

Course... The Ikea things we paid and ordered will be here in another few hours time! We only paid for delivery and not the assembling part.

So after the grand delivery in a few hours, hubby and me will set to work in assembling the tables and cupboards.

I wanted to go and watch "Curse of the Golden Flower" earlier but the show was at 9.30pm and we cannot make it. Was thinking of going to watch the morning show tomorrow but it was at 11am and hubby says 50%, we cannot wake up, the next show is at 1.30pm and we cannot go coz we have to wait for delivery. So, likely, we will miss the show, since we want to be cheapskates and not pay for the full price. hahah... see how la.

Hubby says after the assembly, after clearing up the mess we created from the DIY, we shall sit down to work out our plans for next year. Things like, "where do we want to go next year", "our study plans", "financial plans" amongst other things.

But I'm super happy with the "where to go next year bit" hahaha..

I think Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea are all nice places to start off with! Especially HK in Aug! And this was exactally what I told hubby! His reply to my "HK in Aug"?

"Very happy hor, shopping in HK in Aug? U no need to study hor?" -_-"

=(

A day of Food.

Hubby and me was thinking of what and where to go to spend our day. And I suggested either East Coast or Vivo. I was kind of craving for the lazy afternoons spent in cozy cafes and I know that East Coast has a few of such cafes. Vivo, there's also Pacific Cafe that I can go for their chocolate paradise and just people watch.

Hubby picked Vivo since it looked to be a rainy day. And then with a stroke of ingenuity, I suggested lunch at "Superdog". I saw it last Friday when I went there for lunch with Trina but since I abstain from meat on Fridays, had to give it a miss. But since we are going there today, must give it a try!!! I had chili beef bacon dog and hubby had the set of onions beef I think. I was not feeling particularly hungry and we decided to just take a set and 2 various burgers and we can share the sides.

The food is not bad. But rather pricy I feel. Hmmm... the sides are nice though, I like the fries. =) But compare to Botak Jones, hmmm... this is pricier and somehow not as good I feel.
And they printed a "Hotdog Etiquette" which also serves as the brochure. And it is quite funny.

Take a read if you are there!

My personal favourite?
A hotdog should be eaten in not more than 5 bites except for foot longs.

So, girls, it's OK for us to eat with no regards to our image when eating hotdogs!

But then again, if you are on a first date, unless ur man is a sport jock, you better don't try too... or unless you hope your first date is also your LAST date!! hahahaha...

Walked around and we bought these from Daiso. Snacks and household items.

More like plastic bags to shrink fit our big and bulky items. Don't know if it's useful but at least we tried lor.

If it works then we would have manage to save some of our cupboard space. I heard from Ah Teck that shop and safe has good quality ones.

Well, see how it goes.

I saw the TV program last night and it intro Vivo. So I sort of made Hubby walked round to find all the shops that was on TV. hahaha... I found the sky gardens and also the large Pet shop. Nice lei. Inside got so many small puppies and hamsters! So cute!!! If not for the fact that I'm a lousy pet owner, I would have bought home either a puppy or a hamster!!! So cute and so nice!!! SOOOOOO adorable!!!!!!

Besides going into Daiso to get somethings, there isn't much else for us to get. Wanted to show hubby the COACH bags but Tangs don't carry it. So far, I only know that Taka has a boutique carrying it, can't seem to find it anywhere else =(

We went for tea at Pacific Cafe again. But I tried their Ginger latte... erm... put it this way, still prefer their Chocolate Paradise. Nicer lor. haha... Will stick to that from now on! We stayed quite some time there lei. Just sit there and sip our coffee and chit chat. Best of all, it was still raining, so though we sat outside, it was not hot nor warm at all. In fact, it was cool and when the doors opened, we felt cold coz of the cold air! Nice!!!

We passed by the noodle shop while having lunch and we made our way back to the store. According to hubby, he says the Ke Lo mee is a very special mee that orginated from Sarawak. So since we are so near to such a store, of course must go and try lor!

Hmmm... price is slightly on the high side. But I feel, the ingredients that is given made up for the price. There's plenty of char siew, 4 wantons, 2 prawns and a bowl of soup that comes with each portion of noodles. Not bad. I like their chili. Not that spicy but it was good! The char siew is also tender and not fatty. But, the most important is the Mee. THE main ingredient. It looks kind of normal, looks like maggie mee. But when you eat it, it's springy w/o the noodles kind of taste. Nice.
May or may not go back again, since there's so many other kind of food waiting for me to try. If I've tried all and still prefer this, will definately go back lor.

But, it's worth a try if you have not tried it before!

Post Christmas!

Pouring since last night!

And it was a cold, snugglily morning and that's exactally what hubby and I did! We lazed till after 11am before we were able to pull ourselves out of bed! (Thank God I'm on leave!) But actually made us wake up was Wise's good news. Hahah... Congratulations again, Babe!

Rustled up some food to fill our stomachs and then we went for our proper lunch at the coffeeshop. =) Have been eating too much meat for the last few days and decided to pick more veggies for lunch instead.

Then we slowly made our way to Ikea, I realised I have to put the branch now with the Tampinese branch opened. We went to Ikea ALEXENDRA. (again!) We desperately needed tables to make it more effective and definitely more COMFORTABLY for me to blog, msn and do do my studies next year *which is a few more days.

All I wanted was the tables and legs. But somehow, when you have nothing else to buy, you end up buying even more? Yups, it happened again. The moment we stepped in, hubby was attracted to this shelf that was on displayed.

After discussing and measuring and imagining on where, how and all, we decided to get it.

So all in all, we got 2 boookshelves, 12 planks for the shelves, 2 pairs of crossbars, 3 tables (1 bigger in Birch, the other 2 in white), 12 table legs (4 in white and 8 in silver) 1 pair of bookends and 4 paper files. All in, we are now broker by another $350. Don't ask me where on earth we are going to put all into the current bedroom that is stuffed with 2 bicycles and a stationery exercise bike.

Shall take a pic of the room after it's done.

We were ambitious to want to carry it back in a cab with us. But after just taking from the stacks to the trolley to the cashier, we knew we had to do a home delivery.

So, these are coming in this Friday afternoon. And after that, we will be busy with setting it up and cleaning up of the house.

Abit excited now.

And after all the feasting for the past few days, we gave the famous meatballs and chicken wings a miss. Instead, we had coffee and shared a sliced of cheescake while debating on the colours of the legs and shelves! hahaha And I was just teasing hubby that how come after a year that we are married we are still looking an buying furniture for our house?!

Hubby gave me a very 'clever' reply. Coz it's for study room lor.

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas or NOT?!

My family in law came over for dinner today. The whole family came and also OBIL's GF came. Surprisingly, I felt quite comfortable with her. We din really have a lot of chance to talk but when we do talk it was quite ok. She's still as quiet and shy as before but we are now on "smiling" more to each other and "small talk".

But I am very V-E-R-Y pissed!!!

Why?!

First, (ok, this is my fault), PIL commented on the fault. I noticed they are not used to the food I've prepared. I had the oven baked wings, ribs and ham from NTUC, then potatoe salad, a green salad and as the main course, pasta with corn and chicken soup. FIL went on to say he tried pasta at don't know where and then say not nice and all. I just kept quiet. Well, old people, maybe really not used to the food that I prepared. But I mentally made up my mind that if I asked them over for dinner again, I will prepare more suitable food.

Anyway, went on eating and YBIL began chewing his food very loudly and he has the cheek to ask, "I chew my food so loudly, you all don't find me irriating meh?" I was stumped! FIL then laughingly told him, since he knows why do it? Hubby told him, says he knows still do it. YBIL replied, "I was trying to test your limits."

TMD!!!!!!

That's not all ok!

That idiot then went on to lie on my sofa after hubby and FIL sat on it. He occupy the rest of the available spaces then! I cannot believe my FIL, even when YBIL propped his feet on FIL, he din say anything! COME ON LOR, this is not HIS house. MY HOUSE and he behave like this?! Wah lau!!!!

Hubby told him to sit properly, he sat up. Then went to my dining bench and lie down! And his response to hubby when hubby told him to sit properly again?

"What you want me to do?! You don't let me lie on the sofa, I lie here also cannot?!"

TMD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The cheek of that idiot!

My house and he behaves like that and makes it sounds as though as it's our fault?! DAMN!!!

Merry Christmas or what?!

Wah lau!

And to think that we kind of rush through lunch after mass in J8 so that we can go home to prepare food for them! What a waste of my efforts!!!!

This will be the first and last time that we invite them to come over!!!