Finally. New Locks!

sheesh... I've been asking Hub to change the locks of the house or to secure it properly to the metal gate.

The metal lock's bracket is too big for the gate so it was always moving and sliding along. I've been having problems with it for a long time. And the lock on the wooden door was misaligned for a long long time. And hub just din bother coz his key no problem mine has!

So finally after the tenant shifted out, on the reason that we cannot be sure that she has not duplicated another set of keys, we SHOULD and MUST change the locks.

It took me another 1 month of nagging to finally get Hub to move.

And he still did not.

I can't take it anymore and I called our renovation contractor and he told me easy thing la. Just change the lock. He'll fix it for us. Bring hub to buy and then fix for us.

YAY!!!

So on Saturday, he came, took out the lock, brought hub with him to Geylang (I think) while I stayed home to guard the house waiting for them to come back.

All was done within 2 hours!

It looked so easy for him to do it lor.

Come, take out lock, bring lock to shop, get a new one, come back, Fix.

He also fixed the store room door lock for us at the same time. I'm happy.

I just don't understand why Hub forever have to wait for me to loose my temper before he finally moves. *sigh*

I also don't want to nag him lei. But tell him nicely, he don't want to listen and keep insisting that the tenant will NOT have a duplicate. How come he so sure lei? Just to be on the safe side ma. No?

Then have to wait for me to loose my temper, argue with him, then he happy and ok lor. change.

Cannot take it.

Anyway, the wooden door's lock change. The store room's lock changed too. And coz I was complaining that the metal lock does not sit nicely on the gate, after mass last evening, we went to home fix DIY and he got 2 metal rings and secure it.

So now, I FINALLY have my locks sitting nicely and changed! At the expense of $100. A little heart pain yes. But I feel safer now though.

Almost 4 years to get it done.

U say can die or not?!

*SIGH*

Mooncake Festival!

The Lunar Eight Month has arrived!

I'm glad. So. VERY. glad that it's finally the 8th month. Not coz of anything, but hey! No more burnings at the void decks! No more additional smoke caused by our own local people! No more dirty footprints, no more strays roaming around for leftover food!

YAY!!!

Best of all, mooncakes are here! Not that I am a fan. I don't particularly like mooncakes. In fact, there's only 2 kinds that I eat.

Yam or Durian.

The rest. Thanks by no thanks. I truly don't know how to appreciate these small round/square expensive little of whatever-sar in them things.

I've always like Crown Prince, Orh Nee (Yam) mooncakes... but after Crown Prince closed down, don't know where to get them anymore. But this year, my girlie told me it's now available from Peony Jade. The 4 chefs of Crown Prince went to them and hence, I've been on a quest to look for Peony Jade.

I finally found it at NTUC, AMK HUB.

My first box of mooncakes this year.Peony Jade - Crispy skin Orh Nee Mooncakes!

No egg yolk. (Those with egg yolks have a red dot on it)I don't know how to appreciate that golden 'moon' inside something sweet as well. And since, its meant for my own consumption, I don't need to get it with yolk. It's already sinful enough without that 'moon'.

This 4 pc of yummies just cost me $39! That's almost $10 a piece. But oh well... once a year, and I do like it. Heart pain pain buy and savor 1 box lor.

All in, I will need to get another 2 boxes of some mooncakes. Parents and parents in law. My family likes orh nee mooncakes as well but Peony Jade only has it in 4 pc... my family prefer the 8 pc kind so that they (or rather mom) can split up the box and offer it to the deities and ancestors.

I don't exactly know which kind my in laws like. The dilemma is I know FIL likes mixed nuts, but MIL is diabetic and have high BP... I try to get those low-er sugar ones for her. But 2 boxes would be too much... so, I guess, I shall just go for something that's low in sugar. After all, there's only 4 of them in the household now, if I were to get them 2 boxes, OBIL would be getting a box and I'm pretty sure PIL will also get a box, then there's like 4 boxes!

Way tooooo sinful for 2 old folks and 2 young and healthy men nevertheless!

Sweet Hubby

Last night, after getting my marked TMA back from the blackboard and realized that I flunked it, I was depressed.

And I told myself, I WILL finish reading the last chapter before turning in. Such was my anger at my own stupidity for failing.

Hubby was at this moment, watching "Blood Diamond" on channel 5. The show ended at 1am and he decided to go to bed. Knowing that I failed, he encouraged me to concentrate and do well for the next 2 upcoming TMAs and he went to bed first.

I finally finished reading the notes at 1.40am or so and I went into the bedroom. There, I saw light emitting from the bed. Curious, I called out if he was sleeping. He replied not yet. He was waiting for me.

Knowing how blind I become after lights off, he recently placed this hand powered torch near the bed... and he will light up the way for me after lights off!

That's so sweet of him, isn't it?!

And today, my tenant shifted out. Her room is in a mess, dirty and dusty. Sweet hub volunteered to clean up the room all by himself, but I helped out a little by vacuuming the room and he mopped and clean up.

Watching him work, I really feel so blessed that I have a hub who helps out in chores and takes pride in doing it well.

Lastly, ever since, I told him that I like to be kissed on my forehead as it makes me feel so secured and loved, he has been doing it. Twice Daily! Once before we part for work in the morning and another before we sleep.

awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww......

I just feel so loved and blessed!
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Don't mind me... I just need to 'haolian' about my sweet hub la.

Crab dinner

Crab dinner at Uncle Leong.

My favorite Creamy Butter crab!Ordered a "Gold Dust" something something too.. but not that good lei.

I guess, we have more or less tried almost everything crab dish on the menu and my conclusion is in future, instead of ordering a creamy small crab, I shall ordered just a medium / large size butter crab to go with the man tous for dinner for Hub and I.

Till the next crab meal!

I shall drool for now....

we "morphed" too!

I saw this on Haze's blog for sometime ago and have been wanting to try but I can't get some decent front unblocked shots of ourselves!

Finally after searching through my HP and Camera, I got these 2 shots!And the result is.... Quite cute right? And I think looks more like a girl!

whahahaha...

Photo entry

Finally managed to upload the pics from HP and camera into the PC for last week!

Dinner @ Shokudo with the SW Gang. Part of Hub's and my dinner.Some chicken with rice covered in eggs. Not bad.

We prefer the pizza actually, but we were both too hungry and just ate without taking any pics. There was a 1-for-1 promotion that day too. Very worth!

And a pic of our darling God-daughter! My my, she has grown so much!!

She was looking at Godpa (I think) when this shot was taken. No longer has the baby face, now is really a toddler, and very girly too!

And on Monday, when we took a day's leave.

Katong on a Super Duper Hot Day! Very pretty and colorful Paranakan Building.Hub said, "Must take a pic then can show that we're here, you know!" Ok.ok. So I took...for him standing outside Aston where we just had lunch.

Then we went to Vivo to hang out for the rest of the day.

Super glaring, that's why hub can't even keep his eyes open!Here we are sitting at the un air-conditioned portion of The Pacific Coffee.He had the chocolate paradise and I had the berry something.

Surprisingly, even though it was sooo hot, it was rather breezy and we just sat there to laze, ang mo watched.

too many things to update!

I have too many things to blog about but so little time and with my final term starting next week, I've not really sorted thru my notes and things to get myself ready.. I'm feeling too lethargic to start to do anything too.

So, a summary of all the key events...

We went for Harry Potter new movie on Thursday... and I'm sooo sooo sooo disappointed. It's definitely the WORST Potter movie ever. I regretted staying up and being so excited over this movie.

Anyway, just for the record, I've collected my notes from SIM on Friday, 17 July. The original plan was to meet Hub for dinner at Ikea. The silly guy pissed me off sooooooo much that the whole evening was spoilt.

I had rushed to go to SIM, pick up notes and then rushed to meet him at Queenstown MRT.

I told him a total of 3,4 times, Queenstown MRT. In the morning, before I left office to go to SIM, when I reached SIM and after I collected my notes.

The guy had to call me (less than 10 mins later) when I was feeling the hottest, the stickiest, the rushiest and feeling the most agitated while handling 1 box of notes in my hand while the rest were stuffed into my bag and asked me "Which MRT har?"

I swear I could have screamed then and there.

Yes. That was the limit. And yes. I got so pissed that we din speak to each other for the whole evening.

And yes. We have made up that night. But that's another episode of our marriage life.

piangs.. why can't men just listen and then get the info INTO the head?

Sigh....

But on hindsight now, I do agree with the Hub that I could have been less angry and just accepted his apologies and we could have had a nice evening in Ikea instead of a wasted evening.

This man. He never fails to amaze me with his sudden deep insights on our marriage.

Anyway on Sat, we met up with Victor & Family, Clement & family for dinner at Shokudo. Food's not bad. We just chatted the night away.

The 2 toddlers have grown so much and they are both so cute. Not talking much yet, but I think the time will be here soon. I think the parents will be going crazy with their endless why.

Sunday, we rested in the day and then we went cycling.

It's been too long since I last exercise. Less than 30 mins later into cycling, I felt faint. Literally faint. Things start to look blur in front of me, heart was thumping way too fast and I could hear buzzing in my ears.

What can I say?

I'm weak. So. very. weak.

Come Monday.. Ah.. This a day I trully enjoyed.

The Hub and I took leave. We purposely traveled all the way down to Katong for the famous egg skin popiah. But the shop was CLOSE!!!!

SOOOOOOOOO disappointed!

No choice, we had Aston for lunch then slowly made our way to Vivo.

Walked and chat and laugh and ang mo watched at Pacific Coffee while sipping and enjoying our chilled drinks.

Though we did not do a lot nor anything exciting... The most exciting got to be buying 2 items at Diaso I guess or maybe deciding what to eat for lunch/dinner?

I don't really care. But it was really good quality time spent together.

The free and ease of going anywhere we want, with no time constraint and nothing to rush to. Just to enjoy each other, chat and laugh.

I felt as though we've gone back to the early dating days and the feeling is so good. I think I fell in love with Hub all over again after that day.

Oh... the surprising thing is, as we walked over to Harbor Front, we even bump into the contractor who renovated our house for us. And it's a good thing that we met him. He changed his hp number! And I've been recommending him to my friends who needs a contractor.

As I sit here to type this, I'm still basking and reeling in from the 1 day leave and time spent with Hub.

Suddenly, this week don't seem as blue and definitely much much shorter and not to say so much more enjoyable and fun!

I certainly hope the feeling is mutual and that the Hub enjoyed it as much as I did. I think he did coz that very night, he said "I think we should do this again after your exams in Nov. It's so relaxing and good for us."

^.^

Super clever lor.

Damn Pissed off.

Why is it every single time, you can only do as you are told and not a single step more?

ARGH!!!!!!

When will you ever learn to be more active around the house?

Do I really have to list down every single bloody step before something can be done?!

I really really think that you are driving me closer to my graveyard!

ARGH!!!!!

Different smelling sense

I've already forgotten this incident, but this morning, I suddenly remembered and thought I'll do my memory justice and blog about it.

Some weeks back, Taka was having their sale and the Hub and I went.

I showed him the gorgeous Juicy Couture shop at Level 4 and then proceed to drag him to Level 1 to show him the fragrance that I was lemming for.

He took a whiff, made a face and commented that it smells too sweet and a tad familiar. Just that he cannot recall what it reminded him off. But the general comment was, "Not nice." Um.... "not nice" being the polite way of saying.

After putting some distance between the over-enthusiastic SA and us, a few Indian / Myanmar nationalities walked past. The Hub was busy making many other comments, most of which I’ve forgotten now but 1 comment came back to me this morning.

“It reminds me of those scent that they (*eye signals to the group that just walked past) wear!!”

I was incredulous! The scent, granted is sweet, very vanilla maybe and too flowery. But I did like it!

The Hub after making the association, laughed and laughed and laughed. Infected by him, I burst out laughing too.

His final comment?

“Don’t tell people you are my wife if you wear THAT scent out.”

On hindsight, minus the pretty bottle, I honestly don’t really like the scent as much as I did.

Ha!

After this hilarious incident, I know for sure, there is no way that I’m going to get this pretty little thing anymore.

My latest lemming for fragrance is the Pure White Linen Pink Coral (Eau de Parfum Spray) by Estee Lauder. Which, apparently won the Hub’s nose and his approval.

He likes my previous Pure White Linen (L) and current Pleasures (R) both fragrances from Estee. Think his nose quite atas, Estee.

I think I shall keep it safe and stick to Estee… else I may honestly be given the ultimatum and really have to declare to people “nah… I’m not his wife.”

Cute Girl

Was having dinner at Prata House after mass last night (Sat) and when we were halfway thru our dinner, a mother came in and sat in front of us with 4 of her children.

The youngest of which was seated in her pram and was eating a banana.

She kept looking over to us and when when we smiled at her, she smiles back! So cute and pretty! Then I sat on my seat and shake my head and body a little, she followed suit!

I was having a good time playing with her, hubby too and we each snap a few shots of her. She's so cute. Big eyes and so friendly! I really want a girl just like that too!

I think she has mixed blood, her siblings all look a little Eurasian and Asian. The mom seems to be Philippino, the white kind. Whoever the daddy is, the children all look pretty and handsome. 2 boys and 2 girls. Such a perfect combination!

We went to NTUC and bought some groceries, some of which will be our lunch for tomorrow or lunches for the coming week. Frozen processed food, I know it's not healthy to be eating those often but to bring to work, these would be the most convenient.

This was my any-how cooked lunch for today (Sunday).Udon with veggies, corn, crabmeat, Japanese fishcake in Ikan Bilis (Diaso) & Mushroom broth.

To my surprise, my tenant came out and commented "Nice smell! What you cooking?"

And to my absoulte delight, the food turned out nice! I was expecting it to be very blend coz I did not use any other seasoning and Udon can be very blend!

We ate it all, soup and every single thing in the pot.

Next time, I shall experiment more and see if I can do other kind of 1-dish meals. So simple and save effort in cooking and washing since there's very little things to wash!

Foodie Post

Just some pics of yummy food that we have had...

Beef something something @ Coffee Club Express within Kinokuniya in Taka.Blackberry coffee.I like it that it has jelly bits in it as well.

Was craving for Korean food and hence, to reward myself, we went for a Korean dinner on the day I got my grades...

Refillable sidesWe like the toufu, potatoe salad and cucumber best. The rest, not fantastic.

SoupThere's seafood and lots of toufu in it. We requested for less spicy since Hub can't take spicy things well.

FishNot bad la... But I have tasted better ones in Thomson Plaza Food court.

BimbimbabNormal.

High Tea

Had high tea buffet with my 2 sisters, mom and Hubby earlier today at Lao Beijing @ Novena Square.

Service was not bad, not much crowd and food was ample. Some of the items on the menu were on the buffet table while the rest were served when we place orders.

The various dumplings and noodles had to be ordered but for a start, each of the dumplings will be served without us having to order and we can re-order as much as we like. But we did not. There are plenty of other things to be eaten and we had our fill.

The only item that we could have 1 serving each is this...

Self wrapped Popiah.

On the menu, it's call "special popiah" or something to that effect.

Erm... the only special is that we got to self wrap lor. What others so special? Nothing what.

Each of us only can have ONE serving, so I told my sisters, mom and hubby that we have to take a pic of our creation before eating BUT hub's popiah was already in his stomach, hence, there's only 4 popiahs on picture.

Clockwise, Top left, Mom's, Youngest Sis, Middle Sis and lastly mine.

We all had a good laugh over our popiahs. Mine's flat and fat! Mom's looks the best.

Of course mine will look flat and fat... look at the liow in mine!

BOUNTIFUL!

We went to Plaza Singapura later on and I bought loads of Japanese condiments that will go with rice, good for those days when I'm too lazy to go to the market and we are too lazy to go out to eat too.

Various Japanese condiments for our choosing, includes a miso soup base somewhere in there.

Of course, I know its not healthy to be eating all these too frequently. So I shall space it out. These are really so convenient for those mornings when we decide to bring our lunch.. just cook rice and pour this on! Or just bring a sachet and do it when we are ready for lunch.

In addition to these, hubby was walking around and he found this.

Knob replacements! Hence, instead of spending more on a kettle, he found the knobs which he can use on the kettle lid.

To give a general idea.... this is how my kettle lid looks like now.

SEE! I wasn't exaggerating when I said my lid was in 3 pieces!

The bad news is, the screw on the knob is too big.... Hubby spent at least 20 mins expanding the hole on the lid. The knob finally fitted BUT, my kettle will no longer whistle.

That flab that is making the whistle is just too difficult to fit in... so either we spend more $ or we live with the non-whistling now.

I guess, since the kettle has no hole underneath and can still serves its fundamental purpose of being a kettle, i.e. to hold water to be boiled, then we shall keep it.

It IS the economic recession after all, though it certainly DON'T look that way when we were in PS.