nOt In the mOod

Totally not in a very good mood today. Don't know why. I think it's PMS causing it. You know, having mood swings. One moment, you can be very happy. Really happy at that instant. The next moment, it's gloomy feelings. And worse of it all, I am having carbos craving. Went out to Parkway Parade after dinner just now. And guess what, I ordered?......

Went Pasta Mania and ordered Marinuana (i don't know how to spell but it's the one with prawn, squid and mussels). The portion there was huge! And I polished off 90% of it. Ee... i find it too disgusting. But that was my comfort food. I shall stop this eating behavior from tomorrow onwards! I can feel my face getting rounder. Tummy getting fatter. Argh... I hope the menses will come soon to ease all these feelings!

Meanwhile, I either watch "My Ye-man Nai-nai" or read my book to keep me sane.

Actually got lotsa things to update. But WTH.... hee... a new acroynm I learnt from our IA student. For those who don't know, it's WHAT THE HECK!

Ok, I hope my positivity will come back and I will get on to updating my longgest shopping record on Thurs => Shopped for 10 HOURS! Not to mention a horrible start in the morning (summon). I shall rem to elaborate on this.

I got to attend a wedding lunch buffet with my mum tomorrow and I really don feel like going. argh... don't even know who is the bride n groom. GoD, Pls Give Me Some PoSitIvE viBeS!!!!

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Christmas Dinner @ Grand Copthorne Waterfront

We inside Cafe Brio! Only started taking pics after having our fill. haha... we skipped lunch on 23rd as we attended Audrey's wedding dinner the day before.

My gift to Allan (the one wrapped up in green) and the one infront is from him. It's my fav Korean show "Full House" fm him. This Xmas, I got alot of presents fm him. Thanks dear for the thoughts!

My Christmas presents from colleagues and friends!

We decided to celebrate Christmas on 23rd Dec so that we could spend actual Christmas Eve with family. Allan booked the International & Seafood buffet @ Cafe BRIO. Our 1st time there.

The buffet was delicious. I especially like the Barbecued King Prawn. I'm a prawn lover so that became my main target. hiak hiak... of course, that's sashimi, steam garoupa, cold crab & prawn. Allan kept off oyster after the last food poisoning incident caused by oyster. The ham was very nice too!

Ambience is nice. there was a nice band at the drinking area which was linked to the cafe. So I was enjoying the music while eating. So this place is recommended if you wanna have some buffet.

I must write down one of my surprise moment and that is when I gave Allan his Christmas card. He was very touched and his eyes were teary when he saw that. I didn't know it would turn out like tat. He really liked the card alot! =))

Xiaobai who was sleeping so soundly that I couldn't resist taking a pic of him. hehe...

My cousin: Audrey's wedding on 22 Dec

Allan drank quite a few glasses of red wine. Can you see it?

My Parents & Me.

Sis & Me

The one seated in the middle is my mum's youngest sister. Beside her are her kids. Jenevie (12yrs old) and Justin (14 yrs old).

Didn't manage to catch a good pic of the bride. There was about 50+ tables @ Shangri-La so you can imagine how big the whole ballroom is.

Happy Boxer's Day! A Rainy Morning....

Today is a wet Boxer's Day! It had been raining since last night. We switched off the air-con, slept with the windows open so that we can listen to the rain pattering outside. Thank god I didn't have to go to work today. Not doing anything in particular today. Lotsa Post-Christmas sales... Robinsons, Tangs, etc. But not in the shopping mood. Anyway, we had spent quite some $$$ this month.

What I intend to do Today:
- Pick MIL up fm Airport with FIL. MIL is finally coming back today from Taiwan! (She went for 11 days trip). Kinda missed her. never hear her voice for so long! Aw... =)
-Read my book. It's called "Two's company" by Jill Mansell. Bought it @ Borders during 20% discount sometime back. Let me give u my comments after reading it!

Christmas had passed. Was busy dining, spending time with families, singing karaoke... haha... We went to buy a DVD player with karaoke function on Sunday. Bought mike, some karaoke discs and started singing yesterday. Thanks to Beau who started all these. hee...

I'm just gonna chill out in my room today, playing the jazz music. With the accompany of Xiaobai. hmm... life is so relaxing!

Note: I will go into some snapshots of the past few days for the next blog....

What A Fun Night!

Jenn & Mich. Jenn looked so stylo with her boots!

















Jenn & Me



















Jenn with the "Tu-tu kueh" ! haha...















A gift from Jenn! Thanks dear for the surprise! You never fail to surprise us... =)














The Chocolate Munchy Cake fm Pacific Coffee! Yummy! Chocolate lovers must try this out! I like the creamy layer on top! It's a big portion too. I'm feeling FAT after eating this cake. Gosh! And much more eating to follow, I think my waistline is getting thicker liao. Argh!










Mich & Jenn@ Pacific Coffee

What a fun evening I had! Mich and I met up with Jenn @ Vivocity for dinner and catch up. It's been a long time since I last met Jenn which was my wedding. haha..

We had Bak Kuteh @ Food Republic. The portion of the pork rib is huge! It was shiok drinking the soup on a cold evening! We then went Pacific Coffee for drinks, cake and ice-cream! The Cafe Latte over there is good! Highly Recommended!

We really talked alot and laughed so much throughout the whole conversation. Lotsa catching up to do! 3 hours just flew past swiftly.

Let's meet up soon! Cos I'm starting to miss u gals liao!

Nitez...

Counting Down to the End of the Working Year!

In a Pretty Good Mood now because the work week is coming to an end soon! Most people in my company are busy clearing leave, etc. Me? Have been in holiday mood since Monday! Haha... What to do? The annual shut-down is always an exciting time cos I will have a LOOOONG stretch of holidays.

I shall start planning what to do each day. How to make use of the long hols. Getting into a frenzy again when brainstorming. Last year, I went Bangkok. That's all I remembered! I will go back to my past blog and recap. I think basically it's book reading and lazing around.

Just received my Robinson pamplet on their promotions starting on 26-Dec. Contemplating to go shopping. (Again?) erm... sometimes good deals are hard to resist! Saw a dress that I like.... Ok, Self discipline.

Allan is finishing his last RT (Remedial Training) session tomorrow! Yeahie! I will catching up with Jennifer & Michelle tomorrow @ Vivo. Hope we can "chop" the swing @ Pacific Coffee. That place looks so relaxing! Hope to take some pics.

Our team is having our Christmas lunch celebration tomorrow! Then Friday, we will have a gift exchange session. Friday night, my cousin Audrey's wedding dinner @ Shangri La. Come Saturday, Allan & I are going for our Xmas dinner. I am feasting all the way through Xmas. Ho Ho Ho...

A New Meaning...

Didn't realize till today that I had actually been blogging for over a year now! As time passes by, I realize that I had dwindling desire to update my blog. But today I realized it had a meaning. It brought me back to my memories vividly. I went back to last Dec posts to see what I did, celebrated, dine. Brought back lots of fond memories. For those unhappy or angry posts, I didn't even felt like reading them anymore. "It's over and I have moved on," I thought to myself. Is it that I have a bigger heart now? Maybe... But I felt that I wrote those to let off steam @ that point in time. Venting out releases all the tension inside us. And I love those comments! By friends and Allan who never fails to support me.

When I look back to my Dec 2005 pics, I was surprised I wasn't quite used to seeing my jet black straight hair. Found that it looked so boring as compared to now! haha...

Of course last Dec was the beginning of my wedding preparations!!! Now whenever Allan & I attend friends or relatives' wedding dinner, we would somehow be so glad that our Big Day was over and now we are truly a couple. Of course, we enjoyed ourselves on our Big Day and to me, that is the most important aspect on the wedding day.

Saw my past blog posts and saw that I was writing quite alot, "articulate" in a sense as compared to now where it's more of pictures and less things happening. Pondering what is happening. For a while, I found blog updating pretty time-consuming. Another, I found it narccistic. that was when I start to question the purpose of blogging.

Suddenly, I thought maybe I am more settled in with my married life now. Perhaps I am happier now. So less lamenting on life. hee... I shall write on my current focus in life next time.

Allan is back fm his "Prata session" with his brother Charles. I'm gonna turn in soon!

Christmas Dinner Plans...

Looking forward to my Christmas dinner with Allan @ Grand Copthorne Waterfront! Christmas Eve is also going to be our 3 months anniversary. Hehe… I’m planning to go to the Esplanade on Christmas Eve to hear the caroling and soak in the atmosphere!

Been there last Christmas Eve and I love the atmosphere there! Standing there, humming to the caroling, by-standers whom like us are just enjoying ourselves and giving our warm applause after each carol. I can definitely feel the festive joy! Strolling & holding on to Allan’s hands, I feel so happy and blessed that we are together.

I shall see how the atmosphere will be like this year. =)

Xiaobai got a new haircut!

This time round, we didn't ask Adeline(the pet shop owner) to shave Xiaobai. Instead, to leave half an inch of his fur. hehe... think it will look nicer.

There were some more shots which I took in the car after we fetched Xiaobai home. Will upload it some other time.

Xiaobai who is busy licking Allan.It's his way of being affectionate!

Tiffany who really enjoys posing in front of the camera! After which she will say "I see, i see". She wants to see if the picture turns out well too! haha....

A zoomed-up pic of her! I think I took a great shot with this! hehe...

Xmas Gathering with the gals!

Meeting the gals for our Christmas gathering cum Huiqing's birthday celebrations!
We will have a gift exchange each year during Christmas.

For 2007, we had a new plan. That is to draw lots to see who wil be getting whose gifts prior to Christmas. So that when you are buying the gift, you already know who you are getting for in mind.

I shall write it in my blog so that we won't forget it next year. Just in case Sharon changes her hp. We have given her the task of remembering this! haha..

Huiyi -> Huiqing, Huiqing -> Me, Me -> Sharon, Sharon -> Huiyi (if my memory didn't fail me)

Although this is also Qing's birthday celebrations, the main focus was on Qing's 2nd-time mummy topic and we were so busy chatting & updating each other our lives. that I think I sort of forgot about giving her a hug and wishing her Happy Birthday. Nevertheless, we wished her Happy Birthday when we gave her the gifts...

from L to R: Sharon, me, Huiqing, Huiyi (Our usual fav hangout: Coffee Bean)













Huiqing & Huiyi (Inside Crystal jade)














Me and Sharon (While we were at Crystal jade)














Me and Huiqing (Does it looks like it's snowing outside?)















Huiyi and me. A well-taken shot by Sharon! She was making us the focus of the pic. noticed the images of the pple behind us are very blur? =P

Huizhen & Jack Hee's Wedding

Saturday was our uni friend Huizhen & Jack Hee's wedding. Knew them from Year 2 IHPT. The
ambience at Le Meridien was nice! Saw alot of my ex-colleagues from Creative. Didn't know that quite a number of them had left! Really out-dated. But that's life... People are constantly moving in and out of our life. Whenever we change jobs, that's when our friendships with ex-colleague gets diluted. Cos we don't get to see each other everyday. It all depends on the efforts by both parties to keep in touch. Saying is easier than done thou. How do you and your friends/ex-colleagues keep in touch? How often do you call or meet up?

Me & The Bride! She's so pretty!

Alland & Me. This is actually my MIL's dress that I mentioned in my blog as the vintage dress previously. This dress was bought abt 20 years ago!

Tiffany Latest Pic ---- Tea Break Pics

Latest pic of Tiffany. Taken in the moringn b4 I leave for work. She's eating her breakfast before going to the playground later. Her morning routine with FIL.
















My soft-toy, now her fav soft toy too. "Pig pig!" she calls it. hehe.... My 1st soft-toy gift from Allan. *hee... blushx2*












TEA-BREAK PICS

Here's Michelle... looking very cute right? She really doesn't look her age. Oops... Sshh...















Me with my Mocha Latte! Slurp slurp.

Last Sunday's Pix...

Has Allan slimmed down? After being sick for 2 weeks and intensive RT before that... hehe...











VivoCity's Xmas Tree! Christmas is in the air....


















Ist time to Vivocity Cinema!

My tired niece looking at the cake. All the kids can't wait to get their hand (I mean literally) on the cake.

Allan's cousin's boy Kiren (not too sure of the spelling). Both him & Keith are of the same age. They are playing Twister!

This is Keith, another cousin's kid. He has a chupa-chubs(lollipop) in his mouth. He's got the "bad boy" attitude!

Saturday... shopping for my Xmas pressie

It's such a wonderful morning! Clear, blue skies that I can't resist taking a picture of it!

Yesterday was a very busy day for us...

Went out with hubby and my sista yesterday. Sis is going to do her degree in Bachelor of Science in Construction Management starting from January 2007! Course duration is 2.5 years. Went down with her as she's using my credit card to do the 0% Interest Installment. This is another phase of her life and I'm glad she's a pretty much motivated person. I know it's not going to be easy being a part-time student. But I believe she can do it. Well, I promised to give her a treat after each of her semester to reward her after her exams!

We went Funan IT Mall to sign up for O2 Atom Pure. This is one of my Xmas pressie from Allan. He surprised me with a Body Shop Sea Salt scrub the other day. He said it is one of the Xmas gift too. But kena scolding as I myself don't even feel like spending the $ to buy it(heartache).

Was playing with the PDA phone till 1am last night. Abit shag right now. but who cares! It's the weekend. hee...

The 3 of us went to Siam Kitchen@Raffles City basement for lunch. Not bad but I think we over-ordered. Pls do not order the pineapple rice next time. It ain't that nice. But the highly-recommended chicken wings by my sis was quite nice(because of the sauce)!

Shopped around Raffles City for my team's gift exchange item. gotti...

If you are going to sign up for any installment plan using OCBC credit card, there is a brochure sent to us saying that we can rebate $100 off. I rushed all the way to Orchard before dinner yesterday to get this $100 rebate. Luckily, managed to get it! =)

Went to Bedok to meet Allan's family for dinner right after that. Teochew food. The food is pretty nice! We ordered around 8 dishes for $150... So it's affordable.

Here comes the address:

CHIN LEE RESTAURANT

Blk 115 Bedok North Rd

Going to Allan's cousin place later. His baby girl is celebarting her 1-year old birthday. After that, it's Vivocity time! Agenda => Challenger. And maybe catch Open Season if I can buy tickets on the spot. =P

Getting used to it?

Michelle's hubby will be back tonight. He has been in Australia for 17 days for army exercise. It's been a long wait for her. Today she mentioned," She has gotten used to it." Gotten to life without her hubby. haha... **Don't let Elton see this.** It's usually hard when the other party has just left. But after a few days or a week, you will find your own programs... and leading an independant life sort of. Friends and family play an important part. It's also a good time to catch up with them.

I was supposed to meet up with her twice, once in the wkday and the other on a Sat. But alas, the bout of stomach virus made me cancel both appointments. Felt quite bad about it. But that was no choice...

But honestly, for those who always have their partners around them, be thankful. After the 8 days of separation from Allan while he was in China, I wished he wouldn't ever have to go there again. *especially after I know the dark side over there, it's a Man's world there*

My Favourite Perfumes @the Moment.

Perfumes from Allan on his trip back from China at Hong Kong Airport.

And after my numerous requestzzz, he bought me Biotherm Cellulite Intense Peel (not sure of the exact name). It was a twin pack. I'm intending to use one bottle only. So if anyone of you wants to buy this, I can sell you the other bottle. Definitely at a lower price than the retail price of $78/bottle ( If I'm not wrong.)

1) Dior Addict 2

2) Dior Midnight Charm (Limited Edition)
I find the bottle pretty retro & cool! hehe...

Dear Stomach,pls be your normal good self again!

Yesterday night, I was so looking forward to work the next day (which is today). Packed my bag and laptop in last night. Who knows suffered from another bout of stomach flu or whatever. can't sleep till 2plus. Suffering from very bad indigestion. I only had my dinner last night and nothing else, no snacks, nothing. After more than 12 hours, my stomach is still digesting it.

I'm waiting for in-laws to come back so I can go and see the doctor. Argh!

I never had such a bad case of stomach problem before. Didn't realise that our stomach is so important to us. Every time I fall sick, I will start thinking,"How I wish I am back to my normal self again." Maybe I take things like our good health for granted. I mean besides the occassional common illnesses, we are generally in the pink of health. Hmm... how to not take things for granted?

1) I shall eat healthily. Eat less oily food!
2) Snack healthily. Less potato chips.(of cos I'm not eating that now) Find alternative snack!
3) Exercise regularly. We need to raise our heart-beat every few other days. Perspiration is also good for us! It removes toxins...

These are the body aspects of health. Of course there are a dozen more which includes emotional well-being which I will not mention it. Maybe next time. I can't think very well with my stomach like it is right now.

There are so many things I want to do today. I have written down my to-do list in my work today. And was planning to go to Sitex with Allan this evening after work. So much to look forward to. We shall see how it goes later on.

I want to wish everyone a meaningful and fulfilling day ahead!