Unbloggy

I'm not updating as often as i want to because there's always something else to do. Trying to work and rest hard too. I am only halfway through the Princess hours dvd anyway. There's not much time to squeeze in to watch it and if i do, i'll need 3hrs cos i just can't stop the dvd!

Taking leave on friday..yay! thou shalt not work. the problem with bringing work home is that it feels like you're working 24hrs. and i hate it that my customers call me unearthly hours. so picking up the phone isn't exactly always a fun thing to do...because i would anticipate what bad thing has gone wrong this time. it's mostly 80% bad and 20% ok.

so i'm unbloggy because i would rather watch tv or even work(!). no time no time lar...

Princess!

I feel like i have lots to update but just hadn't had time to. Work is like madness and still ongoing such that i feel like i'm lagging behind. wonder why there's like neverending things to do & coordinate...and neverending problems as well.

So i'm like deliberately trying to take a break from it all...aka minimize the amount of work i do at home. all i do in my free time is try to work and try to remember all the nitsy bitsy details i better not forget.

and so..my mum on her surprise trip on sunday to our place, passed me the dvd for Princess Hours!! (3 discs only because she hasn't finished watching the 4th disc then) and when u start u can't stop. i wish i have the luxury of time to watch it alll!!!

Looking forward to some holidays without worries of my work...not likely? they day i have holiday is the day no one is gonna call me and disturb me with work stuff. wonder when will be the day i come home and finally get to unpack my stuff...and do boliao things. maybe i should take leave next week...hmm...

and this year's civil servant's bonus is so woah that i wish i am a civil servant too...buahaha. oh whell...too bad...there's a time for everything...and money isn't everything but it's still something you need to survive. wonder why the older we get the more things we have to pay for, and 'save' for and return money for.

christmas is coming....

Happy 1st anniversary to us!

We are 1!
(sounds like some sale advertisment..."We are 1! 10% off all items")

oh no lah...It's our 1yr wedding anniversary...like some birthday..haha. we had our some of brothers and sisters in church wishing us happy anniversary. but so sweet of them to remember too :)

we managed to taichi all appointments away on sunday...so we can have the whole day together after church. and we almost did. our parents are like asking us out to have dinner and feels like everyone wants to meet us on this anniversary day! so we had steamboat at my in-laws place on saturday...and even my mum & sis managed to surprising pop by on sunday night itself.

eventful as it is we didn't really do super drama stuff or super romantic stuff. went to buy groceries together at ntuc. stocked up good enough tidbits and food for the night's dinner. and when we came home, we just couldn't help it...we did the housework, packed up stuff, fixed the kitchen drawers & ikea rack, vacuumed, washed the clothes etc. (how eventful right?) haha...but we felt so satisfied after cleaning up the house.

dinner was the highlight. ah...

On the menu: mashed potates, honey chicken (we bought this though), garlic baked cod fish with asparagus & abalone mushrooms, and grape juice.

and we wanted to have choc ice-cream with fruits as dessert (and Ww was like so eager to eat he wanted to he even b4 i finished my own dinner!)
oh but...we had a mini surprise..

mummy & meimei bought Cedele's carrot cake for us. whow! so we ate that instead and this carrot cake is really super duper delicious!

you know...i've got more and more candles at home because of the birthday parties at my place so far and still ah...we don't have a lighter to light the candle! (the first time i had to borrow from my neighbour, the 2nd time someone had a lighter..heh..otherwise i gotta borrow frm them again) i really gotta remember to buy one someday!

One year seems like so fast! Thank you Lord for the many things we don't deserve...for the love and blessings that you have showered on us; for giving us love, that we can learn love each other; for teaching us that you matter most; for showing us a glimpse of heaven; for giving us each other. it's a great journey ahead...and it's even better because of God.

I've got no time to think of better things to write. gotta sleep le...too much work tomorrow.

nothing much

This is week is all work (and some housework only).

Went to Ww's school musical..woh...it was like really fantastic and just so enjoyable to watch...and quite funny as well. :) the kids are all so cute anyway. 1st time i've seen a pri school musical though but it was great! hard to describe in words but i surely didn't regret going (tho i felt i was wearing a little too casual..didn't have time to go home to change).

and no i'm not pregnant lar..i think it's pms..i eat more during that period (i don't usually go into a bad mood swings). it's also probably work stress and house moving stress...i feel like eating. i think it's my stress-relief method. i love eating. (and now u know what i love taking food pictures) whoops. but if i'm too busy i can forgo eating (i barely had a proper meal till dinner time today).

dunno what's with us...love to take pics in pretty toilets...


i've gotta catch up with lots of unpacking at home...still not done!?!)!

The days i eat tooo much

I dunno what it is but these few days i'm like eating without restriction...almost. i would have cravings for something to eat...and usually something unhealthy, fried or chocolaty, or dessert-y. mayb it's pms. and i'm like so snacky...anything...kitkat in the fridge, or some biscuits, now there's triple chocolate cereal from st.michael. this is not good. i better really start some exercising. i miss swimming though. and the thought of running kinda feels daunting (even though it's a time-saving and very calorie burning exercise thing to do). and i'm joining the standard chartered 10k run..oh dearr...i wonder how i'm able to make it without any training at all!

went to Dulos at Vivo today, to check out their bookfair. ok though...some aren't really cheap. but i bought a book "Cover to Cover", reading the bible in a year (for $4) which i'll be starting it tmr! but interesting...wonder what it's like to travel on the ship.

i can't remember what jeremy was saying...looks "argh". but i think he's being expressive. hehh.

anyway it was a lazy drowsy afternoon and i slept on the bus all the way home, enough to keep me awake later and watch tv. something i haven't done for a while. and with our new home i'm kinda watching a bit more tv because i can record shows i can't watch in time.

nice to be home alone and listening to christian radio on itunes. we have given up listening to our songs in the computer, bored of them already. and music soothes our soul, and Christian music usually have very meaningful lyrics and it makes me think. makes me happy. simple. God makes me think. God makes me wonder. i pray i know how to praise Him more, love Him more, glorify Him more, know Him more...

i'm still feelin so fulllll!!! *trying to burp*

Back with internet

I haven't been posting because
1) i'm just too busy with moving house (really where got time? there's endless things to pack, clean, sort, organize & do)
2) we didn't have internet for a week (because the phone line wasn't activated yet)

Anyway we have more or less settled into our new place quite happily, enjoying it thoroughly, the living room, the deck, our study, our bedroom, the bathroom, the walk-in wardrobe and the kitchen....despite the glass doors still unwiped...every night we go to sleep and we see that glass door looking at us and it's not sparkling clean yet, and i tell myself tmr night i must clean it and the whole process happens again because we still didn't get down to clean it. getting lazy liao...other than the basic cleaning and washing clothes.

there's still lots to do and we aren't sure if we'll be ready for our planned housewarming date. hopefully we would have gotten everything cleaned and packed up by then.

and post-date ping's bday at sake sushi

my Katsudon which was quite a disappointment even tho it looks so pretty. but we had a private room to munch in :)

and club swiss for desserts, great atmosphere but the food is ex (choc fondue for $29..i think i can whip up a better one for much less cost) YP next time i make choc fondue for u lah..with better fruit selections and better tasting chocolate :P


just all of us (the food too small to see)

stuff i would want to do when if i become a taitai

in random order:
1. Start my wall decal company
2. Bake cakes, pastries, bread at home
3. Start some christian website like relevantmag
4. Have 4 kids and home school them
5. Start a after school study 'centre' at home for teens + tuition (heard someone was doing it)
6. Learn to cook all kinds of food (and prepare breakfast for Ww every morning...if i can wake up so early)
7. Organize some women's fellowship or support group for whatever

i can't think of anymore.

seems like a lot. and seems like some things undo the become tai tai part. and seems like i never go shopping. seems like stuff i wonder if i will ever ever get doing (considering how difficult it is for me to start something and have the perseverence to finish it).

Take 5

Read this in my chic pie's blog...been there done that. always love the way she crafts words so interestingly and uniquely. happy belated birthday chic pie! (sorry i couldn't make it to your block party..tho i still have your present with me..heh). hope things are better wherever u r at.

"The Creative Process
Because a friend asked me, "Why do you guys have to work late so often?"

The Creative Process
1. Brief given to designers
2. Designer brainstorms and comes out with 3 good options and concepts
3. Internal review of design schemes
4. Refine-ment
5. Not good enough because you see, everything must be perfect in order to preserve the highest design integrity possible = 1000 more internal reviews. Refine 1000 times more.
6. Finally everyone agrees on a final scheme
7. Proceeds to start on presentation package
8. Makes another 1000 changes to colour, tone and other minor stuff that only the designers will notice and which clients won't be able to tell any difference.
9. Boss injects a last minute idea seen from a magazine
10. Designers execute the idea unwillingly
11. Printer breaks down at the 11th hour
12. Cries, kicks the printer, tears hair.
13. Printer (who must be a female) decides to work again.
14. Presents the idea to the client, who has another idea of his own
15. Repeats step 1-14 until thoroughly satisfied.

Note: i'm not complaining. Like everyone else in the same circle, this process has become part and parcel, and i think i would still do that than anything else."

no longer doing that now...but i'm trying to learn to balance my work and life, when work becomes 24/7. And there are times when you don't really want to answer calls...and there are times when u do things so nicely and someone comes and messes it all up. so i'm learning to take things easy. to know that things can go wrong but it's not the end of the world. to know that God is with me and i'm not alone. i want to be a perfectionist but before i even reach halfway there somethings crop up and i lose the motivation to get it perfect. and i wish i can remember things better, clearer and don't make silly mistakes (esp those that costs me so much money). but i need to learn to cheer up and take things easy...and not worry!

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today i think i'll have lots to blabber.

listening to this song "Your grace still amazes me"

each time i fall, You pick me up. Your grace still amazes me. it's deeper, it's wider, it's stronger, it's higher than anything my eyes can see.
who has such patience?
1 + 3 = 4

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on a happier note, i love my new house even tho it's in a great mess and hardly anything has been packed yet, and we've still got things not done there and there we quite a few glitches we have to live with. we're looking forward to move in. :)

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Somethings are unfair...then again sometimes it's not necessary to entertain people who do not want to understand things from another perspective. (aka throw pearls to pigs) After all we're all biased towards or against something or someone in some way or another. Some people can't face the truth and don't dare to speak face to face but rely on conversations where there is no other witnesses so that there won't be any 2nd opinion. how smart. is everything so black and white? yet it isn't because words can be twisted, meanings can be misinterpreted, good intentions thwarted, tones misread. and the misunderstanding gets worse, because someone else sees that perspective but not the other...and not be able to make a right judgement of things. is this unfair? do we use God's name to condemn others? if there is judgement, where is love and forgiveness? God is perfect but we are not. That's why we need to speak in love not in hate, better is open rebuke, than hidden love (is there any here?it's more like hidden rebuke). Do we try to defend ourselves? i would want to. but we know it'll be fruitless. let bygones be bygones. i'm just frustrated. and we know open rebuke won't help, because it fell and falls by the path and was misinterpreted.

Do you see a man wise in his own eyes?
There is more hope for a fool than for him.
Do not speak to a fool,
for he will scorn the wisdom of your words.
Drive out the mocker, and out goes strife;
quarrels and insults are ended.
He who guards his mouth and his tongue
keeps himself from calamity.

this will be the last of what i'll pour out on this...as frustrated as i am...and erm...feeling defensive too. :(

A day out at Vivo

There's still a lot of things to do and i was glad for a relatively peaceful saturday, even tho i went to office to do some work. No customers calling me a shocking me with whatever problems. maybe coz it's Deepavali?

there's so much to do though and even today was a day packed with activities. actually, i could have like gone home after tuition. but then i choose to arrange for facial, and the thought i had the time to go buy the wood decking, which in the end i didn't and that quite ended with much frustration coz they close at 6pm and my facial finished at 545pm (the sales lady was like trying to keep me there and persuading me to get the facial package..they do this all the time leh..so sian..can't i go for my facial in peace?) and i didn't know that place was so far away. (it looked so close in the map!) and i walked until 6pm and gave up, took the bus back to harbourfront to meet my sis. super frustrating coz i had to make another trip down to get the wood decking. argh. and that's tmr.

anyway Vivocity is nice...

big and takes a little to get used to the layout. but it has the advantage of the harbour for great views and a spacious outdoor space. cool shops and interiors too. meimei kept admiring all the wallpapers they use. the whole space is quite an eye candy. funny seats, weird playgrounds, exciting design, new things to see, organic exterior and interior designs...

we took a walk out and can't help taking a picture....or pictures...till my hp want to die.. (it was running on low battery after all the photo taking)

this was trying out without all the ground lighting shining at as and making weird shadows on our faces..


and the ohh so tempting Godiva Chocolixir...wahh..but...it's $8 :-S so ex...such indulgence and extravagance. we admired it a while and decided it's not worth spending $8 on this...i don't think i can tell the difference between this and a normal choc blended...


anyway day out with meimei was good...just spoilt at the end with a minor work problem. (argh...no peace..i was hoping no one will disturb me).

it's a tiring day...need to get more sleep. it's the great house stress this week liao, even tho i'm kinda excited about it.