Thursday, January 24, 2008
My ROM date is confirmed! It's 27 FEB 2008!! My ROM will be a small reception, only immediate relatives (those living in S'pore and Johor), dear Pinkies and Chiew Ting are invited. As it's a weekday, not all will be able to make it. So we are expecting around 30 (or even less?) to attend my solemnisation. Although it's a mini event, but it involves so much work lor, my goodness! Can't believe how busy we're going to get for the customary one. Venue is one prob. Till now we still have not confirmed a venue. I want an alfresco style with garden poolside ceremony. Reason being the traditional wedding dinner is already very "chinese" style, so my ROM should have a more western feel. Not that we cannot find nice venues lar, but they are very costly and burst our budget of $1500 liao. Many hotel packages charge around 70+++ per pax then plus decor it can easily reach 2K triple plus! Siao...
Have been looking thru quite a number of hotels, now KIVing Marina Mandarin Hotel because it offers one of the lowest rate and has one of the best food. The ambience is only so-so; we'll be having the meals facing the fountain. One drawback is that it is also a non-smoking area for the cafe so dunno if there will be any smokers "disturbing" us during the ceremony. Another thing is that the guests will have to walk through the cafe to get to the solemnization area. Wierd lor.. Many people will be staring at us one... But they promised to set-up nicely for us la... Actually we wanted to get Merchant Court, because solemnisation will be at a pavilion overlooking the pool and offers an even cheaper package, but they are too rigid liao, not willing to extend the lunch hr for us and the wedding co-ordinator is not very enthu lidat, makes us sianzz..
We still need to consider my ROM dress, make-up, hairstyling and photographer/ videographer lor.. The total cost really sky high, cannot imagine have to spend so much for a simple ROM. But have settled my dress liao... It's a custom-made knee length dress. I requested it to be pink, with white sash ribbon, dunno if it will turn out nice as there was no pink sample of that piece. But then the pink dress is to match Chaa's pink shirt also ma, we want to be a "PINK" couple:p Now quite apprehensive that the pink dress will turn out to be bimbo rather than sweet..
Now the photographers. Wah.. They are very expensive lor! The good ones charge 200 per hr. Chaa and I were thinking that we may need 4 hrs to include outdoor shoots. 4x200= 800 bucks for a ROM photographer! No joke. But those gd ones take really nice pics, except pricing too steep. So we may have to settle for the next cheaper one la... Actual wedding then use gd ones..
Wah..really quite a lot of things to do, lucky got Cha to handle most of them..hee hee..
5:02 PM
Wednesday, January 02, 2008
Some might already have known, I'm getting married soon!! Actually is ROM first la, the customary wedding might have to wait a while. Cha and I have decided that ROM can be in late Feb before the Qing Ming Month comes in. Prob the solemnization ceremony will take place in a country club, venue to be confirmed.
Chaaa proposed on New Year Day. We stayed in Merchant Court Exceutive Club for the countdown. That day, Chaaa fetched me from work and we went to Vivo for lunch. After that we slowly made our way to Merchant Court and got a really sweet surprise when I entered the room. Chaa had came in earlier to decorate the room with a romantic feel. He spreaded pink rose petals on the bed and made out a red heart with red petals on the middle of the bed. Not only that, there were many balloons, some tied to the table lamps, some to the study table and the rest were left floating freely around. Some balloons were pink, white and red; some printed with "I Love You" while others have little heart prints. There was also a bouquet of 24 pink roses lying on the side-table. The decoration was really romantic, and it was really sweet that Chaaa did these all by himself. But I think Chaa was quite sad when I told him the balloons looked like National Day balloons lar..hee..;P
So as usual, we did not waste any time in taking lots of pictures in the room, and in a very short time, we took a total of 140+ photos just in that room alone lor! Finally, Chaa gave me the belated Xmas gift, an embroidered Precious Moments piece of fabric. Even though I was wondering what to do with that piece of cloth, I was quite moved by this gift as I cannot imagine his clumsy fingers embroidering Precious Moment for me. And I was also quite surprised that this gift was very similar to my second anniversary gift to him and he bought the embroidery set even before I gave it to him. Wahhh..got mo(4) qi(4) leh!
After that, we had dinner at an Italian restaurant, Zambuca at Pan Pacific Hotel. The seafood pasta I ordered was nice but as I was too full from the cocktail buffet we had earlier on, I couldn't finish it. The place was really dark and quiet and we could only manage a few shots.
As we returned to hotel quite early, we played poker cards and watched countdown on tv. But I was too tired liao la, I dozed off after a while le and Chaa had to keep waking me up. Haha..yuan lai he wanted to propose to me after it strikes midnite. I knew Chaa will propose that day so I kept trying to search for the ring the whole day, but just couldn't find it. It din occur to me that he kept it in the safe lor..aiyoh... He took out many boxes from the safe, got one jewellery box, one Soo Kee box and one Brilliant Rose box. Very mean, he opened all the empty boxes first to make fun of me. Finally there was this one last box where the ring was kept. The moment came when he asked me to marry him...=)
The ring is beautiful. It was exactly what I had always wanted. It's a Brilliant Rose diamond. Really touched that Chaa really tries his best to give me the best. I know that we will be eating grass for the next few months, but I think it's worth it =)
3:10 PM
Monday, December 31, 2007
I'm finally back from Taiwan. Weather over there is superb, and scenery is nice as well. But the itinery is way too rushed, having to change hotels everynight and have to carry the bulky luggage up and down everytime we move. Shopping time is scarce, I cannot believe the tour guide only gave us 2.5 hr to tour Shi Lin night market, including dinner time lor! Pengz... we cannot even make it to half the market when the time's up. My poor dad. As we gals all wanted to chiong last minute shopping, he did not even eat much that night. He spent a lot of money on us and yet did not get much for himself. Although I wanted to use up all my $$, but the short shopping time made this impossible, in the end we all had quite a lot of $$ left. But I still got myself 2 pairs of boots and a few winter clothings la. It's the wrong time to shop there as it is winter over there and you could hardly buy summer clothings there de...All in all it wasn't that enjoyable as my sis did something that made me very angry.
Today is New Year's Eve. Will be meeting Cha later to count down to New Yr together. Will be staying in Merchant Court today. Chaa said he has a surprise for me wor...Looking forward to it now...Now to make a New Year wish. Hope we will have a better year ahead and everything will be smoothsailing for all of us. May we all have a happier year and good health, and of cuz LOTS OF $$ =)
9:58 AM
Saturday, December 15, 2007
Yesterday Chaa brought me to Purvis Street to dine at Miss Clarity. It was a pinky shop with a very cozy setting. Food is cheap and good and according to Chaa's friend, they like to arrange the food in a fine-dine setting at an affordable price. We ordered set meals and added nuggets as a side dish which costs us only $33. It's really quite nice...got chance will bring pinkies over there..
After that, we travelled down to Taka to take pictures. The Xmas tree was really huge and beautiful.. A bit dazzled by the lights thou, made my head dizzy when I faced the tree. Unbelieveably, we took more than 100 pictures just with that tree alone. But I looked a bit oily after working for a whole day liao. The tree in front of the Cathay Cineplex is also very nice, it's PINK and fluffy-like. I think Pinkies will like it very much. Cha will probably bring me there today to take pic again...
Xmas Eve this year will be different de... For the past 10 years I have been celebrating Xmas with Pinkies but this year I'll be travelling to Taiwan with my family le. Going to miss all the fun photo-taking and the "SHE "poses :(
Actually I'm quite looking forward to the trip de..dunno how's the xmas over at Taiwan. But because this time we signed up with a tour grp, I'm afraid that most of the time will be spent on sightseeing. I really want to go shopping leh. Dunno how much time the tour grp will allocate for shopping, but from the itinery, I think only got half a day for shopping. Sian diao..I've so much things I want to buy...shoes, chothes, gifts, foodies...
Chaa coming over soon le. We're going to celebrate Xmas today becuz I'll be flying on Thur liao. Chaa will be bringing me to an Italian restaurant this evening, heard from him the ambience is very nice. But a bit disappointed when Cha told me there will be no surprise gift for Xmas this yr becuz he had no time to prepare for me. Well. its kinda true, we meet each other everyday for lunch so he where got time to prepare a surprise gift for me leh...I remember last yr he made 1000 paper cranes for me and I was so happy. This year he bought a dress for me instead. It's quite nice and fits me well..Going to wear it when we celebrate New Yr Eve together.
Last week I had bought 2 Le Sportsac bags as Xmas gifts for both my sis and they cost me almost 300 bucks. But both don't like the bags and said they look like recycled bags. Made me sad as I've spent much time choosing the bags. In the end, my bigger sis went to exchange for Taka vouchers. I dunno abt the smaller one but I know she got half the mind to take a refund too. So unappreciative. They ignored my good intentions and even chose to return the bag. I'd think twice abt getting them presents again. Might as well take the easy way out: Just get them a $50 voucher each. Cheap and easy. In any case, I guess I'll not choose & buy anything for them again le.
On a brighter note,I'm now waiting for Chaa to pick me up and bring me out for a date=)
10:35 AM
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Life is never perfect...ya..I know, it's a clich'e statement but I can't help but feel strongly on this. No matter how impossible my dreams may be, I still want to fulfill them because life is short and I only get to live once. I just dun belong to the category who are easily contented. Although I lead a good life as compared to so many other people in the world, I still find myself envious of ppl who can realize all their dreams. Sad to say, I always dun get the best in life, the most I can get is second best. This applies to my studies, my dreams, what I want to do, my relationships, etc... Although my job is comfortable, but I just dun like what I'm doing, and I also dunno what I can do otherwise..So many other factors deterring me from changing job.
I want to travel around the world, and this means I have to use up all my savings and start from scratch again after I'm done. Sad to say, by the time I'm financially able, I'm already old and may start tagging kids with me. Really dun want that to happen to me. I'd rather delay all family planning until I've done what I want in life and not let them burden me before that. Yes, I'm selfish, but since no one helps me achieve my dream, then there is no reason for me to to do the same for others. It's all about expectations ppl have of me. Like Danny has said what I want to do is impractical and unrealistic, but he just dun understand what I'm going thru, of cuz he can say anything since he has already done what I want to do... Easy for him to say. Even going to cluster B places are not special anymore...Another example of never getting the best in life...
Haizz..I'm complaining and dreaming again....
2:01 PM
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Lately I like to call Chaa as Porky, dunno y...juz gives me a heartwarming feeling, so Cha got another endearment liao. Cha said that it reminded him of the "Porky" in the Bookworm Club, and tat's my favourite book series when I was in Pri 1 lor!! In return I was given another nick "piglet", now we sound like a family of pig...
Quite bz with my KM stuff lately, have been arrowed to do presentation, sian, I hate presentations because I cannot present well. I'm supposed to persuade the management to accept my ideas, may end up kana rejected cuz I may sound shaky and not forceful enough, lose face leh...But then get it over and done with lar..after this one there shdn't be anymore presentation liao.
Today my director asked me in the car how much longer I wld stay in the company. Then I remembered that I had indicated I'd not stay longer than one year in my employee survey (supposed to be confidential as promised by the survey company). But I still feared that somehow he will manage to find out lo, so I clumsily steered the topic away and started to blabber lots of crap. Damn obvious. Even if I dun say anything, from my response, I think he knows liao. Dunno whether this will affect my confirmation as perm staff or not. Not that I kian confirmation in my company. But no harm being confirmed, haa..
I really hate being alone with my dir. He always asks me very sensitive questions. Answers which are not supposed to be known by him. If I don't tell him the truth, he will soon find out that I'm lying. If I tell him the truth, then it's stupid. Dilemma lar, think next time I avoid being alone with him better.
4:00 PM
Friday, October 19, 2007
Has been quite some time since I wrote my last blog. It has been a really really hectic week, with great frustration at the beginning of the week, to things being a bit more settled down. Really have a lot of things to do from now up till next Feb le. Really don't feel like working liao...
Anyway this week marks a turning point de, now having mixed feelings and emotions, feeling excited, scared, happy and confused at the same time. A lot of uncertainty. But then, let's hope and pray that everything will go well and we get to do what we want. That's my wish.
5:43 PM
Sunday, September 30, 2007
Top view of the hologram
View from the right
View from the left
My handmade gift to Cha
Within a blink of my eyes, the celebration is over, time passes fast especially for the day which I've been looking forward to for weeks. I was very happy to see Cha at the doorstep with pink roses in his hands yesterday morning. After breakfast, he gave me the first present of the day - a hologram he made himself, it's like a photoboard which presents two different blown-up pictures that we took when viewed from different sides. I remembered these pics were taken last Xmas and at Vivo City early this year. I was quite amazed by this gift as I tot that it was really creative to make a hologram using our pictures! Quid pro quo, I gave him the Renoma bag I've bought for him. From his look, I think he quite likes it lar.. Given his expensive tastes, it's actually not easy to find a bag he likes lo...
As usual, not much activities for the day. We had desserts at NYDC located at Holland Village, after which we parked the car at Central and took train to SunTec and Marina Sq for a walk. The day was fine except Cha had stomach pains and had to diarrhoea twice. Maybe it was the cakes we ate earlier on bah.. But the highlight came when Cha brought me to Dolce Vita at Oriental Hotel for a poolside candlelit dinner.. We had the window seat and tot that the ambience was really great with soft lighting and poolside view. As expected, the food was outrageously expensive and the fish I ordered costs a whopping 50+ bucks lo. As I looked thru the menu, I found that their average pricing for a main course is ard sixty plus, so I decided for quite long before I finally made my choice - Cod Fish with some pepper sauce...The servings were small but luckily their bread servings were quite generous..So we actually stuffed ourselves with more bread to make ourselves full la...haa.. This was also where Cha gave me the second present for the day, a Brilliant Rose necklace. Hee.. actually it was quite close to my guess as I had a feeling Cha will buy me accessories.. It's a heart shaped pendant with a diamond stud in the middle, simple and sweet. Now I can alternate between another necklace Cha bought for me last year liao..haa
Next we adjourned for a drink at their lounge. It was cozy as we had a large sofa seat to ourselves, facing the window with a scenic night view. It was finally my turn to give Cha my handmade gift- a small pillow with embroidered Precious Moments "A Kiss to Build a Dream On". Think he was really surprised as I had told him earlier on that I had no time to make gifts for him =D
All in all, although last nite was a simple celeb, it was enjoyable and I appreciate Cha's time in preparing the gifts for me admist all his mid term tests, projects and his hectic work. Can tell from his tired look last evening that it was quite tough on him and this made the gifts even more meaningful to me (",)
2:22 PM
Thursday, September 27, 2007
A bit stressed now..cuz tomolo I kana note taking duty for my big big big big boss and other big big big big guy from France. What if I cannot catch what they say, their conversation sure revolves ard political topics and I'm not the current affair savvy type lo...I don't even know what is their airport or biggest pier called..die die die...how to take notes for them? To make things worse, there's only three of us, I have to clear my notes with my big big big big boss directly...STRESSED LA...I dun wan my grammer and vocab to be subject to such scrutinity by the big big big big boss lor... Straight after the session, I have to record everything down or else I will surely forget over the weekend de...
But what motivates me to get this over is the coming Sat.. It's our 2nd Anniversary!! So fast, cannot imagine we have been together for more than 700 days liao, just a short distance from 1000th day.. Dunno wat Cha has planned out for that day, quite excited de, it's only one more day away! =D
5:21 PM
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Today is mooncake festival liao, looking forward to a sumptuous dinner this evening.. but not feeling too well this morning le, had diarrhoea and a bad throat. But today late afternoon have a meeting leh, may drag on depending on my dir's pace le... haiz..may not be in time to eat together with my family liao..
Got a pleasant surprise this morning...Cha passed me a pink pearl his dad bought for me in China, quite nice and it's PINK..haa.. quite touched...
Still have a rather weak stomach now, later if got fever will pack up, take mc and go home early for my reunion dinner liao..hehehe
9:13 AM
Friday, September 21, 2007
Have something to complain again... Really stupid one.. Because I'm in charge of my office's fixed assets, turned out that I'm responsible for throwing every single thing here as well. Last mth we have to dispose a few furniture urgently as one of the store room needs to be converted for some other uses, and as we have no space here, we have to get rid of these tables and chairs. These 13 pieces of tables and chairs were actually junk, purchased abt a decade ago, stained, old and has zero net book value liao..Just to throw these 13 pieces of junk, I have to put up a stupid approval to dispose these junk, which I have to include: Background, ie, y we have to throw the items; a list of items stating item description, qty, costs, date of acquition and NBV. This was followed by listing down all the options on how we can throw away and call for quotations from second hand vendors (juz in case my director wants to sell to them then we can sell them fast). Then I have to put up justification why a particular option was chosen and y we din choose the other 3 instead. OK, from an economical point of view, sale to vendor most profitable mah, so I chose this option. Then my director don't want and ask me to ask our"partner agencies" they wan or not, but they all scoffed at me lor, cuz the furniture too old liao... Then my dir say y not we donate to charity... OK lor since he wants to be so charitable, I redrafted my submission for the third time and put up submission for donation. Because of his fussiness, I've spent nearly THREE weeks redrafting and waiting for his approval to throw some stupid junk. Because of him, the customers we serve wasted so much money because he asked his staff do these kind of unproductive work. And because of him, the furniture took ONE MONTH to be disposed off, when it shd only take one week. DAMN. Waste of my time, macham my time not important and only his time is golden, JIAN. I already have so much shit work up my neck and he gave me these stupid work to do, unbelievable...
Then when the furniture collectors finally come to collect their items today, got this stupid colleague, ASKS my section colleague IN FRONT OF MY DIRECTOR why never pass these furniture to him, he say can put at his place. DAMN IT LA where got space?? Our office space is so tight now lor! Then Dir seems quite angry that I never ask other staff whether anyone wants it... But they want urgent disposal ma, and the furniture so old until I don't believe anyone will want it that kind lor! Think my stupid dir will question me on this. That colleague is really stupid and insensitive too, how can he do it in front of my director when I finally can get these old junk off my hands??? Ultimately insensitive! After this incident, next time even throw a pen also must write approval letter and evaluate options for disposal liao! Might as well let our CEO sign off! Really rigid n idiotic system here, complete waste of my time! To cover my backside everything just follow the law lar!
3:47 PM
Sunday, September 16, 2007
My parents had to attend a wedding lunch reception today so I stayed at home to rot. Juz had maggie mee and watched a 3 hr drama serial, now my eyes are swarming with stars..haa..think I'll catch a nap after this blog le, feel a bit nuar but starting to sian because tomorrow have to begin a new working week again...
Had the hotpot with Pink at Tian Tian HotPot @ Tan Quee Lan Street to celeb Xing's bday on Fri. I remembered I ate many many hotdogs...Ha a bit wasted cuz hotdogs are cheap and I din really eat much meat that day, but it was a fun session and we all had enjoyed ourselves...After Xia had recounted her story, when I got home, I asked Cha why he never gave me the "wing" Hee..It turn outs that he has been wearing it when we had starting going out, but I din notice lor (",) and he was sweet to give me the following day lar, not for me to wear, but rather has encased it for my keeping...=)
So after picking out all the photos at my house on Sat, Cha brought me to this Arabian cafe for desserts, I think it's called "Samar" near Beach Rd that area, I forgot the street name again liao...hmm I realize Arabic desserts and drinks are quite spicey, think I cannot really get used to it...but one of their dessert tastes really nice just like apple strudel...
After that, we walked ard in Marina Sq and made our way to Rendeous Hotel for a sumptuous buffet wor, super nice.. It's a open-air barbecue buffet, with lots of varieties, got stingray, prawn, crayfish, crabs, satay, steak, lamp chop, sotong and my fav, Irish Sausages!!! All BBQ wor.. the dessert also very nice, got ice-cream, nonya Kuay, cakes and the highlight was their durian cake, it's superb! To Cha's utmost delight, there was a super big screen with the soccer match on lo, yesterday is Everton - Man U.. so Cha kept got distracted, HUMPH...but over all, I LOVE THE BBQ BUFFET!!
1:06 PM
Friday, September 14, 2007
It's the end of the week again! It's scary how the weeks fly past lidat and before I know it Monday bluez will start again...Again, so much shit to clear, everyday got different heaps of dung to be cleared, one shit haven cleared, always comes another one... But when Im in office, dunno y the time seems to crawl and how I yearn for 6 pm to come. That's how my life is. Next 2 weeks will also be very shitty and the tot of going back to office after this weekend is totally distressing. But anyway, let's see how it goes...
In another 2 hrs time I will be out of office liao, Hoorayyyy..after work will be meeting Pink for steamboat...wah..mouth starts to water liao..I think it's fun to have a big grp eating hotpot as we can eat more varieties. It's a nice chill out place as well...Hotpot with Cha would not be quite as fun..haha
Second anniversary with Chaa is coming in 2 wks time liao, shit...haven bought the present yet..Don't think I have the time to get it leh.. Anyway we have to start on the second yr anniversary scrapbook liao.. This time the book sure very thick lor, so many photos we have taken, the US trip photos can already bind one book liao... This time round, we will make our own, cuz it's cheaper than buying one..but in the end hor, the materials we bought cost ard the same price lor, but of cuz it's more meaningful if we make it ourselves lar...so today Im bringing my laptop back so that we can start choosing photos tomorrow. Then we'll spread over a few weeks to do the scrapbook, hope it turns out nice lo, given that both Cha and myself are not exactly very talented artists...
But Im curious wat Cha will give me for second anni leh...and again, he just wouldn't tell me anything abt it...And where will we be having our dinner??? Meanwhile I can only look forward to this special day amidst my tiring, shitty work days...
3:45 PM
Monday, September 03, 2007
Was msning Cha this afternoon when we toked abt the Europe tour we've planned for since last yr. Was thinking we can go for a long trip somewhere next July in 08 to celebrate our 1000th day:)
Cha mentioned that it's better to tour Europe in clusters, cuz it 's time efficient and saves costs.
Cluster A: England, France, Belgium and Holland.
Cluster B: Hungary, Vienna(Austria), Czech Republic, Germany, Switzerland and Italy.
Cluster C: Scotlands, Wales, Ireland and England
Cluster D: Spain and Portugal (Better to travel in groups)
Having considered all the options available with Cha, we've finally narrowed down to Cluster B, exluding Hungary. Also, Cha has acceded to my request to include France as well, cuz I think that place is so romantic!! So we'll set aside ard 18 days for the entire trip...
This wld be like a pre-honey moon trip to me and it's my dream to tour there when I'm still young de lor :)
Have to start saving a lot of $$$ and plan for it soon liao, hopefully everything goes as planned and I really get to fulfill this little dream of mine *keep my fingers crossed* =)
5:35 PM
Today is 3rd of Sept...I can still vaguely remember 2 years ago on this day when Cha and I first met. Cha had told me what attracted him most abt me was my chattiness. Was that all???? Humph! Of cuz he discovered other gd qualities abt me la, cannot believe he found me talkative leh.. I'm just trying to be friendly mah...haha..
Anyway I had a great Sat. We had counted down to our 23rd mths together after dinner at a Thai restaturant @ CHIJMES. It's considered a special mth as this is the last one before our second yr together. Time really flies...not before long, I'll be counting down to Xmas and New yr again...But meanwhile I'll still be suffering and complaining...haizzz..SIAN AH!!!!
9:49 AM
