Can you guess what I am up to today?

=)

I am sleepy that I wished I'm in bed!

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the long weekend was packed with tons of activities that I did not have any time alone, unless you consider 3 hours of manicure me-time.

I ended 2009 with a movie - bodyguards and assassins and started 2010 with another movie - did you hear about the morgans? it was movie galore because i had this stack of $1 off coupons to be utilised before 31 Dec 09, so we bought movie tickets for all the shows that we wanted to watch, including avatar.

Bright and early in the morning, we were up and about and headed shopping! we went to buy shoes for the boy for the shoot, and then a bbq with friends a stone throw away from my void deck (more on it in a separate post), followed by the a midnight movie avatar. the movie was fantastic, just a pity that we didnt catch it in the 3D version. by the time the movie ended, we were really tired from bustling around the entire day and crashed promptly soon after we got home.

saturday started early for us, since the boy's birthday is round the corner.. his friends wanted to celebrate it for him and we went k-lunch! it was fun, and considering how i don't like singing.. i did enjoy the session!

we zipped off to the bridal studio for fitting and hmmm... feels really surreal. stole some snap shots but i don't think i'll be showing them in the blogosphere.

the day didnt end there. we had to rush off to der's grandma's birthday celebration at may springs. I was so sleepy that i dozed off in the car and gave a whole lot of crap instructions to the venue that we ended up in circles for a while. gambled the first time in 2010 and won $90 from mahjong! Wooohooo! does that mean good luck in some sense?! :)

and sunday was in JB (see earlier post) and then manicure in the evening and dinner with my dad at night. Yawns. i got home close to midnight, feeling spent and tired.. and all i wanted to do was crash in bed.

i wish the alarm didnt ring this morning and i didnt have to drag myself out from bed for work because i am really really tired.

i guess in time to come, there will be more commitments to fulfill, a busier year (amidst the preparations), more responsibilities and hopefully more opportunities as well.

I have not had the time to reflect on the past year and make any resolutions for the new year. but bearing in mind the amount of changes (to my life) that will happen in 2010, i just want to achieve a few simple things for the year.

1. save more money (cutting down the frivolous buys, eat less lavishly, make every single cent well spent)
2. be nice to people around me (not that im not nice), learn to snap less at people, hold my temper and accumulate good karma.
3. appreciate the people around me - family, friends and especially the boy
4. be more positive when it comes to work. things will always turn out better if we have faith isn't it?
5. be more active in blogging (iphone makes it easier now) and jot down the key details of my life journey, especially the happy moments.

I guess that's it for now. when i have the time (maybe after the 7 jan), i just might think about what has happened in 2009 in details and put to good use what I have learnt in the past year.

i hope you are not too bored reading all these boring stuff from me from the start of the year.

The day started at 6.30am. i struggled between trying to silence the 5 ringing alarm clocks (my iPhone, my alarm clock, der's g-shock alarm clock, and our E71s) and trying to grab more sleep. to top it off, my mum was banging madly on the door to wake us up.

-_-

who in the world wakes at 6.30am in the morning to go JB? I think my mum is insane and as much as i tried telling her that we DO NOT need to go so early because there will be no jam, way enough time for breakfast AND shopping before turning up for granduncle's birthday lunch.. the stubborn streak in her refused to budge. not even when i grabbed my iphone and showed her the current traffic at the causeway with absolutely no cars.

well, i ended up delaying the entire process because i dragged my feet and then took my own sweet time to bathe and get ready. when we stepped out at 7.45am, her face was so BLACK and mad.

we went in 2 separate cars so i don't have to hear any of her grumbling or complains (phew!).

true enough, we were in JB in less than 20 mins and with minimal waiting (1-2 cars) while clearing the customs. my brother set off earlier and we ended up waiting for them in JB to turn up before heading for breakfast together.

went through breakfast in a daze and in silence. no pictures because my brain is not yet awake. who needs breakfast when all you need is to sleep?

by the time we are done and ready for shopping, we drove to this huge giant and parked our cars... only to realize that the mall's not opened yet (haha, tell me i'm smart). anyone with the right frame of mind good calculation skills would know that the malls wouldn't open that early and there are more than enough time to eat breakfast and dance around before the malls open.

we ended up sleeping in the car for a grand hour before my brother shouted to say the malls are open! thank goodness for the 2 vehicles because with 2 person to each car, it was comfortable enough for me to grab some snooze.

and because we had so much time to BURN after all the shopping was done, der & me went for a game of bowling while my mum waited impatiently and kept nagging us to finish up the game. Grrr.. sometimes, i seriously cannot stand my mum. too uptight about the wrong things and what's wrong with a game of bowling when the granduncle's house is just 5 mins drive away and she insisted that we have to leave 45mins beforehand? i hate waiting in her context, so i rather make use of my time and get some quality lifestyle.

every year, the sequence is the same. turn up at granduncle's house, car convoy to restaurant in golf course (near masai), eat, car convoy back to house, sing songs, cut cake, eat fruits, and then it's time to say goodbye.

and that's exactly what we did, except that der and me got lost on the way back because we were stuck behind this taxi and the next thing we know... all the cars were gone. BLAH. der & me ended up taking a little tour (and enjoying the process because of the quiet me-time) we managed to get. it was also because i was still angsty from the earlier episode of me being snatched of my usual car seat (the seat beside der!). i was putting the stuff away in the car and ensuring that there were enough seats to accommodate people, only to turn around and see that my seat was taken (hurmph!) and i had to climb into the backseat. gawd. it was so awkward and it is not a short journey and some people are just oblivious to it. he almost even sat on my silly babies (!!) and thankfully der was quick enough to whip them out of the way.

i am mean, but i so want to disinfect the entire seat car after that.

Pictures of lunch.

the cold fried platter

the must-have dessert

me trying to be funny with the king of 寿桃. there was this platter of them that my cousins painstakingly brought in from Singapore (heard its from Crystal Jade). the 寿桃 comes in many different flavours - custard, lotus paste, red bean paste and peanut.

the family portrait taken in '91, where i was not part of. Think i was in a school camp when this was taken.

the celebrations for granduncle.

the bored boy..

random shot of the house

pomegranate in the garden

cousins holding the 寿桃 basket

havaianas and charles and keith

Pigeons by the roadside.

Am so knackered now that I fell asleep halfway through the entry and the boy just woke me with a call cos I had to go for a manicure appointment.

Hmm.. The past 3 days have been a flurry of activities that I haven't had much time to myself at all. I need some sanity and some me-time.

=(

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faylene took this lomo picture of me with her phone yesterday while we were all getting ready to knock off on the last working day of 2009.

love the colors!




ok. off for a midnight movie date with the boy!

from me. we bought this really cute elephant and rabbit that moves and make animal noises for both joel and chloe respectively.

joel was kinda afraid of the elephant trumpeting, but didnt cry. Chloe had a horror day and was desperately escaping from the rabbit. You can view video of chloe and the happenings here.

after giving the presents, we then realised that its for 3 years and up.. and the kids are probably too young for the toys.

guess that's something i need to look out for when i buy presents for kids next time. i am such a kid-idiot.

today, 2 people made me upset.

because they say i am sucha a slacker. that i didn't put in effort to make myself look good. and that i didn't train/tone myself to make myself look gorgeous when i should. and that i am too relaxed. and that i shouldn't be like that.

but.. but.. aint i gorgeous enough?! (LOL)

anyways, i am still VERY affected because they make me feel so small. and fat. and flabby. and ugly. and the 2 of them (shall call them the a-kohs) kept on going on and on about it.

hey.. the 2 of them 夫唱妇随 lor! [this is my secret revenge]

and because of them, i wanted to go jogging tonight. and tomorrow. and maybe the day after tomorrow. i must be hardworking and start toning my flab before i can show them off next time.

27 days countdown starts now.

ho ho ho! i had the last christmas party yesterday at andy's place. it was potluck, so bright and early in the morning, the boy and me trooped over to the market to buy our breakfast, and the fresh ingredients required for the potluck.

the plan was to bring along curry chicken. we bought 2 fat chicken (my mum kept 1 for her own use) and onions. my mum have already helped me buy potatoes so that was out. errm, i must admit that i didn't cook. my mum did, and her curry chicken was fantastic in my opinion, so that was the best food that i thought i could bring over for the folks.

the rest of the food included sushi, a loaf of bread (to compliment the curry chicken), KFC, a lychee martini cake from pine garden, iced cold longans and lychees for desserts and kit kat ice cream cones and yoghurt sticks for everyone to share.

i am the official game master - i brought along my pictionary and taboo!

i also met shaun's 暧昧 for the first time, and also andy's girlfriend! too bad we didn't manage to take any pictures of them! one of them left early and the other came when we were leaving.... argh! someone, please remind me next time!

der and me brought along a shot glass tic-tac-toe set and a game set as gifts for exchange. and here's us with all our exchanged presents!



shaun got our tic-tac-toe set while allan have gotten the game set (which i think was real apt for him!).

the games were fun, because it was so funny - the things that we drew (some totally cannot make it) and people guessing all sorts of rubbish. taboo was a little tricky because it was a singaporean version and it had phua chu kang and zoe tay as the guess words.

we ended the night with the desserts, 2 sleeping babies and many tired souls from laughing too much. it was fun and i wished i had my own house to host parties like that. for now, i can only dream and wait for 5 years because it could become a reality.

during one of the weekend last month, the boy and me trooped over to max pavilion and caught 张韶涵 in action.

seeing her in real life and rather up-close (i was in the VIP seating area), i must say she is really, really petite! and she doned 5" platform heels throughout her entire performance. with that, she was just only slightly taller than the host - 周崇庆. half the time, i was trying to see if i could make out the brand of the shoe (haha!).

i was very tired during the performance and kept yawning. no offence to her singing. it was quite good, just that my body is not up to it, especially in a dimly lit environment.





we ended the night with supper and promptly back into bed.

i am a really bad friend.. because in order to have dinner with me. the 2 of them waited for 4 freaking hours. only to have dinner with me for an hour. it's not really my fault because something went really wrong with my ad at the last minute (what's new, really?), so instead of the scheduled 7.30pm, i was only available at 11pm.

now, that's what friends are for right?!



while making our way down to the lobby (where the boy is also waiting - i feel like a sinner), we went to aston for dinner! wanted to stay longer with the folks but the restaurant was closing. =/

ended the night after an hr of dinner and i felt really bad. really hate my job sometimes.

didn't manage to take any pictures of the food because i stepped out of the car with only my mobile phone and nothing else. much of the dinner was also spent 'milking the cow' and all of us taking turns to beat the high score. i had the high score of the night with 10 tins of milk.

my night didn't end there. der and me went to meet agnes, kevin and huimin and did a trip into JB for lok lok!! we also took the opportunity to wash the car, refuel the car and had 50 sticks of lok lok. super shiok! the main objective was to enjoy the lok lok, but somehow, i think agnes was more satisfied than i was!





sigh. my posts are so out-dated.

Amidst all the work flurry, festivities and activities, it's been a while since I sat down with the boy to have a proper meal. Ha.. If being the last customer and stepping into the restaurant when they are taking their last order is considered proper at all...

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mr Mike (my colleague from the sales/roadshow team) threw a christmas lunch for the team to thank everyone for the hard work put in during the year. the team also returned him a gift of robinson vouchers as a christmas gift.

it was a fun affair because everyone were relaxed and having a longer lunch than usual. it was at Cafe in Action @ Valley Point, and we almost had the entire restaurant to ourselves, lest 2 tables that were outside the restaurant.

it was a 4 course meal with a starter, soup with tonnes of garlic bread, main course and 2 desserts. i almost couldn't stomach anything after the soup!

errrmm.. i feel like a ripper today cos i am also ripping these pictures off my colleague's facebook! these days, i am very lazy to whip out my cammie. something must be wrong with me!


the lunch menu



main course was fish, chicken or steak. i had the steak!

desserts, which i didnt manage to stomach.



thanks mike for the wonderful lunch! it really makes christmas a fun affair!

and darn! i was happily blogging non stop till the boy called and REMINDED me that we were supposed to head down to intercontinental to sign our contract and make a deposit payment! into the bathroom i jump now!

attended janice & shawn's wedding at grand hyatt on the 7 dec. i was super late for the wedding because it was on a weekday (monday) and the fact that i have tonnes of work to clear with an impending big roadshow that very weekend.

i ended up running into the ballroom only when the bride and groom were getting ready to do their march-in!

i also bumped into kevin gay (surprise!) at the lobby after his dinner with his parents. and i thought he was invited to the wedding too (the whole bunch of us used to party together in the past).

met the poly friends (mostly my bestie's classmates) and funny how i was the odd one out from the group, but it was still a joy to catch up with them. everyone is like married or getting married. my.. i guess we have all aged.

the wedding was a beautiful affair (as always) and during their second march-in, janice and shawn danced and waltz-ed their way in and i thought it was a really fun idea to do so. the bride was in a cheery yellow gown and it immensely brighten up the entire affair.




the party kakis, errmm.. hougang girl






the night was short (because i came late) and i just cannot wait for the next meet-up so that i can find out more about everyone!