first day back to work... or not!!!

well, today sup to b the first day back to work, bt woke up with heavy rain (so nice to slp!) and a slight slight sore throat, so decided to call in sick, hehehhehe....

anyway, din slp at all last nite!! i duno y :( mayb its the heavy dinner n i go force myself to lie on bed wif tt rock-hard tummy. so i was jus lyin here n there in the bed n sofa bt cant slp, sigh... so then i decided nt to torture myself by gg to work.

in the aftnn, weather was those chilly cloudy type, so i decided to go lib n research up on the weddin stuff. mum wanted to go along n read newsp, so left dad at hm (cos he drowsy fm med n jus wana slp it off). so then we trotted to the lib wif e trolley bag n laptop. racked thru lk 2.5 rows of weddin books. lib staff came n ask me if the bks on e floor i wan, n i so embrassed... there were lk 20+ books on the floor, hee.. so then i ploughed thru e bks n decided 2 borrow 2 bks on hw to save money n 2 weddin mags. cos those weddin planner bks nt relevant to local leh, all tok abt church, weddin stationary, choose music, deco garden reception etc. for us chinese its e weddin banquet tt's e killer. not e gown mah.

tinkin whether can plan tog wif lian, can hav gp discount or share weddin mags/resources. haha... tinkin mayb tell the whole gp first? bt anyway lian had done much le, so duno if on par anot. well, at least can hav a weddin buddy, haha... well kip in mind to tok 2 her soon.

went to tang jie's (jia jia) weddin

din go to the tea ceremony/lunch reception yest, so got to meet up wif all my dad's side relatives today. as expected, nt much things to talk abt. was feelin bored all the way. lucky got e hapi feelin of wearin the ring to kip me alive thruout the whole dinner. a-too-loud-for-my-liking elder cousin sittin on my left and my mum tokin to another relative on my right. so i jus spend my time mostly observin the deco n the wait staff, hahaha...

took some pics on the weddin on my hp, unfortunately saved it on the new laptop which had prob uploadin pics, so i'll post them here another time.

anyway, the highlight of the dinner was prob me harbouring the secret tt its my turn next yr, bt stil pretending to smile smile wen ppl ask me abt it, hahahahhahaha.... evil lil' me! *hiaks*

broke news to parents

dear told my parents over dinner at my hse yest le, came by aft his first day at CS... surprisingly they din hav much of a rxn, nt lk "reali!??!"... hahaha, i guess tt's me la, cos tt's wat i would say, ahhaha. i was so excited abt tellin them, ahaha, its diff to kip a secret! n i cant stop gigglin wen dear was preparing/waitin to tell them, hehehe....

anyway, now hav to plan abt my resignation, the hse, ROM and chinese dinner... so confused, duno which one to do first or hw to go abt doin it... bt i'm hapi!!!

i'm gonna get married!

dear proposed tis morn, in the new suite tt we moved into.... dear requested for the super suite rm for tis special day so we can spend it in luxury b4 we fly off tom....

i cried wen i saw the ring, n i jus remained in his arms crying for duno how long, haha... he din even have to ask the qn cos i jus started cryin wen i saw the ring between his fingers. then he jus laughed n hugged me, kekeke! yes, of cos later he asked then i said yes n cried somemore, n he slided the ring into my finger.

i was so touched, i cant believe he planned so much surprises for me throughout the whole trip. from accomodation to shopping to food. reali v touched. n basically i dun believe tt its happenin.... u see, he was always tellin me "nt in the near future", cos due to many factors such as his job, his age, my charc, etc... so i always tot tt it would b at least another 2 -3 yrs....

i cant believe it tt i'm gettin married!!!! i'm so hapi now... it feels so blissful to be able to look at him in a new light, and know tt we will be spending our lives together soon. :)

y is work so disrespectful?

y? y? y?

y ist tt ppl dun respect my leave?

y ist tt ppl can jus email email n email me stuff n expect me to finis them wen i'm on leave?

y ist tt ppl dun undst wat my out of ofc mail is tokin abt? y do they stil cont to email me wen i already said i will only b back on 29th oct?

y ist tt mgrs can tell me "its expected tt u will forfeit ur leave" when i had worked so hard to earn these leave?

y do ppl give me disgusted looks wen i say tt i m on long leave?

y do ppl assume tt i m sittin beside my laptop checkin email every sec to wait for shit to drop on my lap?

y do mgrs say tt they do not want a back-up/replacement snr to take over wen i'm leave n then kip dumpin things for me to do wen i'm on leave?


y do i no longer feel a passion for wat i do at work anymore

y do i no longer feel guilty nt answerin calls, nt responding to emails, nt appearin in ofc

we're gg!!!

dear called me up early tis morn n said tt the tiks promo came back!!!! weeeeee!!!! back to $9 - $9!!! we booked the tiks le!!!! tho we spent lk 3hrs tryin to book the tiks cos the sys for the seat selection was down, bt dear solved it finali (called to complain, hahha)... so hapi!!!!!

we're gog to phuket from 20th to 24th to celebrate our 3rd year anniversary!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

going... bt not

dear came over aft dinner jus now n told me decided to go ahead, n book the depart sun instead. hehe, then i asked him y he change his mind aft i persuaded him for 2 days. n he said he was touched tt i was so "guai" n did up so much homework on the alternatives, hahaha... then he went hm to check out his passport details, then i waited for him to call him to call..

then i went online to check on the prices agn n saw tt both the depart n return tiks had increased to $18 each. sigh..... dear say put on hold n jus wait for the promo to come back. sigh.... seems lk they update the system b4 12am.... :<

hope the promo comes back. if nt we're nt gog overseas for the 3rd yr anniversary le.....

tik price increased

the prices shoot up to $18 for the departure date on 20th oct... dear v du lan, so cos i considering 4 so long then missed the $9 offer... :(

me tryin to research up on the other alternatives - silkair, air asia, thai airways...

was tryin to persuade dear mayb compromise on the hotel? or jus take the $18 depart sat? or take the depart sun at $9? sigh.... feel so dui.... dun mind spendin the extra or a bit more trouble to travel to KL if air asia.....

stil tryin to persuade dear to go ahead with the plans, so his plannin wun b wasted. so now the position is turned ard, hahaha... me persuadin him to go...

phuket tour

busy busy tryin to arrange the phuket trip airfare... shld book anot? jetstar $9 promo came back le... dear told me tt on wed, bt was stil worried over the period, so i told him wait til period ba, bt now over le, so shld stil book?

dear spent a lot of effort on the plannin n the accomodation (he's kipin it a secret), so wld b v bad if i dun wana book the tiks now leh... cos i was tinkin its exp, since we went to krabi in feb le. travellin twice to thai in a yr seems a bit over ist? bt dun wana hurt his feelings leh... how how...

period...!

my period finali came!!

last mth was on the 21st, bt as i was goin malacca wif dear on 21 Sep (Fri), i took the pills to "regulate" the menses so that it would come 3 days aft i stop the med. i started takin the med on 19 Sep and ended on 21 Sep, so that it will come on 24 Sep (Mon). but it din :( so i waited and waited for soooo many days. then i took a pregnancy test kit on 26 Sep (Wed), because i cant believe that my period hasn come as it should be (since it is regulated on pills). the result was negative.

so i waited n waited until 1 Oct (Mon), where it would be a week late. went to see doc and doc say wait another week before determinin if any additional tests needed, and tt he cant give me any med to induce the menses. then i went back n started readin up on those early pregnancy stuff and got so scared knowing that test kits might not be able to detect if take too early. the best time was to take at least one week or two weeks aft the missed date.

then i got all flustered and down, esp since mum started askin. then dear suggested he take the day off yest to pei me do another test kit. so the plan was that he will take mc n i go his hse take. bt yest wen i woke up, saw his sms sayin tt he 4got his mum at hm so he'll take the aftnn off instead.

then i got angry n there was a string of all correspondence on the new plan/s. anyway, it ended that i took mrt to tanjong pagar, then he skipped his bosses' lunch then we got back to mrt to bugis, tested negative at hotel intercontinental, then went temple, had lunch n spent the noon surfin (me) and reading comics (him) at the bugis lib. then went his hse 4 dinner, cos he say save $.

oh ya, i dank 2 portions of pineapple juice yest. so to make my body "liang" and make the menses come earlier. ehehe.... guess it must be the pineapple juice or the temple helps then! :) good! now we can start plannin for phuket trip le, now tt a burden is off my mind :)
WEEEEE~~~

pics 4 malacca trip n dear's bday

i stil cant manage to use the stupid upload pic function, so i tried to do it on the old ofc laptop. it works, n i can drag the pics, bt the stupid comp jus HANGED in the middle of my typin n despite my numerous restartin the laptop, it jus kip sayin tt "there is no OS avai" -.- huh???? then i tried to use back the new ofc laptop, bt using the "edit html" option, whereby i hav to cut n paste the html codes 4 the pics to where i wan them. bt its soooo ma fan!!!!! argh!! so now i'm back to usin the old laptop, typing EVERYTHING first then insertin the pics in between the typed paras loh. arghhhh!!!! i asked justin abt his blog posts n he got no probs leh!! y my laptop lk tt!!! argh!!!!

anyway, now i jus resign to fate la. i jus use the old laptop n try my best to do up a presentable post. hmph.

nvm, hapi tots hapi tots. ok, so here r the pics to update the earlier posts:

Malacca trip - 21 sep 07 to 23 sep 07

tart tart shop - beautiful tarts tt r avai in many many flavours! i lk the peppermint cheese, durian cheese, n choc chip ones. din try the others tho, hahaha.... i lk cheese tarts!!! they oso sell gd n reasonably priced fruit shakes, n i had the mango one twice wen i was there, yum yum. aids digestion wen u r overeatin on overseas trip too, hehehe... guess no chance to eat the tarts agn le, since dear quit his dbs job plus the malacca hse is sold off by dbs le, so no more cheap chalet to motivate us to go le, hahah....

captiol satay "lok lok" - this is the super long q steamboat shop, whose "soup" base is the satay

sauce. b prepared to wear thin clothes cos its hot wen the stove/fire is directly abv ur thighs wen u sit down :( bt the food is gd!! i missed eatin lok lok wen we came back fm malacca (first time ate wen go wif dear's parents), so i specially requested tt we go eat agn tis time, hehehe.... and its easy to c y the q is at least half an hr wait cos there is only lk 8 tables in the shop. *bleah* seems lk with the numerous newspaper n mag articles inside the shop doesn improve business sense? they can easily expand to the small road beside or the empty neighbouring shophouses' front lane mah. well, guess reali no business sense *shrugs*

bus tickets - these r reali the old type of bus tiks tt i rem seein wen i was a small kid, ahha... pay wen u go up the bus n the driver tears off one of the tiks indicatin ur fare. these tiks r for our return trip to Malacca Sentral bus interchange to go back to SG. RM0.70 for a ride in an old n rickety bus, v '80s feeling!

Dear's bday - 28 sep 07

city view - taken fm ferry departin the Marina South Pier, gg to Kusu island n St. John Island. can c all the city skyscrapers in the foreground building the IR.

information board at kusu island - describin the history, size, map of the island. interestin story abt the chinese n malay fisherman tt got saved by a giant turtle durin a night of rainstorm.

giant turtle - purportedly there are 2 giant turtles on the island, bt hard to spot them as they lk to hide in the caves for shade. well, as luck would hav it, dear spotted tis giant turtle swimmin out jus as we were leavin, ahhaha... its swim speed is fast!!! amazing.



baby turtles - kept by the chinese temple on the island, these baby turtles feed on vegs such as kang kong n cai xin. there is another open air turtle observatory tt is nt under the temple's, with lotsss more turtles there. one even waved at me, hahaha!!!

nice seaview - calm blue waters with an occasional tanker passin by with loads of cargo. there are beach benches with tables around the area, so its convenient to sit in the shade n admire the sea.

ferry entrance at st john island - jus tot of takin tis pic at the jetty, ahhaha....

map of st john island - sm parts of the island under-goin construction now, n i was tryin to find out fm the map which were the locations tt ppl sighted dolphins. sigh, unfortunately, the areas are under construction n cordoned off, so din get to sight any dolphins. no coral reefs sightin too. :<

marina south pier - back to mainland! take bus 402 to go back to marina bay mrt... wat a day!

one of dear's bday present - pooh pouch

wow, wat a long n tedious post! hate uploadin pics!!! :(