Huh? Chicken pox?

Last Thursday, a small blister-like rush appeared near my armpit. Think nothing of this tiny red rush and I even poke it open. Check my other arm, a few red dots. Still think nothing of it because I attribute these rushes to maybe insects bites. Later that evening, went for a run. Completed 4.2Km and I felt more tired and fatigue as compared to my other runs.

Friday, still feeling very tired and fatigue. Went for a buffet and then to a wedding show at Bugis. Went my gf place and starts to ran a fever.

Saturday, rested at home the whole day. Fever on-off. At night noticed more red spots coming up. Darn, make me realised that I might already be down with chicken pox! Rush to see the doctor at 9 pm, clinics all closed.

Sunday, saw doctor first thing in the morning. Doctor said, "Yeah, this is chicken pox!" I was, what the..... chicken pox at age 30? Doctor says any age also can get chicken pox. He said he got it at age 20.

So, another two weeks of medical leave. The last time I went for two weeks medical leave is just last month lor. Darn suay lah.

So now at home, suffering from my itch and unsightly marks. Going to ban my mirror for the next few days....

Christmas cheers

Christmas comes and goes quickly this year...

Did not really celebrate much except for a simple steamboat dinner with my family on 23rd Dec. Not that our family celebrates Christmas, but I think we are just taking the opportunity for a little family dinner. Bought a Swenson durian ice-cream log cake. I must say this log cake is nice. Everyone of us at least had three rounds of this log cake.

Well, so Christmas is over already. Next, will be the New Year holidays. After that, Chinese New Year. Yipeee!! Our second last CNY where we will be receiving Ang Baos.

Darn, I dun feel like giving Ang Baos, yet.

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"Last Christmas", my all time favourite Christmas song. Enjoy!

Cut me up....

When someone is down on his luck, he can be really down.

I had just recovered from my surgery and went back to work. However, I am going for another medical appointment come Tuesday. This time for another problem.

Same hospital, same clinic, that spelt trouble for me.

This time round, they may (most possibly) cut me up again.

Darn, hope it will be nothing serious.

Nevertheless, will push any more further surgery till next year.

Going back to work

After spending more than 2 weeks on hospital leave, it is about time to go back to work. Went for my review today and doctor gave me another 2 days of MC, for today and tomorrow. Therefore, I will going back to office on Friday. The next review is 2 months from now on 6 Feb 2008. What the fish, 6 Feb is CNY's Eve right? Do not think I have the time to go hospital on a CNY's Eve.

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Last night watched a Beyond's interview conducted by a China TV station. This interview was conducted in the year 2005 when Beyond was having their last concert in China. In this interview, Beyond talk about their beginning, their previous jobs, how they lost Ka Kui and life after Ka Kui. A very touching interview in which the host, a Beyond's fan himself, cried. Me too, teared. I guess any Beyond's fans who had watched this interview will drop a few tears. Do not believe me? Watch the interview then. You have been warned.

Floating Head

This video is darn funny. Must on your speakers!

Wedding Preparation

Wedding preparation is really not easy. There seems to be 1001 things to be done. Especially now that we are not signing with any bridal studios, even more plannings are required. We need to make our own wedding gown, evening gown, maybe cheongsum, my suit, got a florist, look for make-up artist etc etc etc....

The above are for the actual day wedding dinner and also photo-shoot. Then there is the ROM to worry about. Then furthermore got other traditions to follow like Guo Da Li (纳 彩 吉 日 吉 时) or known as Betrothal Day. This is a formal meeting between the parents of the perspective bride and groom. The groom's family presents various proposal gifts that represents fertility and prosperity in Chinese Culture, which is also known as "Grand Gift". Thus, the two are considered officially engaged. So what gifts must we prepare? Look below..

Gifts prepared by Groom:

1) Wedding Dinner Invitation Cards
2) Cans of pig trotters
3) Red packet $xxxx (bride to return $?)
4) Wedding cakes
5) 2 bottles of Martell with Yuan coin in it
6) 1 pair of Dragon & Phoenix Double Candles (dragon for bride side) & (phoenix for groom side) with Yuan coin
7) Gold - Si Dian Jin
8) 12 Oranges (Bride to return ? of it)
9) 2 Big basket (for groom to carry gifts)
10) Ang pow for match maker (if any)
11) Longan and Lianzi

Gifts prepared by Bride:

1) Pants for groom
2) 2 bottles of oranges juice in exchange for the Martell
3) Return some cans pig trotters & Oranges
4) Towels wrapped up as presents for groom's grandparents, parents and sibling with Yuan coins in it
5) 2 Bedlamps with Xi (either battery operated or electrically operated)
6) 2 Tea set (for groom's side and bride's side)
7) Xi stickers (include 2 big red ones to paste on main wooden door & 1 gold on masterbed & small ones to paste everything)
8) Descendants Ruler (supposedly to measure ur life together)
9) Ribbons (3 different sizes, big one to tie pillows)
10) Fans (1 pair)
11) 1 sewing box - 12 color threads, measurement tape, scissors. NO NEEDLES INSIDE!! BUY UR OWN NEEDLES AFTER THE WEDDING (12 colors to represent colorful life "tuo zi tuo cai", black/white thread to represent "bai tuo tao lao")(scissors dun use for cutting so soon)
12) Yan Ji (include 10 big & 10 small)
13) Variety of gold jewellery in a box for bride (has to show to the in laws, then bride keep after actual day)
14) Longans, red dates,lotus seeds, rock sugar, yuan bing for groom
15) Red packet, pigleg & cake for matchmaker (if any)
16) Red packet (for bride)

The above serves as a guide but can be really scary to think that we must prepare all these. Lucky my future-in-laws not very particular. And yah, while doing research discovered something interesting. During Guo Da Li, roasted pig is given by the groom to the brides family to signify that the bride is still a virgin. Haha.. no wonder very few people are giving roasted pig now!

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I must said that, luckily, our planning starts really early, we (or rather I) are super kiasu. Can take time to surf the net for information. Actually, it is fun too. Wonder where those brides got their information from during the pre-internet era.

Scary and shivering

Well, time passed really fast, it had been one week since my surgery. Well, not fully recovered, but should be doing fine. However, these two days seems bad, more blood then before. Hope there is no infection.

Anyway, had undergone general anesthesia for this surgery. The experience is scary. During my school days, I had pushed numerous patients into the operating theater, but it was my first been pushed into one. I must say it is quite scary as I will not know what will be happening to me next. Furthermore, the room is darn cold that I cannot stop shivering.

Nevertheless, while laying in the operating theater, I was wondering how are they going to anesthetized me? I was guessing it must be from the drip on my arm, maybe by some lethal injection? Ha.. but I was wrong. It was by some gas administered via a face mask. I must say this is really potent, because after the 2nd breath, I was feeling high liao. By the 4th or 5th breath, I was totally in dreamland. Medical is darn good now. Bby the time I woke up, the operation is over, no pain what-so-ever. But well, the pain comes after the anesthesia goes off.

The waking up feeling sucks big time. It is just like after I had drowned 20 cans of Tiger beer. Feeling high and nausea. The anesthetic had told me that after the operation, 10% of the patient will have vomitting. I guess I am those unlucky 10%. Puke after operation and even inside the cab. Lucky I was smart enough to have a vomit bag with me......

Well, I was lucky to have someone taking care of me. All from the way from the hospital to back home. She was really at my bark and call. Serving me water, buying me donuts.... Thanks dear....

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Basically, I am still recovering. Going back for review on the 12th. Hopefully all should be fine. Wanna get back to work soon. Sometimes can really get boring doing nothing but eat and sleep at home..... and of course shit.

Lost Auction

Beyond Autographed "白板" CD. Not for sale. Only distributed to DJs.

Some of you may know that I am a collector of Beyond's CDs and LPs. To collect some of these CDs, the rarer ones, I will go online and bid for them. From Hong Kong, Taiwan and even Japan yahoo. However, in recent months, I had stopped placing any bids, in an attempt to save up money. However, on-off, I will still go online to check some of these auctions.

However, a week ago, a CD appears in Taiwan yahoo, something that I really like. The autographed CD of the 4-some. Something which is still lacking in my collection and wanted it as my Christmas gift. :) But too bad did not win the bid. The most I am willing to pay is S$300. However, I bid till NTD7900 which is about S$360. I might just win the bid at NTD8001. But decided to give it up after consideration. S$360 for a CD may seems crazy for some. But I have a friend who paid S$500 for a Beyond CD. Haha... CD collectors are so rich.

Anyway, I am glad that I did not win this CD. S$360 should be able to make me a nice and simple suit... :p

Must think of the big picture......

KPO Readers....

For anyone who is still interested in the poor gal's blog I mentioned in the previous post can read "her" entries here.

It now seems that the gal had sink into further depression since the day her blog generated publicity, in forums.

Sad Blog...

These past days, weeks, months, I had been surfing Singaporebride forum almost everyday without fail. Sometimes, I will read wonderful stories about other person's love stories, other times there will be failed marriages and many broken hearts.

There will be all sort of stories in the forum. There was a gal who wished that her hubby-to-be mother will die early. Some face problems with their hubby siblings while even many many other who face problems with their in-laws. Some back out from their marriages just two weeks before their weddings. There is even a gal who is thinking of cancelling her marriage because she just discovered that her hubby-to-be has Micropenis!! What the *#%#.... Anyway, the morale of this story here is, please test drive early before you agree to a marriage.

So what makes me blog what I am blogging now? No. I am not having cold feets about mine own wedding preparation. Decided to write down my thoughts after I read this blog, link from Sgbrides. This gal, pregnant and happily married till hubby go for overseas for THREE (3) bloody short weeks for work training. Came back with a change of heart and left her wife, and his own flesh and blood. And the new gal this guy is in love with, got a hubby of her own. Machim Hong Kong TVB drama hoh? But really felt sad for her... Read her entries here....

Oosh la la.....

Went to Oosh at Dempsey Rd with a group of friends for dinner and some drinks. Well, the place is nice with a small man-made waterfall beside our dinning area. The food is not fantastic but still can do. But I must say the price is about expensive. Me and my dear ordered a pizza and a pasta which cost us $49. Normally, for this price at a normal restaurant in town, we should be able to get two drinks with desert as well. But no complains here as the ambiance is good, can have dinner under the night sky. Should be a good place for couples or friends to just enjoy themselves there.

Anyway, while having dinner, saw this girl with thick make-up. She is quite pretty but the make-up really puts ones off. She looks familiar and one of our friends said that she is Dawn Yang (or click here). Just then, I just remembered seeing her in the Maxim magazine earlier in the day (yah, I was reading magazine during my office hours, haha). She also model for FHM and a blogger. Some said that every part of her body had undergone the knife. Wonder if its true......

After dinner adjourned to the 'live' band area. Nice place with a gal singing jazzy songs. She is pretty good at it too. Over here opened a bottle of $180 wine! Darn it, each glass comes out to $30. So we spent quite abit for this dinner and drinks.

This type of semi high-class wine-and-dine doesn't seems suitable for me, at least for now, when I am trying to save up. At the end of the day, I will tell myself that it is always good to pamper ourselves a little. I dun mind spending this sort of money again, with the company that we had......

Can hear my wedding bells?

I know.

My wedding is about 1.5 years later. Still long way to go.

However, preparation had already started.

Started to read sgbrides everyday.

Listening to recommendation to songs that can be used on my day.

So, after listening to few songs, I can imagine myself doing the march-in.

Hmmm.... not only my dear fantasize alot, I also do fantasize now.

Maybe we can push our wedding to next March instead? :p

First Contract Signed

Today, we signed our very first contract, in preparation for our BIG day.

We decided to sign this contract first because we really like their work. So, signed now because they will be up-ing their fees soon. This contract we signed is from the "one eye click". This is a professional photography studio set up by a young couple. They are darn friendly and not pushy unlike most bridal studios we visited. Most of all, we really like their work even though we knew that we will spend much more using their services.

Anyway, we took both their bridal package (both indoor and outdoor shots) and photography on the actual day wedding. Total after discount is at a price of $3000++*. Had already put down a deposit of $1600. I had offered to pay more first so as to reduce my burden later on. To add, this price does not include all those wedding gowns, suit, flowers and make-up as this studio only offers photography. So we need to source around for all those wedding gowns. I estimated that will cost at least $2500 to $3500/-.

Money money money..... hope my money will be well-spent.

* Do not want to state the exact price here...

Back to Work

Today marks the end of my 12-day course, so tomorrow going back to work already. I must say that this course is truly insightful, a grade A course all must attend. Not only we got the chance to interact with other agencies but also find out what their job is all over. It is always nice to know our counterparts from other agencies. There were even plans to bring the course participants for overseas trip next year. Too bad, I will not have the chance anymore...

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This past week had been pretty hectic for me. Had been going to wedding shows and bridal studios. Now we had confirmed our dinner venue and also the photography studio that we will be going to. We had also short-listed 2 bridal studios for their wedding package. Things had been going along smoothly....

Wedding Show

Attended the Wedding Show today at Marina Square. There was also a bridal fashion show. Some of the female bridal gown are nice. Also observed that male black suit is a bit boring. Prefered the grey suit and white suit on show. If got a chance to tailor-made my suit, I may go for my favourite colour, pink. Should be pretty unique. But is it that there is a saying that man wears pink on their second marriage? I also don't know.

Anyway, some of sales person of the bridal shops there is really like a pest. They will come after you and irritate you to let them present their packages. They will stick to you like leeches and not let go of you even when you totally ignore them. Some really turns me off. Why can't they just let the couples quietly take a look at their portfolios and if their photos are really good, the couple will surely wanna find out more. No need to keep on pestering the couples.

To keep the story short, we saw something we like. This shop, "oneeyeclick" offers professional photographers who specialises in taking photos. Their styles are really unique and personalised. Each couple's album are customised according to them. The photos taken are very lively, colourful and very nice. In short, we (I like it more, hee) love their style.

However, the problem is that this shop does not have wedding gown and suits in their package as they are photography shop. So, if we signed our bridal shots with them, we need to source for our own wedding gown, and pay more... Sigh.... hope can work something up.

阿雅回来了!

She is back! 阿雅 of 我猜我猜我猜猜猜！Enjoy!

Happy Children's Day!!

And before I forget,

Happy Children's Day to all the kids out there!!

A day delicated to all children of Singapore.

Anyway, different countries, celebrates Children's Day on different dates.

Out of office

I will be away from work for the next 12 days. Nice time to get away from work. Sometimes, it is good to go for courses. You not only learn new knowledge but also make new friends, which is important.

Today, when I turned out for my course, someone called my name. I was greatly surprised when I saw a familiar face. He is Kenneth, brother of my very good friend, Sandra, who is currently staying in Aussie. Really nice to see familiar faces on my first day, even though, I already knew those people from my office.

Anyway, had a fairly good start to the course. My course mates seems sporting as well. So, looking forward to the rest of the course.

In addition, going to start my jog again. Had stopped for about 2 weeks after I last ran for my IPPT. My left knee is painful. Actually, before my IPPT, I already knew my left knee is slightly injured. But, I had put on a knee-cap and ran thru' the 2.4Km. As a result, my knee was sore for a few days. Now, more or less ok, will start the jog again. Will probably get the widely recognised drug which is good for the knees, glucosamine (is this how the drug is spelt?).

Back to normal

Finally, after 4 days taking public transport, I got my car back. As predicted, after sending car to workshop, the interior sure dirty and dusty. So, had to clean up on Sat, I hope. Anyway, the workmanship is not too bad, is quite satisfy with the repair job. Seriously speaking, not much repair was been done as all parts damaged are changed to new ones. Furthermore, all the small dents had been mended. My car looks new now! Even sent for polish, wow haha..

I am just glad that I need not take the MRT tomorrow. The morning rush hour is really terrible. I rather stuck in a jam where I can be all alone to enjoy my radio programme. No need to face kiasu aunties who would kill for a place to sit...

Anyway, during these few days. We only took cab twice. One cab trip was pretty funny. This driver was commenting how lousy and poor driver ladies are. I TOTALLY agree with that majority of ladies aren't good driver. So, this cab driver was saying, female drivers would always do a sudden stop while on the road. This do happens but I am laughing inside my heart lor. Why? Because the cab driver is the pot calling the kettle black. Drivers will know what I mean. Cab drivers are the most dangerous on the road. Yap, even more dangerous than female drivers... :p

Dilemma.. dilemma... dilemma...

So, some of you should know that we (me and Yeok) had been looking around for a place to host our wedding dinner. Our two shortlisted hotels are Furama Riverfront (Old Apollo) and Orchard Parade Hotel. On Sat, we visited both hotels again, to view the actual setup of the wedding. Here how it goes.

Furama Riverfront

Nice nice nice.... it has it own reception area, a swimming pool by its side and a forest on the other side. The wedding theme is super nice, with nice PINK table-top. The wedding favour is very special and cute (I will not disclose the wedding favours here as we might chose this place). Both of us like this place. However, the minus point is that this ballroom got 3 pillars. Therefore, about 6-8 tables view of the stage will be block. However, there are two big projector screens to compensate the blocking. Food wise, we are allow to have more choices here. Able to pick and choose from a fairly wide list.

Orchard Parade Hotel

Not too bad, but not as nice as Furama. A topical ballroom with 2 thin pillars. So, little blockage if any. Wedding favours, not much choice. It is either the boring chocolate or a more unique postage stamps with the couple's wedding picture. The resturant is under Tung Lok, so food should be not bad. However, the food menu is more at least fixed. Depending on which price you pay, you will have to follow their menu.

Overall

We know that Furama offers a better deal. Nice and special place. However, the pillars put us off. Sought the advice of my big brother and big sister in office, I may just go for Furama. Got to make a decision by tonight. Orchard Parade Hotel wanted an answer by tommorow. They said that someone else has asked about the same date as us and willing to put down a deposit.

So, who is willing to sit at the tables behind the pillars?? :p

Phenomenon came true

Today, before I started driving, I offered flowers to my Buddha which is placed inside my car. When I was doing that, I had a bad phenomenon. I had a feeling that I would get into an accident....

This is the second time I had such a feeling. The last time I had this feeling was a few months back. During that time, I was closed to an accident. A motorcycle skipped just beside my car. Did not hit my car, such, avoided the accident.

For today, it was different...

I was about 200 metres away from office, when I was kissed on my rear by a lorry. Really kanna accident liao. It was just infront of the coffeeshop below our office. The damage is not too bad but still cost over $1.5K for repairs. The lorry decided to settle in private with me. Hope can get the full amount by tml.

Feeling darn suay and sian. Because I need my car, for work and for the weekend. Had some programmes planned. Anyway, it is always good to take the public transport once in a while....

My car should be ready by Monday. So, still need to take MRT to work on Monday. Sian Sian Sian... I hate the morning hour rush......

Great sense of achievement.

Today, I took my IPPT, for the second time for FY2007. Managed to get a "Silver" Award. To me this is a truly great achievement. Why would I consider this an achievement? The very reason is that for the pass few years, at least 5 years. I had always struggle to even pass my IPPT. For the last 4 years, I would only passed my IPPT on my 4th or 5th attempts. I couldn't blamed anyone else because I would never trained for my IPPT. Nevertheless, I made it a point to pass my IPPT every year. I took it as one of my responsibilities to do so.

This year, I told myself that I would train hard for my IPPT. So since Feb this year, I had started to jog regularly. Make it a point to ran at least 2-3 times a week. I have already come to the point that I will feel uneasy if I do not jog at least 2 times a week. So, a fairly healthy lifestyle I am leading now.

Back to the IPPT. Had actually attempted a test in July. My timing then was 13.26 mins, something like that. Was fairly disappointed as I had took pains in training for it. Anyway, told myself that maybe my training is not enough. So, had put in more training. The extra training did bear fruits. Today, my timing was a cool 11.56 mins. I even punched my hand into the air as I crossed the finishing line telling myself that "I had did it!"

My target was to achieve 12 mins. So anything less than 12 mins is good timing.

After this IPPT, I will still carry on my jogging. May try to train for the half marathon next Dec.

After personal target, for the year 2008 :)

Spiderman...

After more than 10 years of not touching the wall, finally managed to do so today. The last time I did rock climbing was in my poly days. Yap, poly days again. So, was pretty excited when my friend jio me for rock climbing at West Coast. Decided to take the beginners' course as I do not know how to belay. Anyway, it is good to learn the foundation all over again. Well, for the record, a belayer is the one at the bottom of the wall holding the rope to prevent the climber from falling.

Had a good time climbing up some walls. Rock climbing is both challenging and strenuous physically. A pretty good sport to take up IMO. Anyway, made two new friends today. They are friends of my friend. Both gals and still believed to be singles. Any takers?

Was really tired after the climb and came home early to watch Arsenal derby match against all time rivals Tottenham Hotspurs. A good match, Arsenal came from behind to win 3-1 to go top of the table. Hope their form continues....

Francesc Fabregas, scorer of 1 of the 3 goals. He got 5 goals already this season, all from midfield.

Sense of nostalgic, again

My sense of nostalgic kicks in again, today. Watch few games of 3-on-3 basketball games at office. I could almost felt myself playing on the court, back to my good old days.

The basketball court used to be my playground, eat, shit and sleep there. Let me think, that was at least about 10 years ago, during my poly days. During those happy moments, I have at least 3 basketballs, 2 hidden in lockers inside campus and the other at home. Well, the basketballs need to be hidden in lockers because we do not have any "official" lockers. We take which ever locker is empty and keep our ball inside. Haha..

Well, during that time, we will play basketball games every Fridays. Unspoken rules that the court belongs to us on that day. Almost everyday, we will play between classes. And being in a female dominated course, most of my playmates are, of course, females. Mind you, my female friends can play really well! Dribbling, chest-pass, overhead pass, ale-hoop and even dunk the ball! Well, the last one, I made it out.

Anyway, had some really good times taking part in games during my poly years. Can say that I was pretty much a sportsman then. Any ball games, I will be there. Street soccer lah, 3-on-3 basketball lah, 5-on-5 basketball lah, captain's ball lah and even Mixed netball! If you wanna play netball, please do not play in centre position. It is the most tiring position to play in. So was a pretty much recognise figure in campus.. hahaha... Always stands out among the gals because I will always be the only thorn among the roses.

Those were the days..... :)

I am 19!!

Had a simply birthday lunch yesterday at NYNY in Citylink. Had always like their food. However, was rather disappointed with their service yesterday. Was rather pathetic, given my high expectation of good service. Still, the food is good and enjoy our lunch-dinner there. Well, we did wasted some food, the mushroom soup. We ordered th BIG bowl and it was really darn big bowl. In the end, we only managed to take 1/4 of it. The soup was supposedly nice. However, it was so darn big bowl that we felt so disgusted by it. We swear to keep away from any mushroom soup till at least I turn 30!!!?!

After food at NYNY, went shopping for my MP3 player, my birthday present. Ended up at Creative in Marina Sq and wanted a simple player to accompany me during my jogging session. Decided to get the 2GB Zen V2 at $149. Sad to say the store at Marina Sq only had one color left, PINK! Yah, I always seems to have pink color in my life. The pink MP3 player does look girly and yah, gay. Actually, I dun mind the color as I am going to get a armband to hold the player during my jog. I would had gotten it if not for the armband which cost $45. So no pink MP3 player for me, just yet.

Anyway, got the color I wanted, black with green button at a cheaper price of $139 at Gain City near Creative. So, thanks dear for my present!!!

Count down begins...

The big count down had began, living the last few days of my 20s.

In a few days time, I will hit the big 30. No longer can tell people that I am in my 20s already. That is so sad. I know that once guys hit 30, 40 will come at a fast and furious rate. And before you know it, you are already in your 50s. Times really flies like nobody business.

But, however, got to add that, getting old is not a big deal. Like wine, getting older could mean getting better. At least, experience and maturity does come with age.

Ok, I am done with my self-console.

I wanna be forever 18.

I wanna be forever young.

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Forever Young

Let's dance in style, lets dance for a while
Heaven can wait we're only watching the skies
Hoping for the best but expecting the worst
Are you going to drop the bomb or not?
Let us die young or let us live forever
We don't have the power but we never say never
Sitting in a sandpit, life is a short trip
The music's for the sad men
Can you imagine when this race is won
Turn our golden faces into the sun
Praising our leaders we're getting in tune
The music's played by the mad men
Forever young, I want to be forever young
Do you really want to live forever, forever and ever
Forever young, I want to be forever young
Do you really want to live forever?
Forever young

Some are like water, some are like the heat
Some are a melody and some are the beat
Sooner or later they all will be gone
Why don't they stay young
It's so hard to get old without a cause
I don't want to perish like a fading horse
Youth's like diamonds in the sun
And diamonds are forever
So many adventures couldn't happen today
So many songs we forgot to play
So many dreams swinging out of the blue
We'll let them come true
We'll let them come true
Forever young, I want to be forever young
Do you really want to live forever, forever and ever
Forever young, I want to be forever young
Do you really want to live forever, forever and ever
Forever young, I want to be forever young
Do you really want to live forever?

Its my life......

These two days could be considered well-spent. Had company's Dinner on 31 Aug and went to visit 3 hotel venues on 1 Sep. Must say that I am pretty satisfied at what I had seen today.

31 Aug

My company's D & D. Decided not to wear the normal boring office wear and opted for something different. I must say pretty gay-look huh. At least got comments saying I look gay.. Ha.. Anyway, we were sitted at one corner of the ball-room. Did not expect the emcee to come all the way to our table and picked me to go on stage. Was really darn malu. Lucky, the emcee had picked three other persons that I knew too. Well, decided to turn my embarrassment into fun instead. So, had a pretty wild time "playing" the PINK guitar on stage. We played to the tunes of Bon Jovi, Its my life. Overall, the dinner is fun, although I prefer the one last year.

1 Sep

Today, went to three hotels. Pretty like the one at Orchard Parade Hotel. M Hotel looks good too. So now, we had pretty cut down our choices to Orchard Parade, Furama Riverfront and maybe M Hotel. Will do some viewings of each hotels' wedding setup before making our final decision.

Also watched "Ratatouille". Nice show about a rat becoming a chief in Paris. Recommended to those who like animation like Finding Emo, Monster Inc etc.

Happy Teachers' Day!!

Let me keep it short here.

For those who had left school for a long time, Teachers' Day falls on 1st Sep.

So Happy Teachers' Day to all teachers!!!

Happy Teachers' Day, my dear.

Time to show your appreciation to your teachers.

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Hmmmm... "it's my life, its now or never... you aren't gonna live forever......" Hmmm.. hmmm... hmmm....

The Bear

Waterbear is really sensitive to one's feelings. This morning, just after talking 5 mins with him, he can sense that I am down. Initially told him that I am alright as I do not really like to bring problems outside work to office. But guess that I can't hide my feelings from him. And yah, I DID had some problems. As you can see, DID is in past tense... so now I have no more problems.. Well, thanks Waterbear..

Anyway, today finally got my Royce chocolate. Had wanted to get a box on Tuesday lunch time. But did not reach our location at Suntec City. The rain kept us at Shaw Tower and we did not have any brolly with us. Today, I drove to Suntec City again. Darn it, Suntec car park is closed?!? Yah, I know that today is the start of Comex, but did not expect so many people on the first day. Gave up finding a lot at Marina area and once again returned empty handed.

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Sometimes, when you cannot achieve a goal by yourself, you need friends to help you. As Waterbear think I must be pretty desperate to get those chocolates, he volunteered to help me get it. He is doing some work around the area and he said it is easier to get a lot. And darn, thanks to him, I got the chocolates. Felt bad when I saw him coming back to office with a tired face. Anyway, big thanks to you. This entry is for you...

Anyway, for the record, the chocolates are meant as a Teacher's Day gift, for my dear.

ZZzzzZZzzzzz....

These few days, do not know why also, I have been really sleepy at work. I had skip my coffee on Monday. So I blamed my sleepiness on the lack of coffee. Yesterday, had a coffee right in the morning and even had a super duper early 2nd coffee break at 1030 am. Still, I can't last through the whole day. Darn sleepy at 3pm. Today is the same thing, by 4pm, I am half alive. Really bad these few days. I think must blame the weather. Today, rain rain rain the whole morning.... Then, after my lunch the sun is super BIG loh. What kinda of weird weather is that.

Now, I am getting sleepy. Think will turn in early tonight. But then hor, Arsenal is playing tonight at 3am. 2nd leg of t he Cha mp io n s L e a .......zzzZZZZzzzzZzzzzzz......

Call from the other side

Today while busy answering some enquiries at 1805 hours, my phone rings. It was a gal's voice, she is Irene. Well, WTF is this Irene? Ok, she said she is from the recruitment side and asking about my application for GPO. She said I missed out on my diploma transcript. She asked to fax her a copy tmr. To be honest, I was kinda of shock. Firstly, I always thought that our (I mean mine) application would just be sort of be collected and maybe burnt for the seventh month. And secondly, why would recruitment side worked OT for my stupid application?? ha..

Anyway, my chances remained low...

Finally, managed to meet my dear after more than a week. A happy reunion, at least. :) We missed each others so much...

Dun be mistaken, we are just too busy to meet up during the last week....

Fruity Friday

Had a rather fruity yesterday. Work was great. Completed my task before dateline and needless to say lunch was great too. Had BUFFET lunch again. Since I changed office, the amount of buffet lunches I had increased tremendously... haha.. However, I had not put on any weight, as yet. It must be due to the weekly runs and gym sessions I had each week.

So yesterday been Friday, was on relax mood after lunch when new assignment came in. I must say that we did a fairly good job, an eye-opener for both of us. In my line of work, I am always learning something new everyday. I really love what I am doing now. It is always good to love your job, isn't it?

After completing our tasks, the durians store lining along the street really makes me tempted to grab some. My parents love durians too. So in the end, bought 3. Wanted grade D101 but the season already over. So settled for the common D24 for the price of $20. Also grab 1kg of "lan sak", darn sweet. Waterbear also bought a pack of durians. Are we expecting some durian puffs next?

Enjoy your weekends, folks.

《旅行的意义》

歌手名稱： 陳綺貞
歌曲名稱： 旅行的意義

你看過了許多美景
你看過了許多美女
你迷失在地圖上每一道短暫的光陰

你品嚐了夜的巴黎
你踏過下雪的北京
你熟悉書本裡每一句你最愛的真理

卻說不出你愛我的原因
卻說不出你欣賞我哪一種表情
卻說不出在什麼場合我曾讓你動心
說不出離開的原因

你累計了許多飛行
你用心挑選紀念品
你蒐集了地圖上每一次的風和日麗

你擁抱熱情的島嶼
你埋葬記憶的土耳其
你流連電影裡美麗的不真實的場景

卻說不出你愛我的原因
卻說不出你欣賞我哪一種表情
卻說不出在什麼場合我曾讓你分心
說不出旅行的意義

你勉強說出你愛我的原因
卻說不出你欣賞我哪一種表情
卻說不出在什麼場合我曾讓你分心
說不出離開的原因

勉強說出你為我寄出的每一封信
都是你離開的原因
你離開我
就是旅行的意義

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The current song that is playing is 《旅行的意义》 by 陈绮贞 or Cheer Chen. She is a talented Taiwanese songwriter / singer. I super like her crystal clear voice and her lyrics are always meaningful. She is super popular in Taiwan but she seems to be an unknown in Singapore. Probably because she seldom do 宣传 here.

She will be coming for a concert next month, I think. If she had came two years ago, most probably I would had bought the most expensive tickets to her concert. But I guess she comes at a wrong time. This is the time when I am saving my money. So, sorry Cheer, can't support you at your concert. It is your lost, not mine. Wow haha..

Her latest "Live" CD 《花的姿態》is good too. Anyone looking for a nice album can consider this CD. Available at all major music stores, while stocks last!

Rot away

Today is a Sunday.

Sunday should be a family day.

But look at the weather, rain whole day.

Nice weather to sleep the entire day.

So let me rot, the whole Sunday.

First Viewing

Today went for our first viewing of venues to host our wedding dinner. Went to Furama Riverfront, a hotel in Havelock Road.

Saw one of the rooms, Mercury Room at level five. This is a new ballroom which can cater to about 30-33 tables. The bad points of this room is that it got low celling and there are 3 pillars inside the room. But they got projector screens to show 'live' the events that will take place on the stage. The plus point of this room is that it is beside a swimming pool. Can host the cocktail reception by the pool side. Seems to be not bad.

Furthermore, also viewed the bigger ballroom, Venus. I quite like this room as it had high ceilings, no pillars blockage and the space is so much bigger. However, the minus points are that we must booked a min of 28 tables and the price is higher for this room. Well, do not want to take the risk to book 28 tables although we may even need more than that.

Overall, is pretty satified with this place. The hotel also have some pretty nice and cute wedding favours. Still in the consideration list.

Ratings: 7.5/10 for Venus
7/10 for Mercury

In the upcoming weekends, we will be viewings more venues...

Donations to Charity

Come to think of it, Singaporeans are really a caring group of people. Every week, without fail, you will see queues of people lining up to make donations. On every Wed, Sat and Sun, the queues gets longer. In some hot donations spots like the 7-11 store in Yishun, the queue gets really long comes Mondays and Thursdays. Well, Singaporeans are a really kind lot!

I used to make weekly donations too. However, I believed I am getting more than what I donated. My luck is good? Nah, never had much luck so far in my life. Its just that I stopped at the right time.

At the last World Cup, I got more than what I donated. Yeah, I did won some. Stop after sensing my luck is getting bad, so still win. Well, I am a die hard fans of the underdogs, so my donations normally goes towards them. Higher risk, higher returns. Always my style of donations.

Come the new EPL season, not going to make much donations. But still on-off monitor the screen infront of the donation outlets or online. Hand abit itchy when I saw the odds for yesterday match, Spurs VS Everton. Wanna support the underdog Everton at an odds of $4.00, but did not. Dun think I should make donations since I am saving up for my big day.

The result? Spurs 1 Everton 3

Arsenal playing later tonight, Champions League qualifier. Will not be watching it, need my sleep for a long day at work tmr.... Sweet dreams....

The Wedding Plan

Here are the list of stuffs that we need to do prepare for a wedding next Dec.

1) Look for a fortune teller to have our ROM and wedding dates fixed

2) Source for restaurants or hotels to host our dinner. Got to book early. Got people already complaining that they can't get hotels for next Dec. This is freaking me out.

3) Book dinner venue ASAP.

4) Source for wedding packages.

5) Look for wedding bands.

6) Decide whether to go for honeymoon stright after wedding dinner.

7) Name list of friends and relatives to invite for wedding dinner.

8) Starts saving money!!

I think there should be more to be done. But at the moment can't really think properly. Planning a wedding can be stressful. Anyone willing to become my free wedding planner?

Kanna tagged? What the...

Got this from Miss Watson, kinda of fun, I think. However, rules are meant to be broken, so I will not tag anyone else.

Rules of the game:
Each player of this game starts off with ten weird things or habits or little known facts about yourself. People who get tagged must write in a blog of their own ten weird things or habits or little known facts as well as state this rule clearly. At the end you must choose six people to be tagged and list their names. No tagbacks!

1) An open secret. I love pink color. I got pink T-shirt, pink polo tees, pink short sleeves shirts (i think about 3 I got) and lastly pink color long sleeves shirt. But please, I am no gay.

2) During Chinese New Year, I must wear new red color underwear. My socks must also be new. But, I dun insist on other new clothing.

3) This, my parents told me about this. When I was young, like a few months old, I once hold onto the feelers of a cockroach and swing it about.

4) My set of teeth is the best feature of my body. Also the part I like best. Can become colgate model. But please, cover my face, just show ny teeth.

5) I like the Hong Kong Band Beyond since I was like 13 years old. Went to their concert alone in 1995 when I was still in poly. I still collects their CDs, some of which cost over few hundreds.

6) Sometimes, I called my dear, brother. In return, she calls me sister. One weird couple we are, I must say.

7) My birthmark is on my right ribcage, just below my armpit.

8) I MUST drink orange juice while on a flight. Not other juice, just orange.

9) I was hit by a moving van while I was on duty, in full uniform, on a Christmas Eve 1999. Went for my Christmas dinner in a arm sling.

10) I got a two year old son.

All of the above are facts, except for number 10. Wow hahahaha... I crap alot.

Happy Birthday Singapore!!

Happy 42nd Birthday Singapore!

My office is always very cute, today we got a mini National Day party. Got nice durian puffs, 凉茶 and jelly. All sponsored by my colleagues, I did not buy anything. Haha... abit pai seh. Let's see what I can buy back for them next week. Well, anyway, as always, had fun.

Remember 5 years ago (people are always more nostalgic when they gets old), I was invloved in the NDP as a Guest of Honour. Training was tough, darn tough, but still we sort of enjoyed it. Also great feeling during the marching in when screams of cheers could be heard. And yeah, managed to be caught by the camera. I was on TV! Trained for about 5 months and appeared on TV for maybe about a second! Great! Anyway, during that period, made quite a few friends. Too bad everyone seems to be busy, but at least I am still in contact with one. Hope our friendship will last...

End of the first blog of the day......

Rhain Davis

This is a cool video.

Rhain Davis, if you did not already know him, is a 9 year old kid who had just recently signed for Manchester United. His grandfather sent in this video and Man U signed the kid by just watching this video.

The kid is darn cool, doing all the cross-overs and dummies. Wonder if he will grow up to be a great footballer.

Monday Blues

For the record, I had never ever experienced Monday blues since the day I started office hours some 9 months back. However, today, I experienced one of the most darn Monday. Even thinking that this will be a short week did not help. After thinking about why I got these blues, I realised it is caused by my worries.

Ya, I am really worried about someone, my dear. Why? Because she is sick. Although it is a minor illness, I am still worried sick. I think I am more worried about her than she, about herself. So, can't really concentrate today. Was thinking how is she going to last thru' her whole day of school.

So the first thing when I reached home is to give her a call. She sounds cheerful and she is feeling better. Only then are my blues gone, just like that. No more worries. This must be the power of love. Its magical......

Saturday Night Fever..

Had dinner at Holland Village's NYDC. Was really hungry and had wanted to order some chops, chicken or pork. However, to my horror, NYDC does not serve chops, darn. Instead settled for some Italian noodle. Of course, not filling enough and ordered "That boney cake", my favourite. Darn nice.... makes me droops.

After dinner, went on to meet the others at the next meeting place, Essential Brew, also at Holland V. This place is pretty cool, their speciality is tea. On the second level, you need to take off your shoes and the sitting style is like the Japanese. Ya, sitting on the floor. A good place to relax and chill out with friends. After staying there for like an hour or so, someone suggested to change location. Wanted to go the Dempsey Road.

So ended up at The Wine Company in Dempsey Road. This is the first time that I went to Dempsey Road. This place was formerly used by the army, but had since been converted to be some wine and dine place. Another great place to chill out. You can also look at the stars from here. The wine is not ex too. We ordered a bottle of white at about $40 after service charge and GST. So, a pretty good place to be at. Although, it can be pretty inaccessible to those with no transport.

Anyway, had a good time chatting under the stars.... Hope we can do this more often.....

Stage of dilemma

Arsenal released two new jersey designs for the new season of 2007/08. Here are the two designs. The one above is the new away jersey. Cost about S$94. My friend already got it. Darn him, always the fastest in getting new jerseys... hahaha...

Above is the so called third jersey. Seldom Arsenal released third jersey. Just launched recently, should be in Singapore in another one or two months.

Both looks good to me. Should I get the white color one first or wait for the strips one? Or should I get both? Or rather should I wait for the jerseys to be given as my birthday gifts? Hee.....

Broke back!

Had plan for a jog early this morning at 7 am. However, did not materalise as I am more interested in my sleep. So, will go for a early morning jog tommorrow. Hope I can get up, that is.

Today, I am really broke.

Sent my blacky for 60Km servicing at the agent. I last serviced blacky at the agent at 5km. Did not send in my car to agent because it cost more. But as my blacky is about to turn 3 years old, I decided to go the agent. Why? Because the warranty will expire at year 3. Will make use of the warranty to have some parts of blacky fixed. So, total got 6 complains. Managed to fix most of the problems without a single cent. But still need to go back again because one of the spare part need to be ordered.

The servicing cost me $349 + $80 for my car alarm to be fixed. They said that car alarm is not covered under warranty.

Furthermore, renewed blacky insurance for $1300. Another $475 goes into LTA for the road tax. So in total I spent $2200+.

So I am broke. Really an expensive day to go on leave.

Happy Nurses' Day

1st Aug is Nurses' Day

So, hereby wishing all nurses and nurses wannabe Happy Nurses Day.

Recalling my poly life, there would be many activities during this day. Cannot remember the details but I think we even got stuff like singing contest. Everyone would seems to be in joyous mood too. Sigh... that was already so many years ago. I miss my poly life, my friends, my basketball games, my carefree life, skipping of lectures, falling in and out of love........

I wonders how many of my classmates are still in nursing, wondering.........

My Blog turns GaY

Pink color.

I like pink.

So my blog got to be gay for a few days.

Haha.

Decent Proposal Returns

Ok, just back from work, had lunch with dear (yah, she came all the way to meet me for lunch) and my colleagues. Funny people. Someone (you know who u r) suggested a makan place and in the end, ended up at the wrong building because of someone else (ya, its you!). So, nice lunch with 2 very funny people... wow hahaha...

Anyway, had chicken rice. So now, waiting for my dinner. My dad suggested chicken rice. Mine oh mine, no more chicken for the day please. I had enough. Ha..

So do let me continues my previous post as I waits for my dinner....

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When I returns to that HongKee, he was with a female friend. She had her camera in her hands. Think that guy told her what I wanted to do. However, as my gf had MIA, I sadly took back my camera and that Hongkee went off. Just as that guy went off, my gf appears from nowhere!! Ha, so hurriedly I go after that HK guy and he gladly agreed to help me video the process.

I had to choose a good spot to make sure that there is enough lighting. As the area on top of Taipei 101 is pretty dark, I had chosen a place where there is some shelf display with spot-lights. Yah man, I am getting nervous. As that HK guy prepared to video for me, his whole group of friends joined him... We are getting a crowd man....

So, my silly gf was still thinking that I wanted that guy to just take a pic for us. However, to her surprise, I went down on my knees. Out comes the ring and cheers all around. By passers were cheering me on! "Marry him lah", "Say yes lah", so I am not alone afterall. People around me are so supportive.. haha..

Well, of course, we both are very touched, she teared. Me, almost. After, saying, "Will you marry me?", for three times, she nod her head. Please hor, she is not hesitant, more shock to react than hestitant. Ha. So, put on the ring for her (glad it fitted nicely) and gave dear a kiss. More cheers around. Haha.. After which, both of us are pretty pai seh and quickly 'escape' from the crowd..... hee..

Anyone interested to view my proposal video? Nah, wait till my wedding dinner.

Decent Proposal

This is long overdue, but guess I got to drop few lines in my dairy......

It's more than a month since I returned from Taipei. Back is back to normal but preparation had started. What preparation you may ask. Well, it's our BIG day. I must admit it is still early days but it is always never too late to plan for something once in a life time. Okie, back to my decent proposal. Actually, had wanted to proposed to my long-time gf of six years about two years back. However, did not materialise. So I made use of our Taipei holidays to make the proposal. Here how's the proposal goes.....

May 2007 :

The search for the ring starts. With many comments from my dear colleagues. Finally settled for a 0.46 carat ring from Citigems. Simple ring which costs me about a month's pay. But well, money well-spent.

17th June 2007 :

Before our trip to Taipei, I had already made plans. The proposal plan. Wanted to make this moment truely unforgetable, so I decided to propose in the world's tallest building, Taipei 101.

On 17th June 2007, was getting nervious. Scared that last minute my balls dropped and I forgo my plans. It almost happened, almost. Let me fast forward....... Up there in Taipei 101, after going round the observatory for about 30 mins, I activated my plan. I left behind my gf who is engross in her own world. I approached a Hongkee guy. Had already targeted him when we just step foot into the building. Targeted him because he was with his gf, part of my plan. Well, actually I wanted to video the proposal process and wanted this Hongkee to help me. Of course, he is willing to help me. However, to my horror, my gf is missing in action. I can't find her where I had left her!! Darn, I panicked. Fantically searched around for her, but she is no where in sight. After few minutes, almost giving up, I went back to the HongKee who is holding on to my camera and told him that my gf had disappear. Dun need his help anymore. He appeared as disappointed as I am.....

Hmmm... think will continue later on....

Jerk Thai

Had my dinner at Jerk Thai today. Do not really know the correct spelling of the restaurant. Anyway, the name doesn't matters. Because I have decided to ban this restaurant. Why? Not because the food is that bad. Neither is it because of the service. Well, if you do not know me, I value good service. Bad service, and you will never see me in that restaurant again. Ok, back to Jerk Thai. The thing or rather drink is the one that I am disappointed in. I ordered Lemon Grass drink at S$3 a glass. I think, well, the price is still ok before I got my order. However, was totally disappointed that the drink is actually made from syrup. Sucks man. Go Thai restaurant drink my favourite Lemon Grass drink and it is mix from syrup. No standard. I would have expected something more from my S$3. My S$3 is not very big, but would expect something more. So, will not visit Jerk Thai again...... or maybe I will..... Ya, I am that fickle minded.

And ya, wanna eat that new cheese fondue pizza from pizza hut. Anyone knows any pizza hut with reasonable service? I am just asking for reasonable service from pizza hut, because you will never get good service from them.

Back in Action Part II

Mine mine mine.... I had been neglecting my blog for ages. Some 5 months I did not log in , almost forgotten my password.. ha.

Well, today gave someone my blog address. In fact was abit pah seh because did not update my blog for ages.. ha.. so just drop a few lines here..

Hmmm... thinking back, the past few months had been pretty eventful. Life at new work place is great. Many to learn with nice people in the office. Get to know new friends and can suan people without getting the returns. That's the fun part of life.... ha.

Anyway, been to Taipei in June. Nice trip but spend quite a bit. But well, it is worth the money :p
Will post some pics soon, and some interesting things I done over there.. hee...

Ok, hope I will MIA for too long again...

Back in Action

Wow... time flies, I had not been blogging for close to 3 months? Decided just to add a simple entry since the Chinese New Year is approaching. Well, what CNY got to do with my blog? Nothing actually. Maybe just suddenly got the mood to do some typing...

Today, had a CNY lunch at my office. Plenty of food. Got Golden Pillows, Roast Pork, Roast Duck, Flied mee hoon, Agar agar and even wine! The wine is sponsored by my boss.. haha nice of him. Which other boss in my line of work would actually bring wine to the office? Not many, I think.

So, today being the eve of eve of CNY, nobody seems to be in the mood to work. So all of us were waiting for the cue from our boss.. Not billiard cue, but the cue to go back early! All of us were hoping for some unofficial half day off. Well, being the nice boss he is, he instructed us to go back after the lunch. The lunch ended at around 2.30pm. After packing up, I was ready to go when two of my colleagues gave me Ang Paos!! So nice of them........

Anyway, Happy CNY to all!!!

My Batam Trip

It had been a long time since I last blog. For the past month, I had been to occupied with work in my new work place. Things had been pretty good for me. I have good colleagues and a good boss. Had been enjoying my work since.

Ok back to the topic, My Batam Trip.

From this Batam trip, I realised that staying in Singapore is really luxury. Cannot really imagine that the comdition in Batam, just a 45 mins ferry from Singapore, can be so different. People in Batam does not have proper housing and needless to say, no clean water or electricity (those staying in Kampung). Therefore, life in Singapore is really great as compared to Batam.

Day 1 (07 Dec)

Day 1 starts with us gathering at MacDonald in HarbourFront for breakfast. By 0750 hours, we were on the first ferry to Batam. After changing and leaving our bags at Harris Resort, we were off to the work site. Soon after we got a briefing from the locals there, we began our hard day at work. For our 3 days there, we are supposed to do the foundation of the house. This is really no easy task. We got to dig a small hill for soil to fill about 30cm above the ground level. This hill is about some 50 metres away from the house and is on a slope. So transporting the sand to the house is really hard work. After transporting of the sand to the house, we got to flaten and spread out the sand. Things is not made easy by the hot sun. But well, all the 12 of us there did enjoyed ourselves. There were so much laughters throughout the day. We got to create laughter to make our tough work more enjoyable. Work stop at 5pm and dinner is provided by the resort. The food is not too bad. During the night, I can't really get to sleep as my hands are aching away. Had not done such manual work in a long time you see.

Day 2 (08 Dec)

Another long time awaits us. After breakfast at the resort, off we go to the work site again. We continued the task that we did on day 1. This time round, we go abit slower than day 1. We are already tired from the day 1 work you see. But well, we did managed to go ahead of schedule. We were given 2.5 days to complete the foundation of the house but by 3-4pm on day 2, we had already compeleted it. So our team-work is really great. Everyone of us really work hard to complete our work. So, after completing the foundation, we went on to construct the wall of the house. This is considered a much easier task as compare to laying the foundation. Constructing of the wall is fun actually. But in order that the wall will not collaspe, we got to be careful on the placement of every single brick. Hmm.. very good experience.

Day 3 (09 Dec)

This is the last day on the Island. Just a half day work and we will be going back to Singapore. The day starts with a slight rain. We all thought that the rain will do us some good, but we are so wrong. Things started to go wrong while our van was making the way to the work site. As the rain make the road slippery, the van was not able to go up a gentle slope. Thus, we had to take a big detour and ending up 30 mins late. More bad news awaits us. Today, we were supposed to help in the construction of another house. We were supposed to lay cement on the roof of this house. However, because of the rain, the cement truck was not able to reach our worksite. So, a change of plan and our group got to dig drainage system for the small village. This drainage would be able to drain all the rain water and thus would make the cement truck a easier route. Digging this drainage is another tough job. Every dig would have water splasing all over you.. haha.. although it was tough, it was pretty enjoyable to see everyone gets dirty......

Overall, this trip to me is enjoyable. We had a great team with great people. Tough trip but is fun. Looking forward to meeting my team mates again.......

Operation Cross Road

Mark this date, 14 Nov 2006.

14 Nov 2006 must be one of the most important day of my life. In this day alone, three major events are about to take place. These three events will change my life, for the worst or very hopely and very likey, change for the better. No joke, 14 Nov 2006 is that important to me. So let me tell you briefly what these three events are.

Event 1: We are expectating our number one boss at my work place. This is a rare opportunity that our workplace have a chance to receive him. I had been tasked the important responsibities to show him what we had achieve at our workplace. Not easy for me since I have not gave a public speech for ages. But, well, what is giving public speeches to me? CHICKEN!! Well, I am just consoling myself. But I must not cock up here, as most likely my future promotions could count on this visit.

Event 2: This is yet another step forward. This day will be my last day at my current office. Spent more than 3.5 years at this office. It is always difficult to leave a place so familiar to you, to go to a totally strange place with strange people. It is always tough to leave your comfort zone, a place where your boss trusted you, a place where you are been respected, a place where ones listen to your orders.... But in life, we just have to move on, we can't always stay at one place for too long. Move to seek greener pasture as they says.... yah right!!

Event 3: To end the day, together with my dear, we will make our giant step forward to our future. No. Not yet ROM, but an HDB appointment. This must be our happy moment. At last got something to look forward to, a place to call our own. We are selected to make a slection of our HDB Flat. Seeing people around us getting married and applying for flats makes us want a flat of our own too. So finally, its time to put down our $2000 disposit for our new flat... so happy....

So, wish me luck on that day. I need plenty of that.......

Back to normal

Yipeeee!!!

One week has passed since the day I started to perform office hours duties. I had been doing shift duty for about some 10 years now, so it is a great change for me. When I was doing shift work, I only work for about 15 days a month. Also I can always wake up late and have many off days. So, at first, I thought that I need some months before I can adjust back to life in office hours. However, I was glad that I am able to adjust pretty well to my current hours. I think I will grow to like my office hours duties as then I will have more time with my dear. Also, I will not have to work Sat, Sun and holidays which I need to during my shift work. Well.... its a good change

Anway, watched "The Guardian" at Causeway Point with dear. Before watching this show I had no idea that this show exist. However, we are glad that we chose this show. This is really a great show and I will give it a 9.5 ratings out of 10. Currently, this is the best I had watched for this year. Lots of actions, touching scenes and also many humours. For those who have no plans for the weekend, I will strongly recommend this show. This will be worth your money and time.

The Guardian

"After losing his crew in a fatal crash, legendary Rescue Swimmer, Ben Randall, is sent to teach at "A" School, an elite training program for Coast Guard Rescue Swimmers. Wrestling with the loss of his crew members, he throws himself into teaching, turning the program upside down with his unorthodox training methods. While there, he encounters a young, cocky swim champ, Jake Fischer, who is driven to be the best."

After sending my dear back, while driving back home, my car audio was playing "Goong" OST. Hmmm.... so I was thinking maybe during our wedding night we can have a Korean Theme. Play cool Korean love songs and wear Traditional Korean clothing. Also must wear the prince and princess outfit. Maybe serve Korean food too!? Oh no, when have i turn into a Piscean?

How to beat haze

How to beat the hazy weather these days? Well, the most obvious answer is to add more smoke into the air. We did that today, by going for a BBQ!

I always enjoy going for BBQ. Nice food, nice company and of course supposedly, can beat the haze. Although, the PSI is only in the 80s range, I sure hope that we did actually add on the PSI level. I think we did, because we had 3 BBQ pits! That the most number of pits I had ever set up. Although the pits are not that big, it sure does generates alot of smoke at one time. BBQ-ing in the haze, fun.

At BBQs, I always like to set up the fire and BBQ food for others. I enjoyed more to BBQ than to sit aorund and wait for food to be serve to you. So, today, 'chop' all the pits and was there BBQ-ing the whole day. The food is nice with lots of sausages. The gals gone crazy and high just by looking at the different sizes and thickness of the sausages on the pits. They can't wait to lay their hands on them. One burnt her tongue when she is too eager to get the cheese sausage into her mouth. Should have blow it first!!!!!

Anyway, the best I like is the cheese ones. The German ones also nice. Of course must be nice, because the German sausages is really expensive.

Well, looking forward for more BBQs as the haze continues to haunt us.

Angels, angels and more angels

In recent days, my life revolves round angels, angels and more angels. Had been making and selling angels for the past one week. But do not get me wrong, I am not sick of the angels yet, just yet. Instead, I am enjoying my brisk sales. Most friends and all of mine colleagues had been very supportive. I had not been rejected by my colleagues. Everyone I ask brought at least one from me. Thank you so much. Needless to say, my sister had been the most supportive. Without much psycho-ing, she offered to buy 10 from me. She find the angels nice and she wanted to give to her friends. Thanks once again.

Today, had a quick 2 hours nap after my night duty before I went down to meet the rest of my team mates. Spent another half day making more angels. Was pretty tired and irritated (I will be most irritated when I am lack of sleep), but my fun loving and cute team mates make me forget my tiredness. Haha...

Anyway, the sales goes on. We are still some way short of our targets. Please help if you can. For those who had already ordered from me, thank you so very much! I love you all!!

Be an angel, buy an angel

Had not done any volunteer or charity work ever in my life. Had only donated money to some charities I fancy. Therefore, this volunteer work, code-named "Batam Build", can be considered as my first volunteer work I undertake. This Batam Build involves going to Batam for a 3 days and 2 nights trip in December to help the poor and needy construct a house of thier own. The people there are poor and doesn't even had a proper house to call their own. For the months leading up to Dec, we had to raise a sum of at least S$3500 to buy the construction materials needed. Therefore, we are now selling 'angels' to help raise this fund. Each angel are hand-made by us and they are made of Swaroski crystals. The angels are made into handphone straps. Each angel will cost you $12 and 2 angels will go for $20. All funds raised from the sales will go into the project. No single cents will be profited. Anyone interested to help, please do so. Any other donations will be very much appreciated.

Here are how the angels look like.

Some closed-up shots.

Yellow angel

Green one

As can be seen from the pics that the angels are really nice. They look even better in real. Get one for yourself now and do some good to others.

Spirit of the Coin

This 'game' came to my mind when I was watching TV yesterday. So just wanna share my experience here.

Spirit of the coin. I think most of us had heard of the spirit of the coin or had even played this 'game' before. I still remembered that during my primary school days, this 'game' is very popular with many playing in school. Thus, this 'game' is been banned by the school even when it is been played outside school classes.

So, how is the spirit of the coin been played? Ok, a group of maybe 3 or 4 will use their index finger and press onto a coin. This coin will be on top of a paper with the letters A to Z and the numbers 0 to 9 written on it. The 'game' starts when the players will ask any spirits around to go into the coin. And each members will take turns to ask the spirit some questions. After the questions is been asked, the coin will move to show you the answer. Sounds impossible for those who had not played this 'game' before, but I can assure you, the coin will really moves! How do I know? Well, I played with this 'game' before.

That time was either in secondary or poly days. Guys at chalet almost always got nothing better to do. So we decided to play this 'game'. So we took turns to ask questions and the coin will move. When my turn comes, I decided to ask personal questions which only myself and not my group of friends knows the answer. No matter how personal the questions are, the coin will move to the correct answer. However, later we found out during the 'game' is that the 'spirit' is able to answer you questions that you already had an answer in your mind. That is, if you are thinking of an answer like "yes I am a virgin" to a question to "Am I a virgin?", the answer will be "Yes" even when you are actually not a virgin.. hahaha... fun right.. go play play!!!

What a sweet sweet victory

Yooooooooo hooooooooooooo! Manchester United 0 Arsenal 1

Arsenal had its first win of the season! And what a great place to have our first win at, Old Trafford. Man Utd had started the season with a perfect record. 4 out of 4 wins. Arsenal? The worst start in a season in some 10 years under Arsene Wenger, gaining only 2 points out of 3 matches and laying shamelessly at 17 th place. So everyone said that Arsenal had no chance at all. Some even predicted a 3-0 victory to the Devils. In the end, Arsenal played their best ever match so far in their 4-5-1 formation and deserved their win. Actually, they deserved to win by a greater scoreline if not for some nervious finishing.

Past history had shown that when Arsenal beat Man Utd at home, they will go on to win the League title. So, this is the season for Arsenal.

Emmanuel Adebayor. The player who scored Arsenal winner in the 87th minutes.

Strange dreams

This morning, just before I woke up, I had a pretty strange dream. I had actually dreamt about my primary school mate. Just one of them appeared in my dream. She is a gal named Bizhen. She is the gal who sat infront of me in class. Haha.. I had pretty good memory. Well, it had been a long long time since I graduated from my primary school in 1989. For the record, I am from May Primary School. Just learnt that the school had already closed down in 2001. So sad...

After I woke up from my dreams, I felt a bit of nostalgic and missed my prmary school days. So I went searching for my autograph book and started to read some of the entries. Saw the entry that is enterd by Bizhen.. here it goes...

"To: Peixi

Every day of our friendship is as the rays of a new dawn
Time may separate us, but distance cannot alter
feelings and trusts between friends who realise that the
same common bond is felt in the heart.
As our friendship grows and days become years, we will look
at our yesterdays and waiting for our tomorrows.

Best Wishes to you

Your friend
Li Bizhen
9.25am
7/11/89"

Quite a chim entry for a sch children at primary 6. I admit that although I am in the best primary 6 class (haha.. yah its true) I do think I can write something so chim then. Hmmm.. maybe she copied it somewhere.... :p

Anyway, this dream makes me wanna find back my primary school friends. It is definitely a tough job as it is already so many years since our last contact. And also our apperances had certainly changed alot. Tried finding them in friendster but no luck. So all I can do now is to look back on my memories and relive my primary school days...... I miss my primary school days......

Rich Roy, Poor Roy

My car number came out starter on Sunday's nite 4D. This is the third time my number came out in two years. Quite good this number... Well, anyway, I did not buy but my parents did. So at least they kanna... And I also got some money from them heeeee.... Rich Roy....

And yipeeeee......... it is almost 12th Sept liao, which means my pay is coming into my bank account, which in turn will means that I will be rich soon. But what the darn. I can only be rich for maybe 2-3 days? Why? Because I need my pay to pay for all my bills... Let me try to list them out here..

a) My Income Tax. This one must settle. Come more than a month liao
b) Car loan
c) Credit cards bills
d) Handphone bills
e) Starhub Cable bill
f) Allowances for parents

So I have be left with few hundred bucks bah.... Sigh Poor Roy...

My Birthday, 8 Sept

8 Sept is my birthday. On this day, received some greetings from my friends in the form of handphone messages.. haha.. all of which are sent by my female friends. One of my close friend, Sandra, called me from Sydney. She is doing the night shift in ICU when she called. Well, thanks friends for all your greetings.

Spent almost the whole of my birthday at Sentosa with my dear. First ended up at Underwater World. This is the first time we visit this place together. As usual, lots of fishes and lots of people. Lots of children enjoying their last day of school holidays. Sigh... dun like places with so many people..

Some fishes pics....







Not bad hoh.. Looks like as if the pics are taken during a dive.. ha...

As the entry ticket to Underwater World also includes the entry to Dolphin Lagoon, we also went to catch a dolphin show there. First time to see the pink dolphins since the place opened few years back. The half and hour show is ok. The dolphins are cute but still felt sorry for them. These cute dolphins should be in the open ocean but not kept in captive.

Anyway, had an enjoyable dinner by the beach at Coastes Resturant. Din managed to see any stars as the sky is very cloudy.

Overall, Sentosa had developed alot during the last three years. Much more things to do there then before. However, all these activities are all damn expensive. More for the tourists. Do not see a point for locals to spend so much on some of the activities there.

After Sentosa, when for a walk at Sembawang Park. Sounds ulu right? But the place is packed with people having their BBQ, fishing etc... But still nice and quiet...

So this is how I spent my 18th birthday! I will looking forward to more of my 18th birthdays!!

Mambo Jumbo!! Hooo......

After missing in action for a while, I am finally back at Zouk, Mambo nite. Not that I am always there, but I have always like the music and the crowd. The young crowd never fails to remind me that I am always 18 yrs old. I wanna be forever young.....

So was there with my friends from K9. All whom I din club with before. However, most of them can dance real good and certainly bring out the fun. Will go with them again if time permits.

And yah, while waiting for my car from the velet, saw some gals by the road side. One was holding a big plastic bag. Ya, she was puking into it. I always felt that this is really unsightly for gals to get drunk. What do gals do when they get drunk? They will KPKB. They will cry mother and cry father. I hate this sight. So my moto is, if you can't hold your alcohol, dun drink. Pls dun waste all your money (even if the drinks are from some guys) on drinks and make yourself suffer. How about guys who get drunk? They will try to pick a fight with every and any one they met... hahaha guys..

Oh, where am I??? Back to what I saw while waiting for my car. Ok, one gal was puking while another gal was sitting by the curb. And she was wearing a short skirt. So u imagine a gal with a short skirt sitting by the curb. What will u see? Of cos its color TV lah. She dun even attempt to prevent herself from been zhao geng... so free show for all!

So what I learn from these free show? Firstly, dun drink and puke by the road side. Secondly, if you wanna sit by the curb with a short skirt, please wear a nice g-string. No granny panties, please.

Beyond's fan with Leukemia

Read from a Beyond forum about a Beyond's fan with Leukemia that had passed away on 12 Jun 2005. This should her last account of her life....

这也许是我最后一次发贴子了，这几天我身体感觉很不好，这些话也是我在医院写的，我怕如果有什么事发生，就来不及了，不过我想当你们看到这些时，我已经在另一个地方祝福你们了，这是我写给大家的，同样也深深的祝福你们！
这些日子我过的很开心，如果说在临死前还能过的很快乐的话，那么就莫过于我了，我不想说beyond什么，只是真心的感谢你们，当我看到你们回的那些贴子，一字一句都刻在我的心里，我没有告诉你们，当我看到那些话时，我哭了，其实我并不甘心离开，也试着努力过，但似乎这一切不能如我所愿，如果人的命运都是上天安排的，那么我也只能坦然接受，死只是人生命的一个终点，我觉得我的生命到这就够了，虽然还有很多精彩的事物我没有经历，那么至少有beyond，他们带给我的一切比什么都重要，我曾想过如果没有beyond的存在，我拿什么撑到现在，可以说还有什么能支撑我到现在，如果有，也很渺小。beyond赋予我的东西太多了，但在生命即将结束的这段时间，让我感到了爱的可贵，这种爱来自于你们，从你们的字里行间中我体会到了，我很珍惜这种爱，都说人是空手而来，空手而去的，即使我不能带走任何东西，但我至少可以把这种爱跟我的灵魂相溶到一起，让它永远活在我的灵魂里！
我还是要跟大家说对不起，我想我无法坚持到二个月了。在6月11日的前一天，我跟父母发生了争执，他们知道我身体的情况，去那种人群聚集的地方，说白一点，就是提前结束我的生命，所以他们坚决不让我去，不管我怎么求也无济于事，但我必须去看完这场“告别”演唱会，我想只有你们能够明白我的心情，也能明白“告别”对于我的意义，这也算是给我的生命划上了圆满的句号吧，为了beyond我可以不顾一切，甚至失去了理智，我跪在地上跪在他们面前恳求他们，直到他们答应我为止，父母很伤心，我明白我的举动让他们为难，可我还是希望能够得到他们的谅解，其实他们是不愿让我离开这个世界的，母亲抱着我哭了，她答应了我，她不想让我带着遗憾走，还是决定陪我一起去。转天早上，我很早就起了，当天的心情让我忘记了我是一个快要走向死亡的人，那一天也许是我过的最快乐的一天，也可以说是最后一个值得记住的一天吧，父母虽然勉强的笑着但也始终没有表露出难过与伤心，我知道他们在极力的配合我，在我生病的这些日子，也只有那一天在我的家里充满了欢笑，而这笑好象意味着什么…下午，在临出门时，我吃了很多药，不过只要能让我坚持着看完那场演唱会，吃多少药都无所谓了。到了体育中心，看到这么多歌迷，很开心，可以说是一种享受与幸福，每分每秒都充满了快乐，虽然感到很累，但看到这么多朋友的热情，对我来说还是一种莫大的鼓舞，父母很担心我进去以后的状况，便不断的嘱咐我不要太激动，控制住自己的情绪，虽然答应了他们，但当那激昂的音乐声响起时，我早已忘了父母的叮嘱，跟着一起呐喊，欢呼，我没有太多的气力，但每一声呐喊，每一滴眼泪都注入了我对他们这么多年的感情，也许他们感觉不到，但我想你们都会明白，他们用歌声告别我们，而我也在用这种声嘶力竭的呐喊，挥泪向他们告别，每个人都在用尽全部感情，全部力量，一起高呼Rock n' Roll ，如果说明天就是世界末日的话，我想今夜我要把我的一切都溶入到这场演唱会里，它将成为又一个永恒的经典，随着演唱会的落幕，beyond定格在这一刻，也就在这一刻“beyond”真正成为了不朽的历史。我觉得我能够坚持下来就是一个奇迹，我很满足了，虽然我坚持了下来，但也离死亡进了一大步，我跟大家一样都很激动，以至于演唱会结束后还不能控制住自己的情绪，母亲见我这个样子很着急，担心我会出什么事，上车之后，我就不停的咳嗽，在我晕倒的前一刻，我唯一看见的就是我手中咳出的血。醒来时，已经躺在医院里，我感到呼吸困难，全身无力，可以感到死亡离我不远了，不过还好，我还可以把这些写下来，还能跟你们道别，我本来想对你们每一个人都说一声谢谢的，但我可能没那么多时间了，我只能把你们的名字写下来 。

Her name is 张静文.

Read that she is suppose to have another two more months to live. But she passed away the next day after she attended Beyond's concert. Doctors said she is too overly excited and got infected during the concert. I suppose someone with Leukemia is not allowed to go to places with too many people. But she insisted on going because Beyond is part of her life. If I am her, I may also do the same. I may forgo my two months of life to attend to Beyond's concert. But still, it is easier to say then to do it. So she is really one brave gal.

张静文, R.I.P.....

Shopping whole day long...

Today had a long day, a long long day of nothing but shopping and shopping and shopping.....

Location : Suntec City

Our shopping spree starts at Suntec City early afternoon. There alone dear bought some over $100 worth of DVD, Koreans DVD. Yah, she is crazy over Koreans shows now. She can watch "My name is Kim San Soon" 4-5 times over and over again. And each time she will laughs over the same thing she had watched before. Tell me, if she is not crazy, who is??!?

After getting the DVD, its time to get some clothing. Din buy much but a cute polo-tee from S & K. Only $6. If buy already, bring home and dun like it, use the tee as a rag also not too bad...

Next stop... Shaw Tower CD show... Lucky din see any Beyond CDs that I dun have there... so din spend a cent here...

Location: Bugis

So off we go to Bugis for more shopping. This time round bought a book and some pen. Went shopping for my birthday gift (I wanted a good pair of leather slippers) but din like any. Or rather I felt the price is not worth the buy. BATA in Suntec got more value for money buy.

Location : Marina Square

Off we goes to Marina Sq for our dinner. Din do much after dinner and thereafter went to Suntec to get my slippers. haha... cheap cheap only $39.90 and I din pay a single cent.. thanks dear.....

Next stop.. Holland Village

Then after all the shopping, its time to catch up with old friends over a cup of kopi at Holland V. The parking is still as bad after they built a 2-storey carpark... why can't they just built more storey... hmmmm...
Catching up with friends is always nice... should do that more often....

ZZzzzZZZzzz.......

Red Star, My luck star

Today had breakfast at Red Star Resturant at Chinatown. Food is as per always, still as crowded, even thought not as crowded as the last time we went there. Actually, this is going to be my treat. But, however, I think my lucky is here to look for me. As I was going to pay the bill, I had a bet with my dear. Who ever guess the nearest amount to pay the bill wins. And the loser will of course have to settle the bill. So, my guess was $45. Hers, $50. Of we went to the cashier.... And guess what, the bill is exactly $45! Haha.. I am so smart... and so, thanks dear for the breakfast.. haha....................... :p

Recap for the week

Have not been blogging for about a week.

Time for a short recap.

8 Aug 2006

This day had an enjoyable time at a BBQ organise by my dear's good friend Ja. The BBQ took place at Ja's new condo. Darn nice place, how nice if we had a place there.. Well, back to the BBQ... I always like BBQ, because many friends will turn up and it is always fun catching up. Hmmm... all the people there are my dear's friends, but I also know them quite well too. I also always like doing the work at BBQ. Things like setting up the fire, BBQ-ing the food etc. I always expect a high standard of the food I BBQ, always make sure they are well look after.. ha.. so as not to get too many chao-ta food.

Anyway, Ja prepare some prasta that can fill at least 20 person ( we had only 8 persons). The prasta taste really good, even better than some of those selling outside. But of cos, we could'nt finished the food, cos I told you she prepared for 20 persons! ha... Had a really enjoyable day with my dear and her group of friends...

9 Aug 2006

National Day! Had another day slacking at dear's place. Yah, bake cake again. This time not murphy? (my dear told me it is spelt as muffins), but strawberry cake. Should be the first time we attempt to bake such a high profile cake before. It turns up pretty good I should say. At least my dad commented they are nice, but too sweet. My dad always complain our cakes are too sweet anyway.. ha. But he said that Ah Ying is very good, can go set up a cake shop... Yah, that's what he said....

Fast forward to 12 Aug 2006

My dear's first pay in her new job came in.. hmmm.. hope she save some for my birthday present :)

I got some plans to how I pass my day today, should a busy day I suppose. Here are my time table... anyway, the time now is 11.30am

12pm to 12.30pm - Go had my lunch

12.30pm to 2.00pm - Play my computer games

2.00pm to 6.00pm - Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

6.00pm to 7.00pm - Have my dinner, maybe

7.00pm to 10.00pm - Play my Xbox

10.00pm to 12am - Stone at home

12am to 0200am - Should have a soccer match shown live

See, my whole day is packed with activities!!!

:p

Slacking sat

Today, a Saturday, another day spent slacking at my dear's house. Had afternoon nap before dinner. And watch Superband finals on TV. Both of us voted a grand total of three votes for Milubing.. In the end glad that they won the contest... Always think they are a band with lots of creativities and their performances are always cute...

Well, after the show, baked chocolate chips and banana cakes. Or do you call that murhpy? or murhpines? Hmmm.. hope you get what I mean. Back to the baking... well, I always enjoyed baking with my dear. Lots of fun and of cos got nice, hot murphy? to bring home after that... The murphys? we baked together are always so nice.. heee..

But, when I went to retrieve my car, saw a slip of paper on my windscreen. Yah, that's it! Kanna already.. $20 gone... sianzzzz....

Pirates, finally

Finally, managed to catch Pirates II at Causeway Point today. Just before the show ends it ran. Had always wanted to go catch this show with my dear the first day the it had been screened. But for some reasons or another, we din managed to find any time for the show.

Well, the show is good. Rate it 3.5 out of 5 stars. Many actions, lots of laughters. But still not as good as the first, I think. So will I watch Pirates III? Ya, of cos, wanna see how they rescue Jack from the dead....

So tmr is another free day.... maybe wanna bake cakes together with my dear... hee :)

Long day....

Today had a long day at work.

Had a new gal attached to me. So got to bring her around and show her what's work is all about. That took me half a day till 3pm. After which went for a talk, till 5.30pm. That's leaves me 3.5 hours left to finished my work. So back to office, work, work , work and more work....... ZZzzzzzzzzZZZzz

After work, attended a friend's mum wake.... Shouldn't go into details here....
But many kids at the wake. Make me realised that I do actually love kids. Two years ago, I can't imagine myself been a father. But now, I think i am ready, or so I think... ha... Anyway, I want THREE (3) of my own!!! But hmmm... my dear say max is two...... hmmmm.... the more the merrier mah.... hee..

Back to the wake...

Left the wake at almost 12am. So din managed to speak much to my dear. But no worries, we can always do it the next day.. dear hoh....