Busy June

June has been a really busy period. 2 overseas trip and my birthday month. Went HKG on 5 - 8th of June on a biz trip, and my Mom and sister went along with me. Free accomodation at 5-star hotel, why not right? The photos shown on hotel website was really nice and my sister was so enticed to go. When we checked in though, we were all scratching our head and wondering why the website looks so different. Anyway, this was not the best time to go HKG. Not only was it not the sale's season, it was raining almost EVERYDAY. First day we touched down, it was drizzling, second day pouring, third day black alert, all schools had to close. Lucky we stay in a hotel with immediate access to a big shopping mall. If not, my sis and Mom will be bored to death. There were news of floods at a lot of places whenever we watch the news. Lucky for us, on the last day where I had F&E with them whole day till about 4pm, it was clear weather, so we managed to do some shopping and I even bought 2 Rabeanco leather bags. All 3 of us bought Rabeanco bags this time round. =)

13 - 17 Jun, I went BKK with Junqi. Have not been on a trip for a LOOONNNNGGGG time, so I was really looking forward to this trip. We stayed at Marriott Resort and Spa and really enjoyed our stay there. Service was good, ambience was really good. The location is at Riverside, so in order to get to town area, we had to take a ferry to and fro everyday. Really nice and exclusive. All the goods hotels have this kind of shuttle ferry service at their respective hotels. Shopping was good, I think I did more shopping during this trip than the last 5 years combined. Every night we will go for massage to soothe our legs so as to continue the shopping battle the next day. Every night after all the shopping and walking, on the ferry back to hotel, I have this sizzling feeling in my legs! Food was not good though, tough to find vegetarian food in BKK. Our life saver was MK steamboat. Confirmed, checked and double confirmed that their soup base is soya. So we had steamboat for dinner for consecutive 2 nights. On our last day, I was simply dragging my feet to shop around. No stamina at all! I was on the look out for cafes constantly so that I can rest my feet! I'm getting OLD!

Swimming fun

Swimming is the only exercise I can do at the moment. Tried putting on track shoes the other day and gave up after walking a few steps. The wound portion still hurts when pressure is applied.

Swimming is going to be a weekly routine with my sister(I hope anyway). Brought my Mom to the pool for the first time in her life. It was hilarious. She has low water confidence and was very scared. Bought a floating board for her, and you should see the way she is hanging to it for dear life in a 1.2m pool. She was so cute, and we were trying to teach her to float and she was like screaming. Nearly died laughing... =) Hope things will improve as she gains her confidence. :)

Overdue Honeymoon

We are finally going on our honeymoon! This trip has been delayed and delayed and delayed. The only period we can go is June and Dec school holidays (what to do, I married a teacher), and somehow things always pop out. When we just got married in Dec 06, we only managed to go on short trip to Bintan/Batam cos most of our funds were used to pay the top up for our flat. Jun 07, we were busy with moving and settling into our house, plus also cash strapped with the renovation and stuff. Dec 07, he kena reservist, so we only managed a family trip up to Genting. Jun 08, he kena reservist again, so we are going on short trip to Bangkok. So now we are planning early for our Dec trip. And it will be a trip worth remembering, cos we going US for 3 weeks!! Yippee! This time, nothing will stop us! Psst...Actually, Nov/Dec 08, he will kena 2 reservist, but that will be taken care of. :p Don't know why all his reservist always fall into school holiday period one... Sigh...

US US here I come!

Home cooked Wanton Mee

Haha, so proud of myself, managed to cook some decent Wanton Mee on Sunday. Looks quite nice right? Taste quite good as well. :p Do pardon the unglam looking newspaper, that is a necessity for lazy pple like me! haha

I love our car!

Rice cooker surprise

Last night my darling said he was hungry and insisted I help him to take the food he was steaming from the rice cooker. I refused initially and he started pouting away. So I relented and this is what I saw when I opened the rice cooker...



Tata...my Moniversary present...

Moniversary is what he calls our monthly anniversary. We are celebrating our 45 months together and my present: good as new wedding band!




I have not worn my wedding band since the accident cos it was badly scratched and the ring surface will scratch my face, clothes etc when I wear it. He secretly went to fix our rings and now it looks brand new! I got another proposal again last night! SO SWEET!!! On top of that I got a gold necklace with a gold pendant. Yes, you will ask why GOLD! Well, according to a fortune teller, I have to wear some gold as my life is very "light". I was finding all sorts of excuses not to wear the previous necklace, so between a Coach bag and gold necklace, he bought me a lighter, longer, nicer one, so that I won't have any more excuses. :)

My first major serious accident!

Decided to document this to remember this incident and to grouse people out, so don't continue if you have a weak heart!!

When the bike skidded and I landed on the floor, I was in shock. Did not really know what was happening, only knew I was bleeding a lot and that I could see white stuff and bloody flesh on my foot. The pain started to hit real hard when I was in Simon's car on the way to the hospital. Simon is the nice guy who sent us to the hospital. At the hospital, bored and in pain, I decided to take photos to while away some time. My sister soon arrived with chocolate to pacify me and wheeled me around for my X-rays and checks while my hubby limped around on his own for his checks. After more than 4 hours, we finally managed to head back home, tired and hungry...


Does the wound at the kneecap look like tattoo to you? Btw, that is my fav FCUK jeans!!

Remains of my hubby's socks, can you imagine what would have happened if he was not wearing shoes!!


Does my blue black look like a continent to you?

Aftermath of accident, I rested at home for 6 long weeks. This was taken almost one month after the accident. Still looks bad ya...




check out JQ's wound...this continuously had discharge and smells quite bad...

When JQ and I think back, we still feel blessed that we only escaped with superficial wounds. Given the time and location of the incident, we are really lucky that we were not knocked by traffic behind us. It really could be a lot worse. However, the timing really quite suay. If we could just tahan 2 more weeks, we would have collected our car and avoided this accident all together.

And how did I spend the 6 long weeks? I slept a lot, watched a lot of TV, ate and slept, ate and slept, ate and slept. Lucky we had company on and off, some friends came to visit and talk cock, family came to play mahjong. Think my mahjong improved a lot man. And we are lucky we had strong support from our family. My sis came by a lot to help me shower, helped us with a lot of grocery shopping. My Mum settled our meals, Dad fetched us to and fro the clinic, JQ's family helped us with food supplies, rental of maid and loads of care and concern. A BIG thank you to you guys! Love you all! Also need to thank all the friends and relatives that came with fruits, food, magazines, dvd. Thanks for your thoughtfulness!

V day

U know you are getting old or in a "stale" oops, ahem I meant stable relationship when

1. U feel V day has no meaning anymore
2. U hear a lot of " everyday can be V day" from your partner
3. U hardly hear pple talking about what they are doing for V day
4. U either let your partner join the crowd of being 菜头 cos the flowers are so much more ex or you have to 暗示 your partner if you are not married and 明示 your spouse that you want flowers (hint at this stage does not work anymore!! )note: you still might not get the flowers after 明示
5. U reply 拜天公 when pple ask you wat's your plan tonight
6. U don't remember when and what was your last V day's gift


SO SAD!!

Seriously, the older you are, the more boring V day becomes. Those days with cards, chocolate, notes, flowers, gifts and romantic dates are long gone with the wind. V day just seems more exciting when you are young!

Prelude to MIL's call

Got to found out the secret recipe over the weekend. According to my MIL, if you share some of the confinement food of a mother that just gave birth, vinegar pig trotters specifically, then you will have high chance of getting pregnant. She told me that there was this relative who tried to conceive for many years, but did not succeed, but once she tried this method, she got pregnant. That's why she asked me if I wanted to try. Hmmm, what a myth!

MIL's weird call

MIL called me this morning and asked me weird things. She started with asking me if I wanted kids, so I said of cos yes lah. Then she went on to tell me that her friend shared with her a 秘诀, and asked me if I'm keen to try. So I replied as long as it does not involve me eating meat, anything lah. Not that I believe in old folklore, but I think I have to appreciate her efforts and concern right? Then she repeated her questions of whether we wanted kids and and that this 秘诀 has worked for 2 of her friends but I will have to make some "sacrifice". Smelling something "fishy", I repeated that as long as it does not involve me eating meat, I can go along with it. So finally she said well, then don't say lah, cos it is eating something not vegetarian. Putting down the phone, I was wondering to myself if she knows that we only started family planning like last month. Is she wondering how come we are taking so long, as in married for a year already, still nothing? Still, I know she called me out of good intentions and wanted to share good stuff with me. I just hope these things don't get too "stressful" for me and I sure hope she is not banging her hopes on me for a grandson.

Welcome 2008!

Had a quiet Xmas at home with my Mum, sister and hubby. Counted down to year 2008 with mahjong also at home with some friends. I am such a homely person... haha...Think I'm going to have a very blessed good year with good luck for 2008, was the biggest winner for both New Year's Eve and New Year's Day mahjong session! Ha ha, that hardly happens to me! (Btw, biggest winner does not mean winning BIG money ok, I won $4.50 for first game and $5.80 for 2nd game. What did you expect, we only played 10 cents and 20 cents what!! Plus we did not really collect $, more for playing for fun. keke)

In the past, I always had the habit of setting some new year resolutions, and penning them down on New Year's Eve, but I realised I never got down to implementing them. This year, I'm going to set a more practical one. I want to be a mother in year 2008 and will work hard to make it come true! Wish me luck everyone and pray for success for us ok? :D

May all wishes come dream for all of us this year. Happy New Year!! :p

Junqi and Bailing's first Marathon

Miracle Miracle

A miracle happened on Oct 27. I woke up at 7am in the morning! For me to wake up so early on a SATURDAY morning, it's almost impossible!! To top it up, I actually pulled my hubby out of bed to go JOGGING, a thing that I literally hate doing! Still can't believe I did that, I even told JQ to buy 4D that day... Keke. It was really quite an enjoyable jog, though I only lasted for 15min. I almost reached Bedok Jetty from my house!

Later part of the morning I had to rush to Beth's place for my "make up". Oct 27 is a hot date for weddings and I was Jie Mei for Beth. My whole entire life, this is the only time when I actually had my make up and hair done by professionals other than my own wedding. What to do, all other 6 Jie Mei did the same thing as well. Lucky all of us did our make up and hair, there was a last min decison for us to walk down the aisle of Victoria Concert Hall before the bride. Lucky all of us were 美美. This is my first march in ever, I didn't have a march-in even for my own wedding! keke

Took lots of photos that day, will find a time to upload some. :)

End of Detox program

Yippee, today is the 1st day of post juice. Have been on juicing detox program for 2 weeks and this time feels really good! Don't talk about all the inches and kilos lost, but more importantly, feel really cleansed as I have been shitting almost every day. Previous juicing did not have this effect at all... really makes you wonder how one can shit when there is no input other than juices. :p

So I have 1 more week and I can start eating normally again. Really miss my Mom's soups... yummy... I can start arranging to go out with friends again as well. Feels really weird going out with friends and I can't eat or drink anything, so it was a hibernating period for me.

Weekend passed by with a lot of shopping done. Sold my phone for $240 at TPY, quite amazed that N70 still can fetch such a price. Bought a lot of fruits, ingredients for post juice soup, DVD player for our room and tons of things from Ikea. Now my legs feel really funny. :p

Miracle

Today is the first time that I did not take cab to office for my con call in the morning and I was on time. On top of that, I was even early by almost 15min! I reached office at 7.45am!! That hardly happens for me man, take bus and can reach so early!! Haha, so proud of myself. The next call going to be at 7am, jia lat loh, going to have more of these in the coming months. :(

Home alone

Have been home alone for the past few days cos my darling is out in field, so I have the whole house to myself! Quite shiok but still prefer to have someone to hug at nite. Keke. :) Anyway, it will be his turn to be home alone for 10 days cos I'm leaving for China on Sat with my family. In case you are wondering why he is not going (I have been asked that question many times), he can't take leave due to his job and Dec will be too cold for my parents, plus it won't be so scenic, so no choice have to bang seng him. Anyway, we are thinking of going somewhere in Dec as well, just the 2 of us. Still thinking of where to go. Current options we are considering, Vietnam, Cambodia or Myanmar. Any suggestions?? :D

Yummy homemade carrot cake

Nothing tastes better than my Mom's homemade carrot cake. :) Yummy!

JQ back in camp

Xian, JQ will be in reservist for 2 weeks. Still thought can enjoy more time together since he got 1 week holiday. To top it off, once he finish his reservist, I'm flying off for my tour. :(

Anyway, he just finished his IA course and on his way to become a certified Iridology Analyst. Not so easy of cos, got to go through tests and "internships" I think. He is going to get lasik to correct his eyes soon. According to their teacher, contact lens is very bad for the eyes cos you are perpetually soaking your eyes in chemicals. They did a comparison between the contact lens wearers and non wearers and there really is quite a signficant difference! Lucky I got perfect eyesight. phew...

Still hooked on Bleach, on epi 75 now. Only mid-way there. Jia you jia you! :)

天冷就回来

Watched this last Thu with my sister and I totally enjoyed it! I'm so amazed by the way the songs are stringed together and how good George Chan's vocals is. I know he can dance, but singing as well!!?? Wow, here is someone really talented. In fact, the whole cast is really impressive! The story line is simple and there are some scenes that's so Singaporean that you just have to applaud them. The songs are really familar esp since we kind of grew up in that era and you just have those tugs in the strings of your heart (牵动心铉的感觉). By the end of Act 1, I can feel the mucus flowing down from my nose and tears down my face, and I had to ask my sis for tissue. I must have been quite a sight man. But something weird, Act 1 is significantly nicer than Act 2. Anyway, it's good to hear that the show is completely sold out. Quite an achievement I would say, Bravo to them. And 1 more bonus point, we saw Liang Wen Foo and even got his autographed compilation album. Yippee!! :)

Reason for not updating my blog

Hooked on Bleach! It's so nice that I have to watch at least 1 epi every nite! Will try to find some time to update though! So stay tuned! :p keke

BLEACH ROCKS!!