When we were young

One of the good things about uploading pictures onto an online album is that you can easily find pictures from the good old days.. and to see how quickly time has passed. The picture below was taken in one of the gardens in ntu.. probably in 2003/4.. I think we look so... young and full of energy?!?! Work is really sapping the energy out of us now.  

1 1/2 more months..

Janice has decided to give HK a miss... so it seems from her Facebook status..  I hope she's still coming back to Singapore though!!! Well.. another 6+ more weeks to the wedding.. kinda getting into the mood and getting all set up. Actually it's more or less done I think except for my invitation cards.. haven't printed the map of the church yet. Purchase of house has been completed so I'm officially the owner of a new home! It's a bit anti climax still cos I can't live in it just yet. But it's a good feeling.. yet at the same time my CPF account is literally zerorised.... all my 4 yrs of hard work.. (gosh, 4 yrs already?!?!). Time really seems to fly. It's June already and I almost feel as though 2009 is just a sniff away. Every day seems to be a busy day.. get up, rush to work, attend meetings/ write reports/ discuss cases, have a good lunch (that's always the highlight of the day), back to work, try to leave before 8pm, go for dinner, laze around at home and it's time to check mail/ chat on the phone.. before it's bedtime again. Weekends are packed too. 

Last sat I attended my cousin's wedding at My Humble House, which was quite a different experience from the usual wedding dinner at the usual kind of hotel ballroom. Besides the nice ambience and nice furniture, I found, most impressive of all, the "wedding cake" that was actually a mountain of eclairs/cream puff, each with some words or designs!!! That was seriously quite unique!!! As compared to most other hotels with a half fake cake.. this could be shared with everyone and it was really nice.  

And my schedule for this sat... dentist in the morning, going to my bridal studio in the afternoon to get ken's vest done, and in the evening I'm meeting my wedding coordinator to sort out the program and all the who's doing what. On sunday it's church as usual, bible class, then collecting my new house keys, followed by a wedding dinner (yet another one) in the evening. 

Life is such a hussle and bussle some times... Need to stop for a cuppa coffee sometimes..

9 more weeks

Counting down... 9 more weeks to go before the big day!! Getting all excited!

Have sorted out most stuff, finally got the soft copy of all the wedding pictures taken last month. Next week there's food tasting (yummy), going down to the lawyer's to complete the house transaction.. and then I probably will have to start finalizing my guest list and sending the cards out!!! And Yujun has just confirmed that she will be coming to the wedding dinner in HK!!! Yippee!!! Jun, got to tell u first, the wedding invite is in chinese! So I guess I have to address it to YuJun and JunJie? Signed off by MingEn and ZhiYang? Sounds weird. Haha. Anyway, happy happy... going to see Jan too in July too!!!... wonder if we'll take more silly pictures... or maybe more cool and relaxing ones like the one here :-)

Back from Perth

Came back from a real good holiday last night!!! It was quite an eventful week.. Perth wasn't that boring actually and in fact I think the place is nicer each time I go. It was my 3rd time to Perth in 6 yrs and most people think I'm crazy to go back there again and again, and this time I did not even drive (which is almost unthinkable to Australians). But it didn't turn out that way. I realised the secret. First of all, choose a good weather. Secondly, you have to go with a relaxed mind, see the flowers, listen to the birds, cycle round swan river, eat gelare ice cream, whop up the all famous apple strudel, go for a nice breakfast (i.e. waffles and cappuccino), drink wine after dinner and watch Federer vs Nadal in the Hamburg Masters title, go into little spice shops or home decor shops and think about what would be nice for your home, drink smoothies and grab a snack or two from croissant express along the way... and yeah, just take it easy! I realised that Perth is not too bad after all except that things can be quite expensive. Yeah it's quite small but it's ok, at least it's not jammed packed and crowded. Anyway, so much for my hols.... you get what I mean. Can't write too much today cos it's getting kinda late. To be continued.. oh wait, actually I realised my friend Liling has posted quite a number of our pics on her blog. You can check it out too via the link on the left. 

Stolen

Sigh sigh.. after all my effort to make the cheesecake on Saturday, I brought the cake (in slices) to the office yesterday, left them in the pantry fridge in the morning.. and when I went to retrieve them at 430pm... half the box was EMPTY!!!!!!!!! Someone stole my cheesecake!!!!!!!!! Argh. So upset man. It was so much hard work getting the cake done and someone just took it without asking. So rude!!! Must be those *n****s!! Too many of them on my floor and they visit the pantry most often.. whether for talking, snacking, lunch, high tea, after work.. oh well. It was a bad day.. i was so upset after that man. Haiz. Can't people tell that only plain water and milk is FREE? And even though I did not double wrap my box, or use some kinda black box, or label that it's mine, doesn't mean it's free??!?! Duh. Anyway, terrible la.

Here's my cake from the side. Looks a bit flat. I think the strawberries are in wrong proportion that's why. But yummy yummy.. 

On a brighter note, I'm off to Perth next monday with my jc friend Liling! It's super free and easy but we've booked like 4 day trips (cos she cant drive and my mum refuses to let me drive alone) so no choice. To most people it's unbelievable not to drive in Perth but I guess it's not too bad. I'll try and let you know. I think i'll miss home during this one week but it's just for fun anyway - first time traveling alone with a gal friend. 

It's thursday tomorrow.. another free dinner from office cos some overseas colleagues are down for a workshop. Quite nice to get free treats once in a while in nice restaurants at the expense of the bank! Something to look forward to! :-)

And lastly.. counting down to 9June when I get my keys!!!  And 1 more week before I get the soft copy of my pre wed pictures which we viewed last week! Nice nice. At least something to look forward to in life!

Holiday tomorrow!

It's the last day of April today! Poof! 1/3 of the year is gone.

 

Tomorrow's a public holiday.. cant wait to savour every second of it. 

I had free tix to watch Iron Man but decided to give them away cos Kenneth has to study for his exam and I think he's been lazing around too much. Guess I'll spend some time cleaning up my room or making brownies... hmm... or maybe try cheesecake.. something different. 

Actually to think about it, I'm going to Perth with my jc girlfriend in a couple of weeks time.. or 1.5 weeks to be exact. Just the 2 of us.. a random decision made a while ago during dinner because we felt we had been procrastinating for a long time. And it's probably not going to happen after I get married so.... we decided to just go ahead! But to think of it now.... Not sure what we are going to do there for 7 full days (which many have advised a wee bit too long) but tickets have been booked so we're just going to go along with it. Hotels have been booked but we need to look out for things to do now.. although I know everything closes at 5pm there. Gosh, i think i'll be in bed by 9pm every night else I have to bring some dvds there to watch. 

Meantime, counting down to the 26th July.. it's less than 3 mths away!!! Happy happy. And Janice will be back again (yeah!!) and Yujun will be back for good after that too (yeah!!). Wow, a good 2/3 of the year to look forward to!!

To make my day.. hopefully it'll be a bright sunny day tomorrow (like this one on Mt Faber!)!

A week after Jun's wedding

A week after Jun's wedding.. 

I really missed last week... miss the stupid pictures we took.. miss the high tea.. miss learning how to bun my hair (Jan, I know how to do it properly now, finally!).. miss popping by Jun's house the night before the wedding.. miss painting nails... miss the morning when Jan & I drove excitedly to Jun's house.. miss the adreneline rush when the Canon in D started to play... miss the photo collaging... miss the dinner... aw...  it was a very busy week but now I'm missing every part of it!!! Sigh sigh. 

This week was really boring to start with. Back to work with lots to do. Started attending my CPA course on Thursday and it's obviously not so exciting. Today was even worse because not only is it the 3rd day of my CPA course, it's a Saturday and I had to be back in Shenton Way from 9am to 5pm for the course that was super packed with FRSs (financial reporting standards)!!!  Although the tutor was really good & funny but it was too much for me on a Saturday.. :( Anyway I have to study since it's the exam is next week.. am so dead man. 

And oh, my dept signed up for the JP Morgan 5.6km run next Wednesday evening, for which I am supposed to join and I haven't jogged for like... a few months? 

Anyway, it was much better after 5pm today. Met up with ken and we did a bit of shopping (we bought our bed) before meeting his mum and sis for dinner to celebrate his sis's birthday! We went to the Melt cafe @ the Oriental for the fabulous buffet there. It's really really really good. Went there a couple of times with my office before and it is really good. the waffles and desert selections are really yummy.. of course I ate too much once again, which is kinda why i'm still awake now.. 

Me below with Ken & family