Saturday, January 27, 2007

I love hawker food

It's been a long time since we had a "feast" at hawker centres, because we had been going town and major shopping centres too often. Today finally we had dinner at the hawker centre at the HarbourFront bus interchange. We bought $10.50 worth of food, I was full to the brim while Gladys was full (she didn't want to overeat), and we had some bread left uneaten.

We had hokkien mee ($4), kambing soup with bread ($3.50), and hao jian ($3). There were 5 prawns in the hokkien mee, and quite a lot of eggs and oysters in the hao jian. Basically, nice food. Cheap hawker food rulez!

Thursday, January 25, 2007

Ms Chia is gonna TRAVEL THE WORLD!!

Last week, my yr 1 skills lecturer, Ms Chia, retired at the age of 60+. She's gonna go travel the world for the rest of her life!!

I feel soooo excited for her! I remember tt before David and I got together, we said tt when we're older, we'll travel the world together (not as a couple). Now tt we're together, of cos we're still gonna do tt. MUCH earlier than Ms Chia tho!! Our aim is to be financially free by 40+, so now we're working towards tt!



Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Feeling a bit lost

Feeling a bit lost and far from my dreams. I seemed to have lost direction and focus at some point. Seems like I have lost myself in the looking at diamonds, weddings, jobs etc that I've forgotten about my laying the foundations of my dream, forgotten about the investment club etc. Sometimes I just feel like I don't have the strength to go for it. What with all the various demands of my time from so many other things.

Sunday, January 21, 2007

Bought Clothes for CNY

Finally managed to get clothes for Chinese New Year. I was really sianz by the fact that I had to get new clothes, because it meant looking for suitable clothes and spending money. However, this time really lucky (maybe because of my dear), and I've managed to get a sleeveless top and a pair of jeans for CNY already! In just one trip, and took a quite short time. Really cheap too. Think this year I spent the least compared to the other years. Just $20 in total. $10 for the top, $10 for the jeans.

Where did I get such cheap clothes? Believe it or not, it was at This Fashion at MacDonald House.

Saturday, January 20, 2007

Got Something Today...

We went out to town today for Suki Sushi buffet and shopping...


And David gave me this!


Nice and big...... =)

Getting FAT!

Argh.. Really can't stand it man, I'm piling on weight lately, but can't get myself to go exercise. Just always feel so tired and lazy.

Just signed up for Kickboxing classes tho. Hope tt will get my butt moving finally and let me shed some pounds! Otherwise I'll b forever cursed to b fatter den David... In the meantime, I of cos haf to KEEP STUFFING HIM!!!

Friday, January 19, 2007

What's up with the Rain fans?

OK. I know I'm probably going to offend some Rain fans (if there are any who's reading this in the first place). But I'm really just so pissed off with the kind of behaviour that the fans displayed (from what I saw in the news). What is he? He's just a singer. He's not like some God or what. I think even if Jesus were to appear, the people wouldn't go so crazy.

And honestly, I seriously suspect that most of the fans don't even understand Korean. How are they supposed to appreciate his songs?

Busy on Forums

It's quite funny how both of us are now so addicted to forums. Me on SingaporeBrides.com, and Gladys on PriceScope.com.

Actually, Gladys intro-ed me to SingaporeBrides.com. But I didn't have the time back then. Now, I actually get to read and post a bit more on the forum since my projects haven't start yet. But I think next week onwards, I'll start to get busy already.

As for PriceScope, Gladys just goes there to look at diamonds stuff.

Catholic Engaged Encounter

OK. Gladys has been bugging me to put this update (although she hasn't been updating the blog herself, probably because she's just too busy with PriceScope)

We went for this Catholic Engaged Encounter over the weekend of 12th to 14th Jan. It's a compulsory event Catholics have to go for before we can get married in church. It was quite an interesting seminar actually.

Throughout the 3 days, there were talks on what couples should talk about and how to settle disagreements etc. Basically things that you should definitely discuss about before marriage. Since we have discussed those topics many, many times, we found ourselves just talking about other things a lot of times. However, there were certain parts of the seminar that we still felt very good about, like the prayers and the sharing.

Sometimes it can be quite surprising though, that there are actually couples who have not discussed the issues that we find are crucial to discuss about. And their weddings are like a few months or even just a few weeks away! Gladys' sister told us that she and her now-husband managed to know each other a lot better after the encounter weekend. For me and Gladys? We were just re-assured that what we have been doing so far has been correct.

Of course, not every couple did not discuss the issues before this. Coincidentally, the couple sharing rooms with us (we were separated into all male floors and all female doors, and the guy who shared my room is the fiance of the girl who shared the room with Gladys), felt the same way as us. That the session was more of a reassurance.

Maybe one thing that I did discover about myself is that I have a much-larger-than-normal-people appetite. I can't believe how much I ate at each meal compared to the rest of the people sitting with us.

I guess the main highlight of the whole encounter was the proposal by a guy to his fiancee. After 11 years of being together, the guy finally proposed to the girl during our sharing session at the end of the whole encounter. It was quite a touching scene.

Overall, we really enjoyed ourselves over the weekend. The crowd was great, the priest was great, the presenting couples and the house couples were great. In fact, we felt so happy about the weekend, we signed up offering our help for any other events.

The only not-great thing about the encounter was the travelling, I guess. It's all the way in some ulu (for those non-Singaporeans, ulu = secluded) corner of Punggol. We took almost 2 hours to get there. When we got off the bus stop, we had to walk a long way to the place in the rain, and there were no indications where the place is.

So, for all the Catholics who are reading this, please do sign up for this CEE early in your planning for marriage, or just once you think you want to get married. For non-Catholics, maybe you can come talk to us and find out about what is it that you actually need to talk about before marriage.

Sunday, January 07, 2007

WARNING! Gross picture! M18!

OK. This is really gross. We saw this BIG, FAT and PINK lizard in my kitchen above the dining table!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! Gave us both goosebumps.

5 days week

I still can't believe the fact that I'm having a 5 days week this semester when I had like 3 days week for the past 2 semesters...

I seriously hope this will be the last semester with 5 days week for me. After all, after this semester, I won't have to take 5 modules per sem, thanks to Honours Year Project. Quite scary though, that I'll be moving to my final year soon.

Visit to Istana on New Year's Eve

We were out in Orchard, walking to PS from Taka when we saw that the Istana was open to the public, so we went in to have a look.

The grounds were really big.The field is actually also a golf course, I think.

It was so big that there was another gate in the grounds.

There was a cannon, a fountain etc. Basically, the Istana seems more like a small town estate.





One quite interesting thing was that even the drains were very nicely decorated. Ever saw drains lined with marble?


After walking for like 20 minutes (during which Gladys kept complaining about the walk being so long), we finally got to see the Istana building.

We didn't go in though. We were just too tired, so we turned around and headed out.

We were thinking, maybe next time we can have a picnic in the Istana grounds! Haha.

End of temp work, start of school

Unbelievable how time flies. Before I know it, my temp work at DBS has ended. Tomorrow starting school. Sigh...

I must say that it was an interesting 7 days at DBS. The assignment I was tasked with was quite challenging. It was really satisfying completing it. I can't reveal too much details here, so I shall just say that I helped to shorten a process that would have taken maybe about 4 man-working-days to half a-man-working-day.

One other good thing about working at DBS for these two weeks: Lots of free food. My MD gave the whole department a treat at Grand Hyatt, The Straits Kitchen. And we had a few-departments=combined lunch on 29th Dec to mark the last working day of the year. And we had a small gathering on 5th Jan to celebrate pple's birthdays.

But, next week, it's back to school. Sigh...

Monday, January 01, 2007

Happy New Year!

Well well... New year's here again! HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

2006 went by really really fast. Now, in less den 5 months, i'm gonna b graduating!

Sorta having mixed feelings lah... Happy tt i'm finally gonna b out of NYP, but kinda scared abt which dept i'm gonna land up in after i grad.. Heard tt sponsored students dun really get to choose!!! ARGH!!

On a lighter note, i've added a counter from TickerFactory.com to our blog to countdown to our anniversary! =)