My Greatest Muse

Many have been amazed by how cool and fashionable my MIL is, that she's always decked out in the most "happening" clothes. I am sometimes awed too, especially by her love for bags, which surpasses mine!

We went shopping the other day, and at the mere mention that "this is the LAST piece" and "there's always a LONG QUEUE for it", she said "I'll take it" without too much hesitation.

Damn 爽快 right?! But admittedly, I LOVE this one too, I kept sighing (in admiration) when I first saw it.


And because bag buying can be contagious, I succumbed to the long held-back lust and overindulged. *OUCH* the wallet went, but hey, only the greatest muses can make my heart beat faster....


A side note, The Boy commented that I was talking in my sleep the other day. Apparently, I was saying, "Ok, I'll take it". Now, sometimes, things are predestined, aren't they?

Coffee and Beans

I've fantasised about owning a coffee machine since the day we got the keys to our flat. I'm no hardcore coffee drinker, but having one of these sure adds a gourmet feel to drinking coffee!


And I do know of a friend who not only has one of these machines, but he owns a coffee grinder as well. So I jokingly asked him why not just chew on the coffee bean to get the most original of flavour? To which he replied that he already tried that, and it wasn't nice. This guy is really hardcore!

Hello? Hello?

I'm notorious for not picking up phone calls "regularly". I keep my mobile phone on silent mode at all times in the office and inevitably, I miss a few calls here and there. And I try not to pick up calls during meetings, unless absolutely necessary.

And so with the new "ronberry", when I asked to take pictures of my folks, so that their pictures will be displayed when they call, I ended up with the following shots:






Obviously, my husband has the hardest time looking for me.....

Rice to the Occasion

Maiden blog entry from the 'ronberry', from heng-parents' place, tapping into 'some' network...

Had a commentary by yours truly in the Sunday Lifestyle today, on the issue of the price hike of rice.

To which The Boy's first reaction was, 'but you don't even eat rice!'

-_-

To Have and to Hold

Am looking for a pouch to hold the "ronberry". Found quite a few options online, each more frivolous than the other.

Hmmmmm.... how indulgent should one go?

The Entertainer

Following his highly successful staging of what many in the company coined as "ST's best D&D in so many years", The Boy was approached by Fly to join them. As an entertainer.

Because of his "multi-talents" which include dancing, singing and acting. People who have seen our wedding videos and my birthday video would get an idea of what I mean.

Fly:: Think you've got potential. Would you like to join us?

The Boy:: I don't think so, I don't think I'm up to it.

Fly:: That's what many say in the beginning. You should give it a shot.

The Boy:: But I'm old already. I'm 30.

Fly:: Age is not a problem.

The Boy:: But I'm married.

Fly:: Er, Ok.

Haha, looks like age is not a problem, but being "not available anymore" is.

Actually, The Boy's ultimate wildest dream is to become an entertainer. This I really know, from the constant acting, singing and dancing he does around the house, and sometimes in public, causing numerous stares.

So this "opportunity" was almost like his childhood dream coming true, since the day he started to look up to Li Nanxing. He even had Li Nanxing's picture pasted on his primary school file - did all of us have those self-decorated and wrapped files during our primary school days??!!

I was highly amused by the Fly proposition. At the same time, I kinda felt sorry that he would not be able to fulfil this wild fantasy of his anymore, given that "Hello, this man is for my eyes only, for me and me alone"!!!!

Told him (jokingly of course) that if he really wants to become Pierre Png's colleague, then we can do the "lie low" thing for a couple of years - YEAH RIGHT! *rolls eyes*

Anyhow, for the sweet bit, he said, "Baby, of course this will not happen. You know I'll only perform for you, cos you're my greatest and only fan."

Ok, will spare him some housework for the weekend.

My Hero

Because of my obsession in rushing home every evening to catch my Raymond Lam in action, The Boy has decided to protest and vie for my attention.

It's, er, a hard choice to make between 10pm and 11.20pm every weekday evening!

Lethal TVB

While The Boy is away serving the nation, I've been home glued to Channel 55 the last few nights. I'm hooked, addicted to watching the serials that TVB has to offer. This particular one had me cancelling my gym sessions the past 2 evenings, and rushing home just to catch it.


In fact, even after the 2 episodes ended, I continued searching for the site to download the whole series. Ended up finding only selected clips on the youtube. But I watched them anyway! Till wee hours of the morning. And had trouble waking up the next day.

So eager I am to watch, that I'm contemplating cancelling all activities for the next few days, just so that I can go home to watch Raymond Lum in action. I gushed about how charming he is to the BBs. Haha.

And because it would take time to download the series, I might just rent them instead. I prefer to think of this as "celebrating the auntie in me".

Serving the Nation

The Boy will be on reservist for 2 weeks. Got the following out of office autoreply when I sent him an email this morning:

Hi, Thanks for your email.

I am currently on reservist duty.

During this In-Camp, the army is training us on the art of telepathy.
Please stand by to receive my thoughts on your email.

jem.

Yet another reason why he's my beloved abang.

The Greatest Blow Job of All

What happens when your organisation requires some 50k balloons for the balloon drop at each of the countdown to Christmas and New Year? You deploy all 400 over staff to embark on this massive balloon blowing project, for 3 days leading up to each major public holiday.

The feeling of accomplishment after that is pretty satisfying though, when you had fun playing the rubber with your colleagues and seeing the prettiness of all the balloons together.





It's almost 5pm now. Most of the world has stopped working to usher in the New Year.... while we're here nursing our sore fingers in the office.

I need to log off now!!!

Here's wishing everyone a blessed New Year!!!!!

Our Time

I've probably whined about this before, that both Jemej have been so busy at work, that we don't get to spend as much time together as we would like. And in times like these, I only wish my little toaster could be used more often.

Toastie was bought when we were in London a few years back. That seemed so long ago! This year alone, I think it has been proudly used, like 2 or 3 times. Only. *bows head in shame*

Just like one of those days a few weeks back, when we both took the day off to spend time with each other, the opportunity to make and enjoy a leisurely breakfast was pure bliss. Each time we have such "complete" breakfast, The Boy would then go, "Ah, how I wish I can have such scrumptious breakfast every day." To which I replied, "Sure, retire me now, I'll make you ANY breakfast, ANY day!!!"

Nice Lunch He Had

The Boy and I have this little thing that we always do before going into lala land each night. We have this "Daily Dosage of Love", or "Do-dol" as we call it (not sure how it was derived), which we take a little bit of time to tell the other party about the thing(s) that he has or I have done that day, that we are appreciative of each other for.

Just the other night, when it was his turn, in his state of sleepiness, he said, "You are like my beef rendang with steamed rice, so comforting." Well, lucky for him, he didn't say "so spicy" or he wouldn't be having a peaceful night of sleep that day! -_-

And I sure hope that it was the makansutra "die die must try" standard of beef rendang!!! =p

Looking Forward

It has been crazy times these days, with the momentum building up towards the festive season. Was mentioning to The Boy the other morning on our way to work, that the stress is piling on. Especially with the numerous groups of friends we are planning to have over for Christmas, all the cooking, cleaning and all.

He said, "Wah, not bad what. It seems like you don't have much stress at work, to be thinking about what to cook for Christmas." To which I replied, "EXCUSE ME! I'm a woman, I've got MULTIPLE roles ok!"

Tsk. Men, what do they know about the different roles we women have to play? To be wife, career woman, daughter, daughter-in-law, and for some, mother, all at once? We do everything, from taking care of the home to managing our work. The involvement never stops from the moment we wake up. No time to "relak one corner" like the boys. Double tsk.

Anyway, my calendar's almost full already, with the countless number of events, meetings, parties. Work and social. I feel tired looking at them already.

Gosh, I'm looking forward to January already.

The First

A first:

Travelled on the KPE this evening. The taxi uncle convinced me that it'll be shorter than the usual way back. Nice.

Another first:

He called me "madam". A few times. I haven't quite come to terms with being called Auntie, let alone this new status. Have I come of age? *Ouch*

Time to beef up on those anti-aging products.

In Shock

Just came back from the Citta Bella A-list Stylish Women event. Am still in shock. Because I won the title.

In all honesty, I was absolutely not expecting to win anything at all. I got involved in this project because I wanted to help out a dear media friend from the publication, I wanted to support his efforts for spearheading this. I thought all the rest of the women were equally, if not more, deserving of this. My short session of conversation, during the make-up and dressing, with some of them this evening had been very inspirational.

And lo and behold! For now, I'm still in disbelief, cos I've never won anything, not even lucky draw. Except for winning the heart of my husband. Haha. What I'm totally delighted about though, are the prizes. Ted Baker, here I come!

Meanwhile, here's ripping off the page from r@e's blog. We were laughing so hard when I pretended to "sign autograph". So uh, ignore those mindless scribbling on the page! =p

Passion on the Road

Following our adventure in the C-Class Challenge a couple of months back, The Boy was given the C200 to drive around for a couple of weeks, on loan.

Great marketing idea, but personally, I still prefer the curves of the BMer.

Anyhow, with the C200 and our Blackster parked at his office that evening, I had to go over to help him drive back one of them. Because he had said earlier, "I have 2 kars, but I can't drive 2 cars back with my 2 kars." Ok, point noted.

So on the road we went, me in Blackster trailing behind the C200. I felt like we were in some Too Fast Too Furious car racing movie, me trying to keep up with him, he trying to slow down to wait for me, us trying to keep other cars from cutting into the lane between us.

And when we stopped at red lights, we would wave at each other, him through his rear view mirror. At some point, he even pretended to put his arm around an imaginary female passenger (knowing that I can see everything so clearly from behind), and kissed "the passenger". I high-beamed him. And the driver in the car next to him thought The Boy was acting weird. Haha, or bi good.

All this, machiam like we were "chasing" each other around on the roads, felt quite romantic leh, heh heh!

But I couldn't take this "separate route" any longer. We left Blackster over at Hengparents' place, and we continue going around on one car, together. Because this is where I belong - next to the chauffeur husband.

Play Badminton

I learnt new vocab in the office today. Gosh, it's AMAZING.

"Pattern more than badminton."

In hokkien, it was said to me.

?!How did that come about?!

Did You Ever Know That?!

I made a major discovery today, while I was accounting my saga of the aircon condenser to the BBs at work.

I filed a complaint to HDB, against the neighbour directly upstairs, at the topmost level. Their aircon condenser has been dripping water onto ours, making very loud "dak dak dak dak" noises for a long time now, almost since the day we moved in.

Why haven't we done anything about it till now, you may ask. Well, we did try to tell them initially, when I was very disturbed by it. The splashing water droplets not only make very loud noises especially at night, they also wet my window. We went upstairs to "confront" them first. It was a Malay family, so they couldn't understand what we were saying. Or maybe they were pretending?? We had a hard time describing it by pointing here and there.

No improvement thereafter.

We went up a few times subsequently, but they never opened their door again. So we had to resort to writing "nasty" letters. We tried to drop them into their letterbox, but the flap to their letterbox was always shut tightly. How does the postman ever get letters to them, I wonder?!

It was then, the BBs said, "But the postman puts the letters into your mailbox from behind what. The front flap is usually locked to prevent spam mail."

G-A-S-P! I never knew that! And always, I was wondering why there is a lock to the flap. The Boy, in his explanation, said that maybe because locking the flap would keep lizards out. Right.

So there, we just discovered the fact that we CAN reduce the amount of junk mail and leaflets in our mail lor!!! After all these while can!!!!

-_-

Home Sweet Home

Feels good to be back home - the familiar smell we so love. Although the floor is a bit too dusty, and I had a case of a badly rotten onion in the cupboard, ewww.

Just cleared some of the emails (which has grossly grown into quite an enormous lot), feeling all jittery and nervous about going back to the mayhem at work tomorrow. I wonder what lies ahead, following the bad news I received on our last day in Rome.

Whatever it is, Lord, please let me be guided by your faith, your wisdom and your courage. No trials and tribulations that we suffer as mankind will come close to what Jesus suffered on the cross...

Meanwhile, on a lighter note, here's one of our "adventures" in Italy - The Boy conjuring up different words from the word "Bruno" outside the Bruno Magli boutique in Venice. His cheekiness and creativity really melts my heart, makes me laugh all the time - and he's really good at doing that to get out of "trouble".... ;)

Toys

Emailer from Howard's Storage World just arrived in my inbox. Check out this new gadget - did you ever know such a tool existed??! Well, this is new discovery for me! Now, if only they have one for chilli crabs.....


And here's another one - a fizz-stopper to keep your coke nice and gassy!


I've always enjoyed and marvelled at some of the cool gadgets that Howard's Storage World brings in. Take this gourmet kitchen scenter for instance - I have one at home. I couldn't resist how cute this scenter looked - as a mini apron! And some of the drawer scenters I got from there have been very lasting, they make the drawers smell so good!