My Birthday Pressie at last!

My wedding fell on my birthday too. For days, I hounded the Husband about my pressie. After all, I am still a girl at heart who wants to be pampered with gifts. My beloved sisters presented me with a cute soft toy and a couple mug. But…where’s my hubby??? Well, granted that he was very busy with our wedding, and he was afraid to get something that I didn’t like…he asked me what I liked. Sigh, so unromantic. Heck, I announced I wanted a bag. Not those from the malls but a designer bag. So we went shopping for one today.

Sondra

Marc by Marc Jacobs! My first designer bag.

Thank you Hubby! I assure you this kinda pressies, will be …. rare, annually okie? Haha!

Amazing Weekend, Dreadful Monday

For the first time, the Husband cooked breakfast for me on a Sunday. Wah.

For the first time in a very long while, we went to KTV together (with his bunch of very crazy army friends).

And we got more housewarming gifts including 4 Ritzenhoff draft beer glasses and 1 large champagne. (I continue to marvel at the generosity of friends).

We ate ourselves silly on Canadian Pizzas for 2 consecutive days and watched more anime on Sunday.

We ate some nice Korean food at Far East and I would love to visit again.

But it poured on Monday morning and my legs, for some reason, felt like lead pillars. Am feeling lethargic too and work is well, demanding. At least, LLMD is a nice break.

I feel lazy, I feel like escaping. Uh oh.

Housewarming 11th Oct 08

Our house never held more than 10 people at one time until yesterday. Housewarming started at 3pm and the place started to get crowded before 6. While The Husband was happily explaining to everyone how our “IKEA showflat” came about, I was contented to watch many movies in the living room with some good friends.

I hope no one came down with food poisoning or whatsoever, since I cooked the beehoon, muffins and cake. When it comes to food and personally cooked by the hostess, I guess we locals got a lot to talk about. Beehoon not salty enough, cake a bit too hard. Ok, I didn’t get negative views of the muffins. Hey, it’s all wheat-free, diary-free, stuffs that can give your digestive system a break. But I guess, we just prefer real butter and milk. Melamine or not. But it did get me thinking about presentation.

The Husband and I were once again bewildered by the generosity of our guests, like how it happened during our solemnization. This time, we were presented with some 250 bucks worth of Harvey Norman vouchers, a juicer, an aromatherapy diffuser from Crabtree and Evelyn, a Lana chocolate cake (you gotta pre-order this!), Gobi macarrons with dessert wine, Beard Papa cream puffs, pancakes, a carton of wine glasses, many bottles of red wine, ice wine and even Chivas. Thank you! They just answered our wishes for another fan (for the kitchen), a hard disk, a well-stocked winery and refrigerator.

No matter how tiring it is to host a gathering, (considering I had to wake up early to cook, clean like mad the day before, and about to clean like mad again later), I do look forward to the next one. It always feels warm.

Dream Dates

where to go dating, what to do during dating …. dreaming

1. go walk around the horticulture park

2. cycling with me as the pillon rider

3. some damn good beer at Paulaner’s

4. go to night safari

5. watch marathon movies

6. play with sparkles at the backyard

7. shut down facebook

8. pull out the internet connection

9. cooking together

10. a nice meal in a quaint restaurant

11. running together

12. visit books actually, casual poet

13. walking around to take photographs

14. spa together

15. go to those out of way places for nice food

16. visit essex

17. concerts at esplanade, vch

18. flea market, this sunday at delta rd

19. set up stall together for a day

20. being surprised by a small present

A Meme about The Husband

I am in the “sick of market, sick of work” mood. And hence this entertainment.

About The Husband

1. He’s sitting in front of the TV, what is on the screen?
He is flipping channels and is more concerned with his car parking and farming on Facebook.

2. You’re out to eat; what kind of dressing does he get on his salad?
Mayo, and lots of it.

3. What’s one food he doesn’t like?
Plain water.

4. You go out to the bar. What does he order?
Something that’s not too outrageous, not too expensive, not too meek.

5. Where did he go to high school?

Difficult Chinese

6. What size shoe does he wear?
Erm, almost my size lor…

7. If he was to collect anything, what would it be?
A lot of old bills, advertisements, woman’s magazines, old comics, books about relationships…he’s odd.

8. What is his favorite type of sandwich?
Anything with cheese.

9. What would this person eat every day if he could?
Japanese stuffs.

10. What is his favourite cereal?
He ah, high maintenance, likes to eat Post Cereal…with blueberries or whatsoever.

11. What would he never wear?
Singlets.

12. What is his favourite sports team?
Soccer team…is it Man U or Liverpool? Or neither? Whatever…

13. Who will he vote for?
Himself.

14. Who is his best friend?
Hmmm, I shall not answer this question. Sensitive.

15. What is something you do that he wishes you wouldn’t do?
Grabbing his fats which he thinks no one can see.

16. How many cities/countries has he lived in?
Two.

17. What is his heritage?
Potato. Haha!

18. You bake him a cake for his birthday; what kind of cake?
Wheat-free chocolate cake, since that’s the only one I can do so far and something I can eat. heh!

19. Did he play sports in high school?
Chasing girls count?

20. What could he spend hours doing?
Oh man, parking cars and farming on Facebook.

Hey dear, love you!

Island of Romance

We just got our photoshoot pictures. Suddenly hit upon an inspiration that these pictures can be used to promote Singapore! Hey STB, good idea or not?

away from the hustle and bustle

yes, we have deep blue seas

gone with the wind on the island within an island

Our loved Durian

F1, Financial Hub, Clean roads...

Spaces in Your Togetherness

ilane and I were just discussing marriage some days back. When I chanced upon this poem, I finally got the idea about balance.

On Marriage
Kahlil Gibran

You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore.
You shall be together when the white wings of death scatter your days.
Ay, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God.
But let there be spaces in your togetherness,
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love:
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Fill each other’s cup but drink not from one cup.
Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf
Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone,
Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.

Give your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping.
For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.
And stand together yet not too near together:
For the pillars of the temple stand apart,
And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other’s shadow.

You Have Stolen My Heart

After many burnt weekends scouring the island for furnishings, cleaning and doing up the house, we finally got to date!

We made it just in time to watch Wall-E at Kallang Leisure Park, then browsed the shops there and discovered a really cool house phone. Kinda like Phillip Starck-inspired sleek minimalistic design.

Then we went to Brewerkz. Wow, more than 10 years after it has opened in Singapore, have I finally got to try it! And we really pampered ourselves. All thoughts of wheat-free, diary-free diet were thrown out for the night.

drink up!

dear, your love handles...

this kebab lasted for dinner and next day breakfast.

see the thief of hearts

And then we walked from the suspension bridge, across to Tanjong Rhu, fancying the condominums, around my old school, caught every last bus headed for home.

Sweet.

Directions to MacDonalds

I was just msn-ing The Husband, who is on night shift, that I am hungry and craving for nuggets from Mac. It is usally kind of infuriating to hint to him that I need some pampering, that while I am fully capable of buying it online, I very much prefer him to buy for me before coming back home. After some time, he got the idea but was clueless where to buy. So much for working in town area and not knowing where the nearest Mac is. So the typical geek way is to check online. He went to this site http://www.gothere.sg.

And guess what.

The instructions read:

1. It’s just a short walk away. Come on, don’t be lazy, walking is a good form of exercise. Walk to Capital Square.

Man, I feel vindicated.