I am getting more and more excited about my own wedding already. We are in control! Yay!
One typically doesn’t get such control with a package but a more seasoned us pushed for it. And I am getting this as my bridal posy. We love blue. So blue bridesmaid dresses, blue ribbons, blue carpets….shhh, I am not revealing too much yet.
Posted in Wedding
The Husband overslept today. Usually, he relies on me to wake him up but today, I was too engrossed in my dream to wake up.
The dream was like a story from Aladdin and his likes. I could even hear the music. The story was definitely a children’s fantasy but I’ve never read it before. It has something to do with shoes and having to sing for it.
Maybe it’s a sign that I should start writing soon. Watch out for the 2nd book!
Posted in Myself
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.
Posted in Love and Marriage, Myself
After hours of searching for themes, tweaking the codes, losing them and doing it all over again, importing and exporting…my back hurts, my shoulders are frozen, I am very proud to present to you:
The Wedding Manual has shifted! A whole new domain name, dedicated server, many supportive friends and fans, lots of coding resources and help, many more creative ideas and feedback, I am now almost in tears.
The book of pain, love, freedom and self-expression has gotten itself a proper shelter, ilane and my posts now get a decent presentation and most importantly, our readers are going to get even more addicted to us!
Many Thanks to people who helped made this possible.
Many Thanks to myself for persisting, for believing that nothing is impossible, for working like there’s no tomorrow.
I am bitchy this morning. When I woke up, I saw one missed call and 2 messages on the phone. Not a good start. The call came from a client who summoned me like his subordinate, the 2 messages came from some mishaps about somebody else missing an email. That was shortly followed up by another call from another client who thought I could give some free advice (again). More messages were exchanged about the mishaps of a missed email and I finally put my foot down. No more nice Ms Clarie. She is in a “Come near me, and I’ll bite your head off” mode.
I guess my face was so black that The Husband gave me some kisses and beat a hasty retreat.
I shovelled down 3 pieces of Lana cake which sorta save the day. I’ve never eaten it my whole life before and it’s so marvellous that I wonder what those criticizing reviews are about. Maybe the service was so distasteful that it mars the judgements.
Nevertheless, it’s a Monday, yet again.
Moodily drinking my coffee.
Posted in Life and Evolution, Myself
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.
Posted in Friends, Love and Marriage
The manicurist gave me a freebie today, she drew some flowers on my nails for free. And I simply love it, so gorgeous! My Virgin flowery nail:
…eery, disgusting, sad, “omg”, heartwrenching as I am writing now.
All because I had the nerve to read the financial news to know that DOW has fallen below 9,500 now, that Indonesia had to resort to suspending the stock exchange, that the UK banking system might fail soon, that people are pointing fingers at Fed for allowing Lehman to fall, that it is expected that some airline companies are expected to fold next year etc.
RBS has gotten into the negative highlight for its huge drop in stock value. The last time I saw RBS was during F1 where it is a major sponsor.
Property market is going to lag 6 to 12 months behind stock market and so it means, by end 2009, many private homes after TOP, are going to be let out for discounted pricing. Tenants would be difficult to come by, rental yield would drop. The speculated demand driven by IR will crash in the face of reality.
Why all these now? A better question is, why are we going in cycles? Why do we need to go through a major crisis every couple of years? Wasn’t the 1997 Asian financial crisis enough? Wasn’t the Latin American crisis enough? Events like 9/11 attacks and SARS have brought enough economic damage too. Why haven’t we learnt something to put an end to cycles?
A human life is so akin to the economics of the world. An unconscious live goes through cycles, suffers the happiness, sadness, joys and disappointments periodically so much that it’s predictable what’s next. The economics of the world is just as unconscious.
I feel sick in the stomach when I see the current news. There is a sudden wave of sadness as I absorb the negativity. Why do we have to go through all these again? With every quantum leap we take forward, we also take 2 quantum leaps back.
I don’t see it as a step to improvement. Maybe a step to change of platform but I wonder if it is even considered the evolution of the economic system. From a centric system, we have developed the capitalist system and its varying degrees of market competitiveness. With an ongoing cycle of economic crises, at this rate of companies folding, recapitalization by governments, we seem to be going back to the centric system.
Bite the dust…
Posted in Life and Evolution, Money Money
…listening to favourite songs, tinkering with blogs, avoiding all news to do with the market, speaking very slowly to clients, acting like an idiot, hearing the husband’s voice…do wonders.
Posted in Myself
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
Posted in Love and Marriage
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