apr is sweet!

*weeeeeee* my bonus has finally come in & apr ended on a beautiful note with me sharing some major good news with my closest friends. :)

Bonus with a capital B
finally a year of toiling or so in a less than desired workplace paid off (kinda....)! my bonus (pro-rated & all) was credited to my bank account last wed & i had busied myself paying bills, transferring to my savings a/c, giving out ang-baos to my family etc.
and before i know it, my transaction bank a/c balance which i last checked is a miserable balance for the whole month of may. *meg hair*
back to square one. bleh.

im finally proud to say my savings is at a healthy level. :) not alot per se but its been awhile since our wedding last year that i see any decent form of savings on my side. heez.

been fun playing santa. esp. giving out ang baos to my mum. crazy mum kissed the ang bao i gave her when im at her house last saturday. lolz.
been trying to get the husband some stuff too. have asked him what he wants & the feedback is a tailored shirt & a pair of cuff-links. hopefully, will get him those soon before i spend the budget on myself. hehe.

a visit, birthday dinner & good news
saturday was a long n tiring day for me. was up bright & early by 9am and we made our way to tiong bahru mac for some delicious breakfast! *yummy*

hubbi & me!

learnt some good news thereafter & made our way to my mum for lunchie. & then its *wheezeeee* on #5 to orchard road in a jiffy via PIE/CTE!

done some window shopping before meeting up with hubbi's family for a light dinner at a jap restaurant at taka. the agedashi tofu is one of the best i ever tried! :) and my fav. peanut butter baby likes me alot that day. *happie*
he kept on wanting me to play with him. :))

then its off to city hall to meet the gang for the birthday dinner for ah D & ser. trotted to timbre for dinner & the food was really nice and affordable! esp, the pizza! absolutely tasty!! but to dine in sweltering heat & dubious flying insects around us aint exactly appealing. so we made our quick exit back to raffles city for drinks & desserts @ gloria jean at the basement.

we had great fun & laughter again. n took a nice grp pix, thanks to the timer function of tanny's digi cam. hee. will upload once she email us the pic!

bits n pieces

weekend is over far too fast! but im happy for april is almost coming to an end! *yippee* welcome, may the month of many many holidays. *wee*!
and i've a good weekend i guess. :)

friday was nothing eventful. hubbi & i made our way to the soup spoon outlet at raffles place for a quick spot of dinner. after that, we made a beeline for home as i was feeling pretty tired out again. the good thing that came out of the evening was linda deciding to pop by our house to for a quick catch-up!
its been eons since i last saw her & i showed her all my wedding/honeymoon photos at one go! hehe. but its really nice just gabbling rubbish with her! :)

and finally the long awaited musical "phantom of the opera" arrived on sat!! i woke up bright & chirpy to prepare myself for lunchie at mum's place before meeting zm for the musical at 1+.

moi all ready to go! the husband giving me the evil eye for abandoning him to finish up housework at home by himself.

the phantom' set is really fantastic and worth every dollar of the expensive ticket. but i must admit having wakey up at 7+ in the morning took the toll on me. i found myself dozing off at certain parts where christine kept on singing and singing about nothing in particular. heez.
but im not the only one. zm & ser had the same problems. lolz.

sun was lazy n a good day of rest for me. we left for hubbi's parents home for good o'home-cooked lunch. played with my cute nephews!

they cant stop jumping on the mattress. so cute!

after which we left for grocery shopping at tiong bahru before heading home. we finally managed to catch "the godfather II" DVD that hubbi got for me last time.
it was good but abit slow for him i guess. it has 2 of my fav. actors from last time - robert de niro & al pacino! wayyy cool!
esp. de niro. he's good. just like the real stuff. a don! a don! call me don vito! lolz. they made mafia look good again!

i feel like catching godfather I! curious to see if marlon brandon was really good as don vito! for de niro portrayed a really convincing young vito!

and i've been playing well with my paint set! *tada* another cute lion with pink mane & cheery sun are my latest creations. heh.



anyway the husband made some really tiny windfall from his shares yesterday & since we were out at raffles city, strolling aimlessly, i managed to bring us to the toys department again to grab something! heez.

in the end, managed to convince him to get me a set of TABOO! & a mega block spider-man 3 set! haa, he's always interested in spidey but without me pushing, he will never get such a set.
thinking that it will be great fun constructing it together & it really made a nice display set, i persuaded him to grab it since there's 20% disc too.

and we've fun playing taboo for sometime yesterday night before he got tired of such intellectual game & we moved on to the spidey set!
it took us nearly 1 1/2 hours to get it all set up but its really worth the effort!

see the end result is sooo nice. its the final battle scene for spider man 3 where we've sandman, green goblin, venom & spidey all together. some of the parts are really fun like the crane can swing around, a button to control the length of the white string that spidey is holding on, some planes can be pushed to scattered make-believed sand all over the place & a spidey web that will catch the baddies. FUN!

im glad we got this. & i've my eyes set on another set from the pirates of the carribean set! hopefully, hubbi will get dividends from some of his portfolio soon. hiaks!

on the road to recovery

with some persistance & research, my skin problems are on their way to recovery!

hive-like rashes on tummy-dum-dum
COCOA-BUTTER OIL is DA answer! *tada*
bought a bottle from good'o pharmacy & slapped on to affected areas diligently twice a day after bathing. my right itches no more & my worse left side is under control.
no more itchiness! just some ugly darkened marks left.
whatever, this will fade with time and im sure it'll be a long time before i appear in bikinis.
lolz. okie one down, one more to go!

sore-reddened lips
still fighting the war. but VASELINE is the wayyyy to go. kept it well-moisturised like 24-hours a day. even my assistant commented on how "oily" my lips is. heh.
the redness have all but disappeared. now left only left the side of my lips still sensitive & abit reddish. but as the husband commented & affirmed by my assistant, its much better than last week.

okie, im think im happy once more.
now left only with catching up with my deprived sleep tonight. *yawn*

joy of being a kid for a day or two

i've a lovely saturday! hubbi & i went to mum's place for some really nice home-cooked food for lunchie. i miss my mum's deep fried pork chop (dipped in soda-biscuit crusts)! *yummy*
after which we discovered a new bus # at my mum's place - - - # 5 which got us to town in less than 20 mins time via highway.

dinner was at one of those small eateries next to cold storage at taka basement. we settled for a jap outlet since i've craving for katsu curry & it seems to specialise in just that!


bb looking pleased with his choice! - pork tenderloin curry set

mine is pork tenderloins with ebi prawns! the curry is nice & a set is quite reasonably priced between $11-$14 with no additional charges.
anyway, look how round is my face. i've really pile on the pounds! even my mum commented on my thunder thighs. damN!

after dinner, hubbi & i had fun browsing the toys section! i love getting lost in this department, feel like a kid again! and i cant bring myself to get Taboo for the nth time. anyone wanna buy for me??? lolz.

and in the end, with the husband's encouragement, i bought home this!
-a glass paint set!


This is how it works:
Step 1: choose a design that comes with it. put a clear sheet over it.
Step 2: Using the black glass paint, trace the outline & give it approx. 30 mins to partially dry.

Step 3: Let your creativity flows with the 10 paint colors that come with it! fill in the design with colors of your choice!

*tada* a cute giraffe is borne! Now you need to wait 12 hours for it to dry completely before you can peel it off the clear sheet to stick onto any glass surface.
fun, yay?

while waiting, i selected another design and started working on it! rudolph & santa claus!!

okie, i admit. bad choice of color here but given the limited paint colors, i've a green reindeer & chinese santa claus in the end. haha.

and after a day, i finally get to peel off giraffe & stick it on our notice board in the kitchen!
soooo cute! n soo fun!

okie, its been really fun being a kid for these 2 days. i cant wait to start on another design with hubbi! :))

skin skin woes

i am very upset with my skin condition. :(
the breakout on my face is old story. im not too much bothered by it now. its kinda under control, AFTER i stopped using the prescibed medicine. how stupid.

but now i've hive like rashes flaring up ard my tummy area! *madness*
this has happened before when im in cold environment, like our honeymoon trip in greece/turkey when the temperature dipped below 3 degree celcius.
i recovered when im back in sg. but now its back! whats up with my skin or the air-con in my office? is it too dry/cold.
bleh. its very itchy & sometimes i cant sleep at night! what a bother.
with a good moisturising cream, i hope this problem will go away soon!

AND, my sore lips is acting up again. i've dry lips all along & with bad environment (read: cold/dry), it will get swollen n puffy n red. n now it IS like that. my lips is surrounded by this ridiculous circle of redness. they look like an ugly version of nelly's hahaha!

sianz! hope my skin problems will heal soon! but my cruise trip in may may trigger them again. bother bother bother!
life can be smelly-smelling at times. bah!

movie review!

time for movie review again! watched 2 movies recently with promising start but slight letdown at the end. here go!

#23 (spoilers ahead)
caught this show with hubbi last sunday. had rather high expectations for the premise of the show sounded really intriguing/entertaining & its one of jim carrey's rare foray into serious films.

plot is simple: one man stumbled upon a book, aptly named #23, which had a protagonist who is obsessed with the no.23. suddenly, carrey's character realised many disturbing similarities between him & the book character. & everywhere he turns, the no.23 is prevalent. his life is moving in almost the same direction as the book. which is a bad idea, cos the book character ended up killing his lover, & carrey's character has no wish to kill his wife. so what he must do (or so he think), is to find out who's the author & solve the mystery before the bad deed happens.

the show was good in the beginning where we just chugged along with the flow of the show (which is kinda fast). n no.23 is really everywhere, so fun! lolz.
but as the show progress, i can almost see the twist coming up. and the ending is let down by the totally predictable, safe twist.
in short, carrey IS the author himself. having a dark past & conveniently suffer from memory loss after writing the book. fate had it that the book found him again, n he get to clear his skeletons in the closet.
*yawn*

i would much prefer the author to be the wife & see how the plot ties it back. but perhaps just too hard for hollywood nowadays. bah!

sunshine (spoilers ahead also)
met up with jx & dan yesterday for this show. watch it mostly for cillian murphy. hehe. i remember i 1st saw him in "28 days later" & was thinking this guy 的眼睛真的是misty 的不可以! so pretty! then i saw him again in "red eye" & think ewww this guy looks weird. what i didnt know IS he looks weird in "28 days". lolz.
still his eyes are gorgeous! just look at 'em in "sunshine"!

okie, back to the show. plot is simple too: 50 years down the road, the sun is dying so earth needs to send out a team on mission to "re-ignite" it with a stellar bomb (using almost all nuclear resources on earth). the show started with our cast, an 8-person team of scientists/astronauts setting off in spaceship - Icarus II. as all missions in space are, things started going awry when they receive signals from Icarus I, the 1st team to be send out 7 years back & which disappear ever since. making a detour to Icarus 1, hell break loose. whatever can go wrong in space (scientifically) WENT wrong.

it was really good so far. the problems seem real, the way the characters respond/react seem logical & the CGI effect of the space & sun really leave you kinda breathless. humans are really like so small in comparison to the vast galaxy!

but as all seemingly good shows, sunshine has to introduce a totally irrelvant & letdown twist in the last 20 mins. which totally ruin the show! bah! bah! bah!
i'm gonna spoil it here: apparantly, the previous captain from Icarus I went religious-mad & think that its god's will that humankind should die out. so somehow he managed to get all Icarus I members (except himself of cos) to abandon the mission & just die. and he sneaked into Icarus II & create havoc in the last 20 mins of the show.

i HATE this part. i HATE him!
1) all astronauts should be tested & deemed physically & psychologically fit before setting off such a mission. how come he just turn siao halfway!
2) why is he still alive (all burnt up in scarred skin is very ridiculous) & so strong DESPITE being trapped in the spaceship for like 7 years (read: no exercise n boredom can kill just almost anything!)?! and if he's sure its inevitable that humankind will die, why didnt he die with his crew?! selfish pig!
3) simply cos he made this great science-fi show degenerates into some cheap gore slasher film at the end! *grr*

okie, enough about my angst.
im ready for my lunchie. n hope this working week will whizzes past! *wee*

recap - what i like best!

time did it again. the long weekend flashed past like THAT fast! whizzzzz....
and the husband and i've been to lotsa places this long weekend. all over our small island, heh.

let me do a recap of the weekend like i always love to do. in chronological order, of cos! :)
thursday
my boss wanted things to be done last minute & i stayed in office till 7+. *sobbie*. all plans to meet hubbi at city hall was foiled for i managed to make myself feel v v v tired by then. so he ta bao my fav dinner back home again -- soup spoon! so happy!
we spent the evening n night lazing in front of the tube, basking in the knowledge that its only friday tomorrow. :)

friday
woke up bright & shiny in the morning & made our way to my mum's place in no time. nothing beats home cooked food! *yummy*
i miss mum's cooking. :(
it was off to parkway parade after that! where i religiously had my durian ice cream from scoopz. *yummy* it was nice just window shopping at all kinda stuff & before long, i grabbed a shepard's pie from Don's pie (which jean has been raving to me about) and made our way to east coast park!

yeah, u heard me right! east coast park. lolz. if not for my hall mates having a chalet over there for the long weekend, its v rare of me to pop by there! it was fun seeing them all over again though the husband got grumpy halfway. heh.
i had fun just bbq-ing and polishing away sinful food (think sotong balls, satays, taiwan sausages, chippy chips etc). :)

saturday
a short n rather uneventful day. went to marina sq for some window shopping. but was back in the house in less than 4 hours time. no thanks to me.
was feeling rather unwell & tired so hubbi had to usher me home fast. spent the evening feeling bleh. my in-laws came to look for us and i gained myself 一打的燕窝. *grinz*
hubbi shall have no share of that at all. *muahaha - evil laugh*

sunday
left for my gramps in the noon. i miss my big extended family & i got to eat home-cooked food once again! *yay*
my auntie peanut-lotus soup is so good i drank THREE bowls. talk abt being a disgusting pig.

big-head cousin was kind enough to drop us at orchard. gotten aware of something disturbing/funny. goes like this: cousin's gf called him when he's driving us. unable to take the phonecall himself, he got me to do so. so i was fretting how to tell her im me, as i gathered it must be horrifying to hear a girl pick up your bf's phone call.
in the end, i intro meself the generic boring way:" hello, this is ah-han's cousin. he's driving me & my husband to town now, hence he cant listen to your call".
after that, i asked my big-head cousin:"so what does your gf know me by? cousin? ah-hui?"
and he just said,:"ah bui".

!!!!i was totally disgusted. thats like my nickname by my cousins when im *ahem* kinda plump back when we were totally young, like pre-primary? the nickname is supposed to be contained within our circle & die with us! *grrr* whatever.

for the free ride, i managed to refrain myself from twisting his neck. okie, tired by the long post. more updates soon!

backlog of pics

lack of photos for quite sometimes cos i lazy to bring cable to office to upload pics. n i seldom update my blog at home. heh.
so now, backlog of misc photos!

dinner meeting with grace, zm & ah D on dun-know-what-date. we had so much fun laughing ourselves silly at isetan scotts TCC.
we were using the camera timer function n trying to capture the perfect pix but to no avail. lolz.


nelly's farewell last last friday i think. this is the nelly i know best! silly & rubbishy! haha
i starting to miss her. *sobz*


lunchie @ borders bistro with hubbi on dun-know-what-day again. remember i wasnt feeling too well that day but still managed to tuck into the super yummy tuna sandwich n chippy chips that come along with it. hehe.
below, me sipping warm water to make myself feel better. im soooo glad that im feeling much better nowadays!


had dinner @ sushi tei raffles city with ah D, grace n gb last fri. somehow the katsu don set there is not really appealing. lucky dessert afterwards at Haagen daaz was really good!
chocolate fondue is the wayyy to go!
look! they've ice-cream, fruits & n scones to go with warm chocolate. heaven-licious!


and last pic to end it all - shopping therapy. been feeling kinda crappy this week so went to town to look for the husband yesterday. dropped by isetan, determined to use up all my remaining vouchers, and managed to get these!
hope the make-a-difference moisturiser will really make a difference to my skin heh. since my breakout late last year, i ve almost stopped all kind of skincare but decided recently, thats not the way.
even people with oily skin need to take care of their skin, no?
will try the charcoal mask tonight, hope it 'll work! :))

its the start of the month again. how dreadful cos its my reporting period again!
reports to be churned out, analysis to be done, ad-hoc meetings with my evil boss etc. and all these madness wont end till the 12th!
im still able to go home fairly on the dot but its getting harded when everyone ard you is working late. bah!

but im strong (despite being a 病猫 these few weeks) & a survivor!
i will pull through to take whats rightfully mine end of this mth --- my BONUS! hiaks.

okie, enough of work nonsense. back to chirpy sunny stuff.
its CONFIRMED - our 3D2N Malacca/KL cruise triP! *wee*
hubbi & i will have our short getaway in mid may! a mth filled with holidays (2 only, to be exact). *yummy*
i cant wait to just eat my heart out, stroll along the deck with the husband & have hearty chats (to his horror) in our cabin. :))

and oh, yesterday went to sistic to grab 2 concert tickets. you guys will never guess whats that for.
its.... *drums roll*..... 汪明荃 concert! lolz. before u think im mad to attend this concert, stop! im bringing my mum for mother's day lah!
heez. it'll be on the 12th of may & i hope that i wont fall asleep among the screaming aunties. lolz.

*burp* my lunch left me feeling bloated once again. bleh.
when will 630 ever come? *hmmm*