shopping (what's new), food craving, transformers & an orange bag

shopping (what's new?)
time passes faster during weekend, i swear. it was only like just now when i bounced out of my building at 530 to meet hubbi at raffles city for a relaxing friday when its mid sunday now already! *jeez*
weekends are getting better nowadays and thats what make it all the more irritatitng when they have to end. :(

so on friday, we had dinner at our fav food outlet, soup spoon! Yummy! after which we strolled around for some window shopping. in the end, hubbi bought more stuff than me! what a surprise huh! he got himself a new wireless mouse & i got him a nice set of cuff links finally!

look! i chose the design for him. isnt it nice!? its mother of pearl flanked by onyx. easy to match with his unbelivable boring range of white/blue based shirts bah.


food craving (potato mentai!)
was having a bad craving for waraku yakiniku don & its potato mentai ever since fri! so on saturday, i made hubbi agree for dinner at the branch at starhub building before our movie, transformers, at shaw. :)) (yesh, thats a double chin for me. im becoming ridiculously fat. and im shocked with my own nonchalence about this whole thing)

oh, and i've a haircut last saturday if i didnt get to mention this in my previous posts. this is me in my new haircut! really cooling for the bizarre hot weather nowadays!


waraku's yakiniku don is as delicious as ever! though hubbi was slighly turned off by the over cheesy-high carbs-buttery potato mentai. lol. but its pure heaven for me! cheese + gan dan! what can beat that!

bb with his curry noodles & yummy potato mentai!

transformers - surprisingly good!
i ve my reservations for the show initially but it sure is easily the best film for 2007 so far! kept us at the edge of our seats for the whole show & peppered with enough humour & wit to make us laugh as well. the yound male lead, Shia LaBeouf, was surprisingly a natural at acting considering his young age of 21 (born in 1986, gag). looking forward to seeing more of him in his future films, disturbia & Indiana Jones 4.

but being a critical person, cant help pointing out some parts of the show which i think can be improved.
- how come they didnt show more of decepticons' logo? its sooo cool. since young, i always feel that its much nicer than the autobots one. hiaks.
- optimus prime's voice. somehow the voice is just a normal nice robotic voice. lack the leader quality leh. unlike megatron's voice which really instilled a sense of fear and awe in you when it speaks.

an orange bag - CD
happened to chance upon a nice leather bag at isetan scotts that is going at a rather attractive sales price. im really tempted to get my hands on it! but there is really no reason for such a buy recently.
hubbi, ever the rational one, asked me to think about it & as usual try to dissuade me from it when back home. but i cant stop thinking about it.
hmm, shall go down to town later after lunchie at mum's place to REALLY consider again.

hubbi outta town

the husband is leaving town for work again!
this time, all the wayyyyyy to SOUTH AFRICA - johannesburg !!
and for 5 nights at one go!

mom will only be staying over for 2 nights only, so what am i supposed to do for the remaining 3 nights? *sobz*
and i cant really go paint the town red in his absence nowadays.
so not-fun. *sigh*
okie, think think think i must. *scratching chin*

when will june ever end!?

i've enough of June - unexciting month!
good thing its finally coming to an end this friday. *wee*

finally onto harry potter's book 6 - half-blood prince. the story is getting darker and darker & harry potter more and more irritating. lolz.
still, i am hooked to the plot's developments! will definitely feel empty once i finish it.
will be awhile before i can purchase the soft cover version of the last book which will be out next month.

meantime, im crawling into the peak period of my company! its forecast weeks for last & this week. so far, still manageable with me not staying back late.
but i sure did work hard during the office hours!
then it'll be the budget period for the next 2 weeks which i will foresee myself staying late perhaps 1-2 days per week.
*groan* come to think of it, july sucks too.
nomind, at least i got the letter to look forward to.

okie, back to work work work for me!
and will 7pm quick come! so hubbi can fetch me from work!!!

shopping therapy, worrywart & small talk is really unnecessary

shopping shopping
the husband and i decided (or rather I) to do some shopping on an otherwise normal & mundane wednesday. so he came fetched me from work at 7pm sharp & both of us dead beat from work but restless me refused to just have a "simple" dinner and then home to rot in front of the tube.
scheming mind working ahead, i got the husband to bring me to try ..... botak jones! it so happens that the nearest branch is actually right at depot's lane - a stone throw from my working place. so we whizzed there for a quick spot of yummy western food. pricey, but the food is really good! i had fish burger while hubbi had the botak chez set.

after which, we decided to go scotts isetan to see if we can get some decent shoes. hubbi has been eyeing this pair of geox shoes for the longest time. and so he got them, finally. and me? i was desperately in need of some sturdy comfy shoes so i settled for a pair of clarks. but it threatens to give me blisters for the past 2 days that ive been wearing it. :( hope my reddened skin will eventually get used to it! bleah.

and today, hubbi has finally dragged me to Oxford to get his shirt tailored. been ages since i got my bonus, and he's finally getting his reward from me. hiaks. shirt to be collected in 10 days time. now, when will we ever get a nice pair of cuff links for him?

worrywart
im a worrywart. no doubt about it. good times seem like a luxury to me and my mind wanders off to the negative whenever i deem everything to be too peaceful to be true.
i really should stop doing this! so detrimental to my mental health. bah! i must have faith!

small talk - do we really need this?
once upon a time, i prided myself to manage small talk with almost anyone. sorta like a testiment to my high EQ. or so i thought.
nowadays, small banter with people i dont regard as friends seem really meaningless.
so much so, that i've to muster all my strength to just NOT roll my eyes. sigh. im getting grouchy, impatient & unlikeable with age.
but really, small talk is unnecessary. trust me.

random random

been feeling lazy to blog recently. not that my life has anything exciting to blog about anyway. anyway, waking up bright & early on a saturday morning calls out for some celebration, no?
so here i am, perched on my study room chair, munching on some combos (which happens to be one of my fav. snacks other than jack n jill salsa chill chips!) and decided to shoot my mouth off for a(long)while in my blog.

In no order of importance, of cos
1) friends of ba bee boo (me lah! who else?)
as mentioned earlier, one of my friends is flying off to HK to start a new career soon. the reality hasnt quite sink in but i know we will miss her sorely. *sobbie*
*yong, must keep in close contact & come back often!* of cos, we can always fly over given that we are only 3 1/2 hrs apart. take care of yourself, not like that silly nelly who made us worry for her. still, glad that we managed to meet up recently at your house for some yummy prata supper & delicious dinner @ MOF @ marina sq on monday! been ages since i last saw GS & gerry too!

talking about silly nelly (has a certain rhyme to it hor?), really hope she'll take good care of herself & have a satisfying n fulfilling period in NYC in time to come. *nelly, you are soooo far away so must take care of yourself, hor!?*

met up with fi & yan for a short while on thursday evening. realised i miss them loads! been 2 mths since i last saw them? gosh, sometimes i miss those days back at hall. youth is a painful thing. no matter how much you enjoy it, you know its not ever gonna come back again. pui!
luckily we still have adulthood & *ahem* old age. we can keep the people, just not the time. pui (!) again.

then its ah d & ser for dinner & chit-a-chatty on thursday night too. its the same old thing whenever we meet up... *yawn* which is ..... LAUGHTER & GOOD TIME! lolz. poor ah d wont be in sg for the next few weekends till mid july. so it'll be sometimes before i can see him bah?

oh, met up with suling yest too after a long span of 3(?) months? glad that she still seems fine & she sure has some concrete plans for herself for next year. hope you can carry them out well, babe! she may thought she's the last to know about my news, but she's really not the last. hiaks.

the problem with me nowadays is i tend to live like a hermit for sometimes before i launch a whirlwind of social activities. for the past week, been meeting up people like nobody's business. and im gonna play MJ at grace's house later today with zm & ser. *yippee* not to mention the dinner outing with stella & the girls tomorrow! *weee**

friends, what can we do with/without them?

2) hubbi (sulky one)
given the above spate of flurry activities without him, its no wonder the husband aint too glad with me this week. to make it up & giving in to his whiny request that its been eons since i last cooked (like 4-5mths ago? tee hee), i cooked dinner again this tuesday for us!

appetitzing anot? the husband seems to think so. *smile*

its just jap curry with potatoes/carrot/ & pork bits. of cos the curry not whipped up by me. i just bought it off-the-shelf & warmed it up. lolz.

3) my other passions in life - books & movies!
getting crazy over the potter madness only JUST recently. saw a 3-for-2 deals at borders last week & decided on the spot to grab the 6 harry potter books at one go. have demolished the 1st 2 books over the week - philosopher's stone & chambers of secrets are good! kinda forget the details since the movies were like few years back! now onto the 3rd & if i didnt remember wrongly, my least fav of all the movies - prisoner of azkaban. the movie was confusing & i dun get some of the parts. hopefully, the book will clear up the doubts.

watched fantastic 4 with hubbi on thursday when we took a day off to get some admin done. it should be called normal 4 as ah d suggested. not that its bad, just that its wellll.....normal. nothing too exciting. but i must say the silver surfer is really cool. but too little character development is always a distinct feature of fantastic 4 series.. so thats that.

4) pay increment & revision
really looking forward to july month for my pay increment and yes, pay revisioN! think my coy has finally understand we are grossly underpaid n decided to throw in a pay revision on top of the normal yearly pay increment this time round. *yay*

evil hubbi has mentioned that im the 老鼠屎of the household since i've room to grow before i hit the CPF ceiling. he has reached that and there s really nothing much he can do to shorten the houseing loan of our flat. hence, from his viewpoint, i should up my contribution to do my part in shortening the loan. bleah!

*crossing finger* let's hope that will happen soon and we can go revise our contributions when we made our yearly paydown next year! :)

okie, got to dash n bathe. if not, i ll be late for mum's lunchie back at ubi. tata!

lalala

Jazzy
we've our jazzy for almost coming to 3 weeks! having a car is really very convenient though i must said that the cost of maintaining one is not exactly cheap. i still maintain that taking a cab everyday is still cheaper than owing your own set of wheels.

anyway, i digress. the advantages of having jazzy are:
-hubbi has been diligently fetching me off work for the past few weeks. :) wonder how long he can keep this up. hee.
-we can whizz around to new places for dinner
-travelling to & fro our parents' places is now a breeze during weekend
-having an OPC means parking is relatively cheaper & no heavy traffic for we use the car in the evenings during weekdays & weekends
-i've fun fiddling with the air-con, radio, cd-set etc. lolz, the life of a passenger (aka no licence lah!)

of cos, there's always the pitfalls:
-having an OPC means i've to wait till 710 before hubbi pick me up from work. he can only start the car at 7pm sharp during weekdays. trying to get accustomed to this since staying a minute pass my official off-time kills me
-the hefty installment of $1k+ for the next 2 years, and the petrol, parking etc
-washing the car. so far we (or rather ah long himself) washed it once and it seems tiring. bleh

tada, presenting our jazzy! pardon the bad lighting.


I love mac breakfast!
hubbi brought me to the mac branch near farrer park on vesak day. that place look nice with a pond to boot!
my appetite getting heartier by the day, to think i can wolf down a sausage macmuffin with egg meal & still feel not full! lolz.


hubbi with my happy meal toy. a dragon from shrek 3 apparantly. yes, my meal can't satisfied me so i ordered another 2 pc hotcakes happy meal in the end. gross huh?


good news
my mum won 1st prize in 4D! not a lot but a modest amount to keep her smiling till the wee hours of the night. heh.
the winning nos are the last 4 digit of her new home phone number. and she gave hubbi & me big fat ang baos yesterday. *wee*
mine is decidedly bigger than his. hiaks. bo bian, my mum plays favouritism since dun-know-when.
and she's treating a feast this saturday. *yummy*

lastly, a pic of hubbi & me recently. in case you guys forget how i look like.
and yes, i know my face is rounder now & my nose is fleshy and all.
stop the comments!! bleh.

终于雨过天晴了.
终于能松口气了.
终于可以放心了.

we should really count our blessings. really.
the last one week+ was fraught with worries & depression for me.
in any case, im just glad that everything is fine now.
though still have some on-going problems now, im still glad what life has to offer me. :)

p/s: dont ask me what's wrong. i will say when im ready.