1st week of the final lap!

finally im in the 1st week of the final lap.
though the final lap is not exactly short & gonna make me all the more tedious & grouchy, but im definitely decidedly excited.
hubbi & i were chatting about it and we are both looking forward (anxious but still anticipating) to a new phase of our life!
*grinz*

my nephew - cute 到爆!

i've the smartest nephew in the world!! wise beyond his age of 28mths!
hubbi & i were around his house area yesterday for something. so we lent our car to hubbi's brother & family to use for a good 2 hrs+.
so the following conversation in his hse:

me: you want daddy to drive 叔叔's car?
jusjus: yesh.
me: so where will you sit when daddy's driving?
jusjus: at the back.
me: with who?
jusjus: with mummy.
hubbi: you want to drive 叔叔's car?
jusjus: no,no,no (shaking head with a smile)
hubbi: why jusjus cannot drive?
jusjust: bcos i baby.

LOLZ.

slow relaxing sat - i like!

i've a super tiring workweek. i never thought i'll survive it, given my over-the-top workload & my irritating bosses. *sigh*
but i lived through it and the weekend is here again. hubbi asked me to meet him at plaza sg yesterday after work. its been ages since i last went, and there seem to be some changes in the eateries stalls at its basement. we had dinner at this new outlet called "hot tomatoes" which aint too bad but not good enough to warrant a return though.

but my long workweek seems to have taken its toil on me. i was weak from sheer exhaustion when i reached home at 10+ and in an hour time, i was fast asleep.
but i had a good rest and relaxing day today. n it feels good!~
as usual, we wakey up ard 10+ and had our usual brekkie at the hawker near our house. after which, a still tired me went to nap for a good 2 hours+ ard noon while diligent hubbi went ahead to finish up all the housework chores. how sweet! *hee*

after 3pm, we set off to go window shopping at bugis! *wee*

hubbi + me!

we bought some clothes for bee bee & they are very cute! cant wait to see him wearing those cute pieces. :)

at 6+, hubbi dropped me at the waraku @ starhub building to meet the gang for dinner. its good to see most of them again. and candice is very sweet to bring back a top for bee bee. its a very cute polo tee. hiaks. the husband has something similar so perhaps they can wear polo tee together next time. :)

okie, photos ahead!

zm+tanny+ah d!

me+candice+ser hwee

candice+jx (we were having desserts @ centerpoint's TCC)

me+zm

hubbi came and picked me up ard 9+ and now we are home sweet home! im feeling sleepy again. lolz. think i'll turn in early for need to wakey up early tom for lunchie @ mum's place. yay.

constipation & prune juice

okie, not exactly a nice topic on a wednesday morning but i really feel that i need to share this! suffered from a particular bad bout of constipation during last weekend.
was stuck in the toilet, this close to crying. was crying out for help to hubbi but when he came around trying to comfort me outside the toilet, i got pissed.
you must pardon me for i've no problem with moving my bowels in my life (except once or twice). im really not familiar with this kind of feeling. ARG!

anyway, when the crisis is over, went online to check whats good for constipation. apart from the usual yaddah on more fluid/fibre etc, i saw the perfect solution! - PRUNE JUICE-!
apparantly, prune juice will help to ease the bowels and i grabbed one bottle that very evening. and it really works!
so far been drinking just half a cup on alternate days and my bowels have resume to almost a daily affair. just like last time! *grinz*

so wait no more, all you constipation-sufferers out there! drink prune juice, even though it may not be the nicest juice in the world.
okie, dun say i never tell you good advice on my blog. :P

in a vain mood

today is supposed to be R&R for me. but i ended up more tired than ever, i wonder why.
hubbi seems to be on a food frenzy for whole of today. we drove out to queenstown shopping center for mac breakfast in the morning, somthing which i enjoyed tremendously.

but after that, i was tired out and just wanted to stay at home and rot rot rot. but he wanted to drive out for lunchie soon after! so i moved my big butt and we headed to tiong bahru market for some light lunch. okie, i admit the food is good and im glad (to some teeny weeny extent) we made it there.

before long, we went to chinatown area and did some shopping. mainly bathing foam, toothbrushes etc for the house. BUT, i got myself new sunblock & mascara! yes, in a decidedly vain mood these few days. or, my beauty supplies just happen to finish up around the same time. taking shirley's (beauty guru, hiaks) advice, i got myself lancome SPF 50, PA+++ sunblock (power!) & maybelline volumnising mascara. :) will blog if they are really good when i get to use them. anyway, paul & joe pressed powder is really good! it settled in real nice, once it oxidised on my skin. nothing too thick/unnatural. nice! and the gorgeous packaging helps too!

by the time i reached home ard 9, im totally pooped. since im in a vain mood, i decided to go ahead and do a scrub & mask as well. now that im done, and my skin looking no different (bleh!), im just ready to hit the sack ANYTIME.

so tired. and weekend is ending. really ending. *sigh* how depressing.
if only the coming working week will pass by as fast as the weekend.

yet another typical saturday

my saturdays are falling into a pattern. yes, i've become a woman of habit. *shriek*
on recent saturdays, i'll wakey up at around 8+ (no thanks to my body clock) & pester hubbi to head out for brekkie.
like today, we went redhill hawker ard 9 am for our fav. breakfast - toasted bread with kaya & butter, milo completed with straits times. wonderful! :)

then its back home for "housework" time! sadist hubbi loves to come out with a housework plan for every weekend. its vacumn, washing & ironing of clothes + car wash this morning.
after washing & hanging up a new load of clothes, he proceeded to vacumn the whole house while i worked on ironing the last batch of clothes. after that, i was totally pooped that i just lie on the sofa to get some shut-eye while mad ah long proceeded to the car park to wash our car ALONE.

before long, its time for us to bath and get ready to hit the town! so far, such morning & housework routine works well for us for we can only drive our OPC after 3pm.
i decided to check out some bags today. in a materialistic shopping mood. so we headed to DFS @ orchard.

taking pic in car while ah long try to find a parking lot. *lolz*

as usual, hubbi made to take photo with moi!

sadly, i cant seem to find a nice gucci bag. it would be nice if there;s one i fancy for someone can get me at a good discount. in the end, i fall in love with yet another LV bag! its epi leather in lockit design!! i was THIS close to buying it on the spot when ever-rational hubbi suggested me to buy it during year-end instead.
i took his advice and it seems all the more logical the further i walked away from the DFS building. seriously, i think w/o him, i'll just buy buy n buy n turn mad one day. lolz.

oh, in the end, i still managed to find something for me to buy. *heez* gotten myself a nice paul n joe pressed powder. been using only shu uemura loose powder since dont-know-when. but as most of you know, my face broke out at the start of this year and even though my skin has become much better than then, loose powder is not really enough.

i NEED coverage! so heeding shirley's advice paul n joe pressed powder is fine and good, i got myself one today! :)
cant wait to try it tomorrow.

hubbi and i brought his parents to waraku @ starhub building for dinner after that but the food standard for tonight seems to dip. *sigh*
and we went serangoon road for durian feasting after that! now my tummy is stretched to the thinnest, about to burst! *burp* i think i put on 2kg from this evening alone. *blech*

okie, gtg rest. so tired out. should have taken a nap this noon!

the letter, bad karma & gucci

and i got the letter! :) let's just say im quite happy with what i got. though my colleauges said my ambition is just shockingly low. lolz.
anyway, its good enough to sustain me for a year before leaving for greener pastures! yay!

but today has been terrible. my newly promoted colleague has gone bad and i really hope he will just stay the hell off my back! *grr*
spoilt my day & loaded me with work. damn.
im supposed to leave at 530 sharp to meet gb they all for dinner but guess what?! i stayed back so late that hubbi came to fetch me in the end. *pui*

i HATE staying back on friday!

one more week. one more working week and 2 days & JULY will officially end! im SURE august will be better. dont ask me why, i just know. :I

BUT, on a GOOD side note, someone may just help me get a gucci at great discount. hmm, i should get hubbi to accom me to go window-shop tomorrow. its never too much to own just another bag huh? :)

busy @ war

yesh, been really busy for the past 2 weeks. i thought i won't survive but hey here i am! at the end of a thursday work day! its fridayyyyyyy tomorrow! *yay*

so been doing recon for forecast vs budget. finalising budget figures. doing up slides. attending meetings after meetings. amending budget figures again etc etc etc.

the whole thing just seem like a never-ending nightmare.

but a good thing to note is ive been able to go off work at 7+ sharp for most days except for yest where a meeting just gotta end at 8pm. *pui*

whatever, i reckon working life will start to ease up by aug which is only a week + away! *wee*

THE letter
should be getting it tomorrow. evil boss has gotten it but is holding on to it for reasons known only to her. i seriously hope the pay revision/increment this time round is good!

oh, on another side note, will be getting a one-off $500 cash bonus this mth for our good first half year results!

yay, the amt will comes in handy for my CD bag. yesh, the bill has yet to arrive. :P

weekends - dunch we love them?

still, my weekends are filled with fun activities with hubbi. or at least i tried to make them so.

last weekend we explored 2 new shopping malls. friday was spent at central at clark quay.

yup, our first time there after it's opened for so long. nothing much there for me except for the array of restaurants. i guess we may return soon to try one of those atas restaurants bah.

harry potter on sat!! i love the book! cant say the same for the show though. but cant help it when you tried to squeeze hundreds of pages to a 2-hr show. hubbi later brought me to this italian restaurant for dinner - Rialto @ Kiliney road. the portion is good and the price reasonable. :)

we went united square 2 on sunday since we've never been there and we were dropping hubbi's brother off after a lunch affair at my in-law place. its a boring small place!!

okie gtg. hubbi has reached and im going mum's place for home-cooked dinner! *wee*

roller-coaster morning
woke up feeling extremely grumpy for the weather last night was too hot for me to have a good rest (even though the air-con was on). but my journey to work brightened me up considerably. for one, hubbi sms-ed me for a date out with him on friday! *grinz* its been ages since he last asked me "formally" for a good o'date. heez.
hopefully, i'll get to go off early this friday for our soho @ clark quay date. :) oh, and a lady gave up her seat to me on the bus for the very first time!
decidedly exciting for a short 20+ mins journey to work.

but once seated in my cubicle & refreshed my inbox, i saw an avalanche of emails (all asking for work to be done) & also realised that im due for a meeting that has already started 10 mins ago. blah! so i wolfed down half of my brekkie & dashed for the meeting. what a way to start a work morning. pui!

now finally back in my cubicle and having cleared most of the stuff outstanding, i finally have time for a breather. *phweee*
i wonder how my noon will be. in case you do not know, these 2 weeks are the "peak" period for me. we are doing our budget exercise for next year. hopefully, everything will run smoothly without me staying back too late.

okie, later!

i love today! hubbi and i had a tiring but nevertheless entertaining day. for we got stuff done and explore new places together. ")

morning and early noon was spent tidying up the house. finally, 3pm arrived (ours is a weekend car :P) and we were all set to go!

hubbi supposed to take a pic for me but somehow he took our messy bookshelf too. blah.

1st stop:we stopped over at tiong bahru to get harry potter tickets for next sat. heez. very kiasu hor?! but i cant wait to catch the 5th installment of the show! we wanted to grab "zodiac" from the play station there but it's not out yet. so movie night no more for us tonight.

2nd stop: we went walk walk at forum. its been ages since i last went there. still the same old atas shops. lolz. we spent an hour or so over there & at borders. by then, i was quite tired & my legs felt sore & aching from all the walking/standing. *sobz*

3rd stop: decided to bring hubbi to dempsey hill area to take a look at those new restaurants/bars/shops there. he was relatively excited when he reached there, given its his first time there. cant blame him for it really doesnt feel like one is in singapore over there! very nice ambience! :)

we walked around like impressable schoolchildren, taking in everything with glee.

excited hubbi (though not looking the part as usual)
its ben & jerry! *yumyum*

we decided to have dinner at Oosh in the end. the ambience is really nice there and the food is surprisingly affordable. they do not have service charge & GST there! :))

our dinner! @ Oosh!

we trotted back for some dessert at ben & jerry before heading home. by then, it was near 9pm & the area was almost pitch black except for the light from the shops & some faltering street lamps. they really should improve on that!

now im finally back at home sweet home. very tired. should bath and hit the sack soon. hubbi was fast asleep beside me on the sofa now. hmmm... must wake him up soon. *evil smile*

hubbi is back from south africa! :)
happy that he's finally back for south africa aint exactly the safest place on earth. :P
and he bought home a painted ostrich egg for our house!
see, i think its a beauty! and we improvised by using the apple tea cup we bought from turkey to double as its stand. lolz.


now its standing proudly on our tv console. :)

and i worked OT for the first time (i think so...) for this year! and it has to be on a friday night! *pui*i stayed till nearly 9pm! but hubbi was very sweet to buy dinner & came to my office to give me that. so the last half hour of my "OT" was actually spent eating dinner & chatting with him at my cubicle. *hee*

but whatever, the weekend is here again! *wee*
as usual, evil hubbi made me cook lunch for him today. but i did lah, given he's away for so long & he "requested" for it.
now im hot and bothered from cooking and ironing. i wanna go bathe and hit the town sooN!
yes! before the weekend ended too soon agaiN!

发现再发现

这个礼拜过得有点失落,有点孤单.
只因老公不在.
很奇怪的感觉,明明周围尽是人与事.

发现,原来最想念的竟是他的手.
老公与我的手如果在熟睡翻身时碰着,会不自觉的握在一起.
平时没多大感觉.
但这几晚在大大的双人床上,竟然怀念起来了.
尤其是现在的我,半夜总因翻身而迷迷糊糊睡醒.
蒙拢间突记得他不在的感觉总有点错谔.
还好,很快我又可以再握他的手了.

还有,昨夜发现宝宝也会安慰我.
半夜失眠真有够难受.
但在老公的一通电话与宝宝的一番"跳舞"后,
突然觉的失落感减少,睡意增加.
终于在凌晨四点回到梦乡.

rolling on & THE orange bag

time flies! i cant believe im rolling on to the 2nd half of 2007!
yay! before i know it, end of the year will come and i'll be ready to embrace a new phase in my life (hopefully! :P)!

to celebrate (for no reason at all), i decided to get myself the bag that i've been ogling like... one day (?!)! lolz.
tada! gorgeous huh!? at least to me. hubbi is totally not buying my "orange-is-my-fav-color" reasoning for the purchase.
whatever. im a happy girl. at least for the weekend.
*roar* the materialistic me is still alive and kicking! heez.