"Have you come here to play Jesus?
To the lepers in your head" ~ One from U2

i have said it more than once, but im going to say it again. U2 "One" is really good. even after so many year, it still sound to me like the greatest song ever.

updates on renovation
renovation has been gaining a life on its own. one that im pretty much not involved with. heh. kudos to ah long for supervising it! :)

so far laminated flooring was done. lights, air-con and toilet accessories were all installed. we are left with capentry work namely,
-feature wall for plasma tv
-feature wall for bomb shelter
-kitchen cabinets
-wardrobe
-vanity top in master toilet
-bay bench in study room

after which, we are ready to move in after purchasing the remaining furnitures!! yippee yay!

speaking of furnitures, we've bought our mattress from harvey norman last weekend! :)
the brand was OMAZZ. anyone heard of this before? http://www.omazz.com/
stumbled upon it when i went to the mattress fair at harvey norman (ALL mattresses were going at 50-80% discount! yes including all the major brands like Sealy, Simmons, Serta, Dunlopillo etc). i was actually quite decided on getting one of Sealy's posturepedic range. but as OMAZZ is recommended by one of my colleague who got it sometimes earlier this year, and i love the way the mattress supports and provides comfort after testing it.

OMAZZ mattresses are 100% latex and not exactly very cheap. they are almost the same like Tempur just that Tempur one is memory foam while OMAZZ is latex. which means no springs! and no need to flip/rotate mattress and minimal sagging as compared to conventional springs mattresses!

all in all, it was a good buy (i think... ha). original price for our mattress (Queen size) was going at $7,599 but for the weekend alone, it's going at only $2,299! the Sealy that we want is at $2,199 after discount. in the end, we opt for the one that we feel that are more comfortable given the slight difference in price.

haha all the junk above on A mattress. but hey, i think mattress is the most important piece of furniture for a house (apart from the TV perhaps, couch potato dan may be able to vouch for this).

some misc photos

ah long & me in our house


me & my fav. baby


tada! limited photos of my house - common toilet!


lights for my master bedroom!

anyway what do you think of nice but boring people? i mean, im not exactly the most interesting person in the world. but recently, im having more than my fair share of such people. *help*

i miss travelling. *sob*

i want bold red for one wall of my living room.

tell me is this BOLD RED? look more like freaking pink to me..



damn. wonder what went wrong. i seriously hope its either a case of wrong paint used (so my contractor can jolly re-paint again) or as my contractor claim, there are still 2 more coats to go.

ARG!

misc updates here and there!

12th april
its our 4 years 2 months anniversary! lolz~ we went waraku for dinner and i must declare to the whole wide world that i LOVE waraku's potato mentai! it simply made me orgase with its melting cheese and potatoes! cheese & potatoes. i can live on these two like forever (forever being used as a relative term here. realistically meaning 1 week or so. :P)!

absolutely yummy yakiniku don & potato mentai!~

ah long's first time to waraku!

and finally, i managed to print out some from my huge back-logged digital pixs last wed too. the last time i mass-developed photos was in June '05 after my Korea trip so imagine the huge number of photos awaiting me to select and develop this time round!
much as i tried to be as selective and stringent as possible (Eg: i only printed out like 4(?) pixs for my D&D 2005 when i've near to 70-80 pixs alone for that event), i still ended up developing 200 pixs and being $40 poorer! *madness*

madly-developing photos

14th April
went for my ever-first virgin pedicure with fiona on fri morning! yes, i've tried pedis at BKK and manis in SG before but never pedis in SG! it was fun and i chose a delectable plum color! im gonna wear open-toed shoes for the coming week at least. the pedi is too good to be ruined!

after the pedi, i rushed to my new house with ah long to meet up with our contractor to discuss the design of our capentry works (namely kitchen cabinets, feature walls for bomb shelter/TV, bay bench, vanity top for master toilet). it was real hard work. the meeting went from 3 to 6.30pm. i never know deciding on designs, colors etc can be so taxing. *bleh* a good 3 weeks before i can see how the designs translate from paper to physical form. i hope they turn out just fine! *crossed fingers*

after that, it's off to waraku (again..) to meet up with Neleus they all for dinner. what a tiring day for me with all the travelling to and fro! almost got blisters on my poor pretty (freshly pedicured, okie?!) feet..
nevertheless, we had fun like we ALWAYS do. desserts were great at this shop....i forgot its name...seems to be azarusoba at marina sq. its next to billy bombers! not exactly cheap (mine is $8++) but servings is huge and best to be shared between 2.

pp & huishan with the menu ~ huge array of dessert choices!

waiting for our table...

me & my dessert! (soft ice-cream with black sesame paste!)

15th April
our toilet basins, taps, kitchen sink, storage heater, rainshower set and toilet accessories were delivered to our house at 12 noon! we (more of ah long! :P) sweated like a pig unwrapping and checking the stock for completeness. but the effort was worth it! i love our rainshower set especially! cant wait for our contractor to install all the above. but, our toilet tiles, toilet bowls and doors are all blue (bleh~) in color. damn the HDB rule that forbid us to hack the tiles within 3 years. refusal to change toilet bowls and doors stems wholly from lack of budget. *sobz*

went to catch "where the truth lies" with dear dear later in the day. Gist of the show as below:
"A female journalist tries to uncover the truth behind the breakup, years earlier, of a celebrated comedy team after the duo found a girl dead in their hotel room. Though both had airtight alibis and neither was accused, the incident put an end to their act." (extracted from www.imdb.com)


the show is R(21) and judging from the poster, you can expect lots of nudity scenes. there is one particualr scene which im sure will excite most guys...yay! a lesbian sex scene! :)
having said the above, the show still shines from solid performances from Kevin Bacon and Colin Firth. Bacon, especially, rocks with his Lanny Morris role. this show is supposedly a suspense drama which unfolds itself slowly but surely to reveal the truth behind the murder (focal point of the whole show). however, i feel that the show will come off better as a novel. incidentally, this show IS adapted from a novel.

16th April
dear dear and me went jalan besar to shop for lightings for our house. within 2 hours, we bought the entire house lightings from a single shop! Lights Arcade is the place to go if you are looking for quality lightings (they use either Osram (the best!)or Philips), sincere professional advice (jane is one awesome salesgirl) and reasonable pricing. Choices can be limited here but im sure one should be able to find here most of the lightings that a house required.

delivery of lightings are set for coming saturday. cant wait for them to be installed sooN! by this weekend, we can expect painting to be done for the whole house. next week, we can expect laying of laminated wood for bedrooms, installation of lightings, toilet accessories and wardrobe for master bedroom! yipee!

updates on wedding preparations

been receiving a lot of "how's your wedding preparations nowadays?".

mostly from acquaintances who probably ask because they've nothing better to ask. some from friends who are just not too-updated about my wedding preparations progress. and it dawned on me suddenly that too little are being mentioned here even though this is supposed to be my "wedding" blog. it seems to evolve to MY blog over time, much to the distaste of a particular Mr. Ah Long. bah, whatever. being the sole author to this blog gives me freedom to write just about anything under the sun, no?

okie peeps, here are the updates on my wedding preparations:
1) gown & suit: going for 2nd fitting for my WG & 1st fitting for my EG coming Monday. final fitting will be in may before photoshoot in june. ah long will be tailoring his shirts this mth-end. his suit is long done and collected in mar.

2) wedding shoes: i got mine made @ leaping lizard already. its simple and not overly done (for those few who actually saw). silver and open-toed. hope to recycle it for normal use after wedding.

3) banquet: quiet at the moment. invitation cards will be given to us in june for printing and will be pass to you guys by JULY! food tasting and selection of door gifts to be done in august and guest list to be confirmed by early sept.

4) photoshoot: scheduled to be in early june. still far awayyyyyy to me. will need to meet up with photographer to confirm shooting locations etc.

5) renovation: very much in-my-face nowadays. floor tiles, electrical & copper pipping are done. next week will be painting, laminated wood flooring & installation of toilet accessories. all in good progress, can realistically expect that renovation to be all done by end MAY! yippee!

that should be all, i suppose?

happy post

ah D just commented my last entry is too depressing. hence, this post shall be a happy one!!

Amazing Race
okie, let's talk about the amazing race with my Dow pple on saturday! i've tremendous fun that day! its been eons since i last ran around town (CBD area to be exact) like a mad woman! i'm pretty sure that we ran no less than 5km all in all for that game! kudos to jean for inviting us to this game held by her church!

Fresh & gay (happy lah) before the competition started at Chinatown point

jean & me!

we ran from Chinatown point->Ann Siang Hill -> Amoy Street -> hawker besides OG -> Far East Square -> UOB building -> Capital Square! my legs ache like crazy the next day but im thankful for the exercise that i otherwise wont be getting at all! :) all the sweat and pain aint for nothing, we managed to clinch the 2nd place and got ourselves $100 worth of Marche vouchers! yippee yay!

shhhhh....this is taken in a gir.. *ahem* toilet cubicle

the stanger (guy in blue nearest to statue) was game enough to pose with us for the game!

back at jean's church, awaiting for delicious dinner!

side note: there was this girl who was absolutely bitchy/rude at the church. it made me understand why i diss the people and not the religion. whatever, this is supposed to be a happy post, so let's move on!

My Cubicle
I love my cubicle! its qute bare and super tidy now given that i've nothing much to do now ha. its my little haven nowadays where i spend a considerable amount of time here everyday!

my cubicle is gonna be pink & purple color-themed! waahahha.. i draped my unwanted freebie shawl from herworld mag over my chair and there's ashley V cushion in it! Voila! i've my pretty frivolous looking chair!



haha, can u see dashes of pink & purple here & there?
let's move in for a closer look!


i like my happy dancing pigs wrist rest cushion! and always , and i repeat, always have your trusty hand cream and body moisturiser within reach. :)

i've my fanciful magnets to pin notes and very soon...photos up! in case you are wondering what's that tuft of white fur ball, thats my hp holder!
i fell in love with it at first sight and i bought it right on the spot. its a sheep with either very bad dark eye-rings or eye-bags. lolz~



He (It's a he, that im sure!) never fails to cheer me up!

hence, all in all, as i concluded with jean, my cubicle seems to make me look like a bimbo who cant work. and this facade may not be too far far from the truth! :P

stumbled upon this journal by mistake:http://www.janeyolen.com/journal.html

it's recent entries is about how the author is coping with the death of her husband. it made me teared as i read. the poem below by her is especially moving.

Sorry for Your Loss

I have not misplaced him--
like the wedding ring
he left behind at a ski lodge
six months after we married--
only set him aside
in a small grave
under a tree where robins sing.
They are thrushes, you know,
and their songs pierce,
especially at six in the morning
in the early spring.

I did not lose him,
except the smell of him,
already cleansed by chemicals,
flensed in the fire,
that reduced him to an essence
that can be blown into glass.
But the pillow that cradled
that dear head at the end
has the power to reduce me,
sunder me, render me,
into globules of fat tears.

I did not leave him behind,
but let him go ahead,
the pathfinder, map reader,
finding a shortcut
which always meandered
and led us to brilliant discoveries
like the last manned Scottish lighthouse
on the very last manned day.

I will follow, my love,
maybe not soon,
but soon enough
and you will have already
identified all the birds
and learned their songs,
in your new world,
ready to teach me
all the things I have to know.

shopping spree!

i bought lotsa clothes over the week! it all started on wednesday when i was window shopping at Topshop while waiting for jean to reach suntec to meet frances + gerry for dinner. we WERE supposed to shop for clothes for her but in the end, i've decided to buy a cardigan by the time she arrived!

dear dear and me went to our house on saturday. renovation progress is good! the false ceilings, L-box & electrical works were all done up! laying of air-con pipping & arrival of tiles will be on mon morning! :) took some pictures of our work-in-progress house. will post some pictures up soon!

after that, we went to tiong bahru to catch "Inside Man". The show aint bad but the plot can be tighter i feel. but aww....owen's voice made up for that! :) while debating where to have our dinner after the show, I wandered into Sense....and came out with 2 skirts!

today is my favourite baby one-year old birthday! he's so cute and he can walk by himself! and he kissed me on my cheek today! i just said "kiss me" and he did!

that big head was mine by the way....... he loves the slide alot. but i sweated like a pig carrying him up and down the slide!

went to bishan junction 8 today and yes....i shopped again. managed to grab a nice top from BYSI and 1 more skirt from NESS. my, i sound like im on a mad rampage for clothes. guess i've been repressing myself for too long! its a lucky thing that my progress package is coming in soon... ha.


28 days to go before april ends.....hopefully i can survive. provided i dont shop anymore! :P

love makes the world go round?
So does 5 shots of tequila, what's your point?

brain-dead

having absolutely nothing to do can be mind-blowing too. so much so until im brain-dead now. inactivity kills.

officially into my 3rd day of work. been to 4 meetings no less and ploughed through countless training materials. There's only 1 conclusion: i know nuts about my job scope still. and i feel dumb just sitting in my cubicle not understanding stuff and wasting my youth away.

the only good thing coming out of all these mundane shit is that i got to enjoy privacy within my cubicle. fine, i understand most of you have enjoyed such privilege (yes, i deem it as a privilege) ever since start of your working life. but, i've waited 2 1/2 years for this okie?!

updates on renovation
you guys will be seeing this alot now.
Status:
-placed deposit with contractor, air-con sub contractor, wardrobe company
yay! contractor is going to fix electrical points tomorrow and we are going to decide air-con location in the house on mon.

that's all for now!

updates (long overdue)!

im officially jobless now~! trying hard to enjoy my rest days before starting work (again!) next monday. getting the jitters with working in a totally new environment but being me, im sure i'll survive well!

okie, updates about my life!

1) gym workout at great world city (15th Mar)
was unable to upload pixs in my previous post. here they are~! me + my fantastic colleagues!

nelly closed her eyes again!

me n PP!

2) frances & my farewell party at sentosa (18th Mar)
my colleagues were so sweet to organise an outing to sentosa for our farewell party! we've great fun on that day despite a short-life downpour and beer spilling down my shorts. yay, my shorts reeked of beer for the rest of the night! arg!

group pix! thanks to the timer function of my camera!
we played volleyball and frisbee! i finally know how to throw a frisbee properly! the main focus for the outing is supposed to be the latin jazz at siloso beach. but half the time we were just having fun within our group. and seriously, i feel the singer was sprouting malay lyrics! oops, where have my jazzy bone gone to!?

frances & me!
i've tons of fun that day and i'm glad im leaving my firm with many many wonderful memories. thanks, peeps! for making the outing a successful one!

yay!

3) V for Vendetta (20th Mar)
caught this movie with my colleagues on my second last day in the firm.
it was a superd movie! i love V! i love his voice! i love his fanciful words and analogies! i love his guy fawke's mask!

this is like the 3rd nicest show i ever watched this year (after fearless & brokeback)! everyone pls go catch it!

4) my farewell (21st Mar)
im so sad,......after 2 1/2 years in my firm, im finally saying goodbye. i've found my best team this year but yet im leaving them so now. *sobz*
my assistants were so sweet! they came back to office to have lunch with me. they even bought a cute piggy cushion (ashley V!) and apple crumbler cake for me! i cried when i read their farewell letters and cards. so so sad. i dont wanna leave them! :(

my favourite team! i'll miss you guys tons!

me + the yummy cake!

me & ashley V! mummee took the pix for me!

5) chill out session with my hall mates! (22nd Mar)
it has been eons since i last met up with my hall mates! we've a nice dinner at pepper lunch (though that place stank!) and after that, we moved on for a little drinking session at Timbre. For those uninformed, Timbre is located at where Fat Frog used to be. EIC was playing the night and i love them! very very good sessions though i left after their second set.

tresa, me & fiona! tresa, i miss you too!

this is my curly-haired friend. pls refer to previous previous post!

to download pixs, pls go http://wenhui2.fotopic.net/c901652.html

6) Outing with usual gang at marina square (24th Mar)
met up with the gang tonight again..no full attendance but 6 out of 9 is good enough. dinner was at secret recipe and once again, i was tortured by the tom yum noodles! desserts were good, though! :)

we met at 7pm and left for home around 10 plus. thought time spent together was short, i've a great time nevertheless. we were counting our years together and the figure came up to like 12 years? scary, i havent feel that old yet.

me & zm!

fake candid shot!

to download pixs, pls go http://zhemin.fotopic.net/

7) updates on renovation
dear dear and me had made a trip down to balestier road this afternoon with our contractor to choose tiling for our house! we chose a nice shade of bach color for homogenous tiling for living & dining area! we also chose the slate tiles & pebbles wash for our foyer area.

tomorrow we'll be meeting up with our contractor to choose the color shade for the laminated wood for our bedrooms as well as sign the contract with a wardrobe company for the installation of the wardrobe in our master bedroom! hmm, seems like im gonna be busy with renovation stuff for the net 2 months at least.

hope everything will turn out fine and my house will be in ready to live-in by June! Yippee yay!

work-out

had a good work-out with colleagues at great world city planet fitness! now my whole body is aching! i dread tomorrow!! hope my body does not disintegrate itself in the middle of the night!

i've a fun time with them. i'm gonna miss them so much after i leave the firm. *sobz*
but life is like that, people move on constantly. sometimes it's you, sometimes others.

i love my colleagues!

music, memories and somemore.

warning! long entry ahead. pls avoid if you find swimming words a headache.

it's amazing how some songs managed to take me on a journey down memory lane. been listening non-stop to my MP3 player whenever i was on the go these 2 days. i know how some people associate pictures or even scents with past events, but songs do the trick for me. some songs are more precious to me because they accompanied me through certain phrases of my life. i've since stopped down-loading MP3 from the net ever since uni days (?), hence the songs in my MP3 are mostly old. okie, been listening to these few songs over the past 2 days and each has a story behind it, at least to me!

Enigma - Return To Innocence
i remember how i fell in love with the tune of this song while working part-time in a small bookstore at my neighburhood then. i was in sec 2. i bought the cassette with my first pay and found out the rest of the album sucks. lol~
i associated this song with alot of things. it was widely rumored then that enigma songs are satanic and it seems to be the case from the graphics in the lyrics page and lyrics content of other songs. whatever the case, the lyrics for this song strikes a chord in me.
"If you want, then start to laugh
If you must, then start to cry
Be yourself don't hide
Just believe in destiny.
Don't care what people say
Just follow your own way
Don't give up and use the chance
To return to innocence."

i love the part where he (yes, enigma is a male singer!) croons and croons at the end of the song. very haunting. i remember the time when me & my best friend then sang the same part at the top of our lungs at a playground at bedok interchange in the night. we were only 14. lol~ she was still my best friend now and im not even sure if she remembers that night. but i like that night. sometimes, enjoying a nice song with someone dear can be very satisfying. :)

i remember how in awe i was when i first saw the MV for this song. it was really innovative then as the scenes were all playing in reverse to match the theme of "return to innocence". but 10 year later, we see coldplay doing the same thing with "the scientist" MV. funny how trends repeat themselves. sometimes, i think innovation is dead. everything is just a product of creativity.

Goro Inagaki
okie, this is not a song but a singer. in fact, he's a member of SMAP, the ever popular boy band from Japan. i knew about him before SMAP the band which is a wonder given SMAP popularity. heck, i know him even before Kimura Takuya ( the other member of SMAP)!
In case, you've no inkling who-so-ever is Takuya, THIS is him!


and this is Goro Inagaki.

Goro

As you can see, he's not fantabulously handsome but he did managed to steal some hearts back in my Sec 3 days. it all started from this japanese serial "20岁的约束" i still remember a particular curly-hair of mine and me were very mad about him. we learnt that he's a singer too hence we went to the music store (was that music junction?! i cant believe music junction was already up and functioning 10 years ago?!) to look for his CD and realised then he belonged to this band - SMAP.

lol~ little did we know SMAP is like H-U-G-E in Japan and in years to come, very big in the rest of Asia too. we were like swooning over Goro and hecking care SMAP & Kimura Takuya! madness!

why the long chunk of entry above on SMAP? it's all due to a repeating SMAP DVD ad for their recent concert in Toyko. reminded me of Goro, my curly-hair friend and those days when i was in Sec 3 & 4. i realised i miss those years the most of all my schooling years. the most. my afternoons after school are spent without fail at bedok or tampines interchange.

buying 3-4 bags of Mac large fries and sharing with friends. time spent at arcade centres. watching movies at tamp GV & century square. :) phone calls that stretch to hours and late into the night. i've the greatest bunch of friends then. though we drifted apart now, which is really sad...:(, i'm really glad we had fun back then.

ever wonder why do people get very close together for a period of time and started drifting apart after sometimes? i wonder that alot. all relationships are the same, all need effort and time. sometimes, people just drift apart and there's really nothing much one can do except for the occasional nostalgia moments like now. :(
im getting sad and i dont like this. let's move on!

Shaggy: Angel
"Girl, you're my angel, you're my darling angel
Closer than my peeps you are to me, baby
Shorty, you're my angel, you're my darling angel
Girl, you're my friend when I'm in need, lady"

whenever i heard this song, i think of my uni days. for (1) , it was really popular back in my uni year 1 days and (2) a certain ex sang the chorus part into my voicemail back then. i always associated him with my early uni days. those wild days before i met my dear dear, heh.

those days represented everything that i dont wish to repeat. let's just say i did certain things i aint too proud of and i let some people and myself down at times. sigh. not saying im a saint now, but the frequency of screw-ups then is atrocious! :P
anyway, it was through this song that i learnt the meaning of "peeps"! yup, at the age of 19. ha.

Daftpunk: One more time
"One more time
Music's got me feeling so free
We gonna celebrate
Celebrate and dance are free"

i can tell you here, this song is a stroke of genius. aside those memories attached to this song for me, this song itself is marvelous. i'm sure that if i listen to it like 20 years down the road, it'll still get my booty shaking!

lotsa memories with this song. heard it in a damn crowded pub in downtown tokyo. love it at first hearing. bought the cd first thing when i touched down in singaore then. the song made me cry for almost a good 6 months everytime i heard it in a club.
remember most vividly those days back in hall when my hall mates and i will just crank up the volume in our room and dance like no tomorrow. yes, only to this song. to the point that we can mesmorise the lyrics (aint too difficult since this song has limited lyrics, ha).

i miss hall days. my hall mates are a great bunch. they still are today. but i feel that i've drifted apart from them as well. partly my fault and partly due to working life. its getting harder to meet and my time after work is so limited given that i've to spread it between my dear dear, family, colleagues & other friends. meeting up with hall friends is getting virtually impossible. once or twice a month is considered really good!

i miss the time where i can just trugged back to hall and sleep the afteroon away after lectures. i miss those late nights chatted away. i miss buying breadtalk from jurong point and gawd, i even miss taking 179. my days in the hall were perfect. well, near-perfect, other than my frivolous ways which spoilt some relations and created some tensions along the way. bleh, i rather not reminiscence too much here!

one thing with bad memories, how do you all deal with it. supress them or simply forget them? me, i chose to learn from them and shiver in their presence.... ;p

Lifehouse: Take me away
"take me away
take me away
I've got nothing left to say
just take me away "

was listening to this song while waiting for my bus home yesterday. had a really busy & lousy day at work yesterday. received a farewell card & 2 chocolates in my pigeon hole from a colleague who just left the firm last friday. inside my pigeon hole lies another farewell card from another colleague who left last month. sigh, as i popped one chocolate in my mouth, i turned around to look for my peers to lament how sucky it is to stay in the firm when everyone is leaving (which means we are being left behind!).

to my immense sadness, i saw no familiar face around. my only colleague who is closer to me was down at client's place yesterday so i was quite alone in my office in the metaphorical sense. in the end, all i can do was popped another chocolate in my mouth and continue working till it's time to knock off. how sad.

and this song is totally so applicable when i heard it in the evening. (not entirely applicable, just the chorus. the song in entirety is very much about a guy needing a girl, ha.) i just want to get away from my current job. its making me way too depressed for my liking.

so take me away.

p/s: Lifehouse lead singer's voice has the best soft rock quality to it. anyone who heard "hanging by a moment" by him will totally agree with me. and one can never guess he look like he belongs to a boy-band! dont believe me? see for yourself!


U2: Walk on
"Leave it behind
You've got to leave it behind
All that you fashion
All that you make
All that you build
All that you break
All that you measure
All that you steal
All this you can leave behind
All that you reason
All that you sense
All that you speak
All you dress up
All that you scheme..."

I love bono. cos he's a darn good song-writer. his voice is so full of soul & depth. he's an activitist for many worthy causes. and i love this song.

it made me bought their album (which has fabulous songs like walk on, beautiful day, elevation etc) in my uni 2nd year. i remember sitting at the cafe at jurong point interchange raving about the meaning of U2's lyrics to my dear dear (not my boyfriend yet then). i mistook his nonchalence as polite listening. man, was i wrong?! till today, dear dear still doesnt share the passion i have for songs, movies and other things alike. but for these areas where our mind have problems meeting, we do compliment each other in other areas. ha.

this song inspires me alot. i feel that no matter what difficulties or problems we face in our life, we are all equipped with the ability to walk on. so walk on we should. :)

it's been a disgustingly long entry! i'll be shocked if anyone can read through the whole thing. dont think thats possible. ha. i've to hit the sack!! its 12+ already!

im a spendthrift

yes, im a spendthrift. forget whatever i said in the previous post regarding financial woes. i spent tons of money this weekend!! let's see what i bought:

1) Derma-Rx toner $35 (i like the light cucumber scent)
2) Derma-Rx Comedone Formula $60 (great for whiteheads & blackheads! no kidding, it really works!)
3) Derma-Rx sunblock PA30+ $50 (though i don't really like the sticky texture, but it's my 2nd tube and it works for me, so stick to it, i will!)
4) Chanel moisturiser $102 (this is the killer. why is chanel products so expensive?! but i love its products!) been using this for the past 2 days and i love its texture! its gel-like and easily absorbed by my skin. it promised to boost blood circulation and provide hydration to the skin, bringing maximum radiance! :) let's hope it works!

all these skincare set me back around $250!! sigh, but a skincare set normally lasted 6-8 mths for me so i guess, its not too ex if you consider that you use them on a daily basis and they help in maintaining/improving my skin!!

went to the IT show at Suntec today with dear dear. the crowd is maddening over there. i've problem getting to suntec from citylink! sooooo many people!

again, we spent tons at the IT show. so we bought:
1) a MP3 player for me! considering the journey i need to travel to & fro my new workplace coming late march, i really feel i need some music on the go. I've always wanted a receiver since uni days but does anyone still go for a receiver nowadays? lol!
not willing to spend too much money and wanting only a simple MP3 player (512mb) which have FM functions and able to direct-charge from PC, i went around searching for the ideal one. big names like apple, creative & samsung alike is too expensive for moi!

in the end, i settled for an unknown brand ("epraizer" costing $129) who has what i need and within my budget! it came with an additional set of earphone from sennheiser! im happy with that! after subsidizing from ah long, i paid $100 for it. not exactly very cheap but wil do for me!

2) Philips Plasma TV 42"
yes, im not joking. we bought a plasma TV at the IT show. we had long decided that this model is the one for our new house. it was plain luck that we chanced upon this harvey norman promotion in the IT show that allows us to get it for a mere $3199 (original price:$3999!) and allow delivery to be done in mid-june (renovation for our house will only be completed near then)!
so we got this today!

of cos, we used good o'trusty citibank 0% installment plan (6 months plan). we are simply not cash-rich now. :P
i can't wait for this baby to be delivered and installed in my house by June! for those un-informed, im a tv junkie! i can sit in front of the tube for extended period!

3) philips cordless phone at only $49! this promotion is only available for those who bought plasma/LCD which are bigger than 37". i love all philips & panasonic cordless phones! they have the least static noise! the model im getting costs around $80 normally, so im really pleased with my buy. but the only problem is, im only getting the phone with the plasma in June. bleh.
in short, it has been an expensive weekend. i need to lie low with expenditure for the next 2 weeks at least. *pout*

i'm not in a good mood.
1) im having a runny nose and sore throat.
2) my voice is strained and raspy
3) im on MC today but im still doing work at home
4) my manager called me no less than 3 times today. wtf.

arg! i just want to recover soon!

my financial status is very bad. though im not in the red (almost impossible since today is only the 8th!) but im nearly there. and it doesn't help that march is gonna be a short month for me. i'm only serving till the 21st in my current company and starting in my new position late this month. i can foresee cash flow problem coming up! *help*

anyway, i've a fun saturday last weekend. me and the usual gang went waraku at marina square to celebrate gb's bday! though i was already sick then, i enjoyed myself regardless.

here are some pictures!

its full attendance! very rare!

me & the birthday boy!

me and mad D!

hey peeps, if you want to download photos, pls click on the link below:
http://zhemin.fotopic.net

p/s: i still feel bouts of depression at times. sigh, i really hope i'm able to overcome it, not contain it.

no luck? or no popularity?

been having not much luck with my popularity recently. no one responded much to my invitation to cambodia/HK in my last entry. i've to sms some of my friends to wring out an answer. and even so, only 3 out of 8 replied. 2 saying no. how sad.

and i invited my whole team to come to look for me for lunch today at another client's location. guess what? only 2 out of 11 replied!!!!!! what the...!? am i on my way to becoming the next daniel!!!??? NOOOOOOOOOOOOO.......! that shall not happen! *frantically assuring myself*

on another note, been having mini nightmares about moving on to a new workplace. not really nightmares like those you dream per se. but more like little psychological struggles within me. i kept having the temptation to take back my resignation letter! what is wrong with me? being unpopular and so undecisive. so decidingly NOT-me. *sigh* im afraid of change. :( though upset with my current work conditions, i've grown accustomed to it. i rather face the same shit than risk bigger shit.

hmm...i know the above attitude is wrong and one should always attempt to try new but moving on means committment for the next 2 years at least. completely different from like exploring new travel destinations. bah!

good news: i'm gonna have my first fitting come end march. *excited*