WOW! This word seldom comes out of my mouth. But Saturday, with darling, retail therapy is indeed the best form of stress reliever. If only I need not worry about my next credit card bill, how great will retail therapy be? After all, with all the worries, I need to think twice before footing the bill. And, the best thing is I have so many plans in my brains which require lots of money. For once, I am thinking if I should go back to giving tuition again. Anyway, I can teach well and it's really good money. *ponders* darling, what do u think? After my exams, can start liao hor? Haha.. then we can spend like nobody's business. Hee.

See how retail therapy has taken a toll on my wallet.

Ta da.....

Went out with this bag... The one which I said my colleague bought for me during my birthday. Yes, I chose it. White... seems so elegant, but turns black too easily!

First buy of the day: SONY ERICSSON W910i.... Super chio! Super light! Only one bad point, no flash for camera. But what darling says is right, why would you need a good camera if you bring a digital camera out all day long?! The little thumbdrive look alike thingy is the memory card reader. Chio right?! Hee thanks darling for getting me such a pretty fone! I simply love you more and more each day! Muacks.

Second buy of the day: From Taka, drove up to Centrepoint to get this. I m glad I drove there. Got a much better deal man! If I bought from Taka, I would only get the bottle of perfume. When I drove up to Centrepoint, for additional $5, this is what I have got:

I have got a bottle of 50ml perfume, a bottle of lotion (which I gave to my mum) and a little clutch bag (which I have decided to leave it in office, so that when I go out for lunch, I have a little bag to carry.)

I really love the Burberry Brit Sheer too. But darling is right, being the fickle minded me, I will just change my taste in time to come, that's why it is not a good idea to buy 2 bottles of perfume at a go. I will just grow tired of the fragrance. I need something new to spice up my life from time to time.

Then at Robinsons, bought my love a brand new wallet from Braun Buffel. His wallet cannot make it anymore. Seeing him like the wallet so much and considering I seldom get things for him (after all, men's stuff aint easy to get k?), I bought him the wallet. Eh darling, send me the photo so I can upload and show the whole world k?

Darling and I both got tired... Decided to head home. Nvtheless, very very nice day spent. Thanks Darling. We can't always have such days but once a month won't kill I guess. Hehe. But I think if once a month, we will kill all our big plans. K la, change to twice a month ba.

Oh and on a lighter note, darling gave me a surprise on anniversary. This is what he bought me:

Something from Coffee Bean...

Cheese Cake! Thanks darling. I just want to let u noe that a small gift like this makes me feel like the most fortunate woman on Earth. Thanks for all these little surprises! I hope I am able to do such surprises for u too. But somehow I just don't know how. I will learn, I promise.

-=leaving on a sad note cos W is leaving=-

Typing this entry from Delifrance (Takashimaya). First time doing a blog entry outside of my cosy room. Call me mountain turtle but I am feeling happy and excited to be doing this.

Best thing is Singnet Wireless is free!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! For 3 years at least. So surf all I want at zero cost. Ask me what I am surfing for... Surfing for handphone, looking for a phone for my mum. She has been doing without a phone for 6mths. And time and again, I wanted to get her one but she's too fussy. Want nice but don't want function (cos she don't know how to use the functions) and best still as cheap as $0. Where to find such a phone?! Oh and one more criteria, must be a flip phone! KAoz. I am racking my brains at the moment. Haha...

Alright, before my darling gets too bored. Bye bye~

Supposed to go cycling at ECP last Sun, however, due to a very stiff shoulder, neck and back, i had to turn my pretty friends down. It wasn't intentional my dear gals. Anyway qiqi couldn't join us as she was busy with her school work.

However, we did meet up at night for a singing session and really a super high singing session. Had so much fun, singing, shouting and screaming. Really great form of stress reliever. Hee.. Did not take many photos but these few will do...

The two who were there... Pei Pei and Jiaying... A pity Qiqi couldn't join us. Well, I will organise one soon!

My dearest screaming at her top of her voice. Haha... Super high, we chose all the songs that could enable us to scream man! More of such sessions in future please..... :)

Now, on the last note of my birthday celebration, it would be on my birthday gifts...

This is from my dearest Nina...


This bracelet is from my mummy and daddy, with 12 diamond studs. Thanks mummy and daddy, after so many years of zero pressies from the two of u, I am happie to receive this!

This wallet from my colleague, Carolyn.

My colleague, Huay Sien, also bought me a white bag which I chose, however, I am too lazy to take a photo of it. In future, when I bring out, I will take a photo and post it here.

My darling!? What did he buy? Aiya I am waiting for something to buy, will redeem his voucher. Wahaha~ Darling, on standby huh, your wallet and money!!!!!!!!!

On a final note, thanks everyone for the splendid birthday celebration you gave me. Thanks a lot. I love you all!!!!

Saturday 13th October 2007

Had steamboat with my family, darling, cheryl and pinting. Was supposed to go out before steamboat with darling to buy my birthday gift. However, as his legs weren't feeling too well, we stayed at home instead. I had a great sleep in the afternoon.

Was too busy eating that I had forgotten to take photos of the steamboat dinner. Anyway, everything was splendid except that my dad forgot the scallops!

Thanks mummy and daddy for this pleasant surprise - Breadtalk cake. Each year, I have to remind people to buy cake for me. This yr, finally my mum told me in the morning not to buy cake, cos' she had already ordered one. I was elated!!!!! This is the first time in don't know how many years man, that she actually remembered to get me one on her own without me reminding her. Anyway, if you ask does it really matter? It does. Cos' my family has this tradition of having a dinner (whether on the actual day or not) as well as a cake on the actual day. I am always the one buying cakes for the rest of my family and thus, on my birthday, they tend to forget about it. Thus, this year is really memorable. Thanks mummy and daddy!!!

Mummy and me, both in our pyjamas. Anway, the rest of the family members were half asleep so we did not have any family photos taken.

Mummy was trying to act cute. Mummy what are you doing????!!!!

Making my another 3 wishes. Greedy me!

Part 2 of the celebration was on 12 Oct 07 (Fri) @ MP 36th storey BBQ Pit.

Early the morning, woke up feeling all refreshed and all ready to party tonight!

Actually couldn't much sleep soundly, was afraid to forget to bring this and that for tonight's BBQ. Anyway, all ready to set out for half a day's work and then to party!

Met Jiaying and Qiqi for lunch at TBP. Finally had my ayam panggang after craving for it for so long. Hehe. Then went to NTUC to do some shopping and went to wait for the BBQ food to arrive. In NTUC, the auntie side of us came up. We finally saw how auntie each other was. Waluaz imagine in a few more years, we will be like pregnant, then walking around the supermarket, pointing and saying "eh, this is what my hubby like to eat. eh! this is good for health cos low cholestrol etc." Oh well, back to the topic. Upon the food's arrival, it rained. OMG! could not believe it. And I kept blaming Jiaying cos' she she did not want me to pay for the food. And because my mum always say that if you are stingy, on the day of your birthday, it will rained. Thus, I put the blame on Jiaying for not allowing me to pay. Haha, the moment she accepted my money, the rained seemed to be smaller. Then, it stopped hehe. So went to buy a piece of cloth to dry up the place, esp. the chairs and tables and we got to start the fire going!

Presenting to you my hottest fire starter. She's real damn good! For hire at $100 per hour. You get me as well as her! Wahaha. She can be the fire starter, I can be the chef eh!

As the skies get darker, the BBQ-ing has just started. The hot favourite of the night was the SAMBAL PRAWNS. Oh My! I still miss it now! When can we have our next BBQ?

See this is what I meant by if you pay us $100 an hour, you get both her and me. We both can cook (oops! actually BBQ)!

The group photo for the night. Present was Qiqi (mattress gal), me (mattress gal), Hen Hen (Director), Small bro (Lightsman), Pinting (Audience), Cheryl (Audience), Big Bro (Camera man), Jiaying and Peipei (lead actress), Jun hong (lead actor), darling (script writer). I guess I shouldn't write out the story here, but it was really a great luff! Thanks everyone for making it so splendid!

Small bro and me.

Big bro, small bro and I

Finally, darling and I. Thanks darling for sponsoring the cake!

The happy birthday gal!

Thanks everyone once again for making this one such a memorable one! muacks~

I am already in the birthday mood, however, I still need to check the most important report of the division. OMG! How can I put my mind to it? It's a great real deal of struggle. Anyway, tomorrow's coming! And I am on half day leave! Yippie!

This post is titled Birthday Wishes, because I just want to say that I have so many birthday wishes to make. I made 2 during Birthday Celebration 1 - see I am not so greedy after all. But I suddenly had so many more to make. Can I make 3 different wishes with each cake's candles I have blown i.e. if I have 3 cakes, I am entitled to 9 different wishes?! Haha, see the greedy me! Well, but how many will come true? I must fight for what I want. I guess the government's right in that with more education, women are getting married later and having babies later. I totally agree. I have so much career plans in my head. On the other hand, I have marriage plans and plan B - Baby plan. How do I get them all to come true just so beautifully. Marriage plan and Baby plan is simple, it only requires 2 hands to clap. Hee. You know what I am talking about, it just between the husband-to-be and the wife-to-be. However, career and education plans is draining all my energy out.

Here, it always the piece of paper that matters so much. So much so that I still believe in working hard for a postgraduate certification. I believe this will greatly help in my career advancement. Only my mummy and my hubby-to-be understand that I cannot possibly slow down. It is just not me to sit and relax and watch. I want to be promoted, I want to be the best, I want to be praised, I want to be in the limelight, I want to know as much of my work inside out. However, such attitude could cause me to be a pain in the neck to all my other colleagues. And you never really know how exactly your bosses feel about you? You may have tot that you worked so hard, produced such good work, get praised at times (otherwise praises won't be that fantastic if they were always given) and boss actually notices that. However, they may not have seen the real picture if your colleagues were to add some condiments on your appraisal. I guess this is a fact in life. If you try to overtake and outperform your colleague who has been there for donkey ages, chances are they will slow you down in your promotion process. Oh well, you can see from here how much I desire a promotion. Anyway, it is not much of a difference if they could just increase my wage and bonus. I guess that will do the trick in keeping me with them. Otherwise, with the market so hot, there's always a better one out there!

Hee... so my birthday wishes. 9 should be more than enough. I am going to be one year older. Tada~ Till my next exciting post with Birthday Celebration - Part 2.

Why can no one cater to what I want? Is it really so difficult to have an event you have dreamed off? Well, how do I get the best of each? How do I put everything together such that it will turned out like a dream with everyone enjoying themselves and they would feel it's the event of the year? It sometimes is nerve recking, this is why I refuse to rush things. Well, but at least, I do know what I want. Now, it is all about getting where I want to get. A good start off point already!

Recently, been very busy with work. Birthday's coming, still haven't got into the mood to enjoy. Because I was made to co-head the Programs and PR section of our DND 2007. It is really going to be so challenging as the whole night's success or failure is dependent on the night's events, which I am made to co-head. I must say it is a lifetime experience, I really enjoy this man! Every Wed's meeting is the most enjoyable. I always look forward to it. Sometimes to the extent that I start to wonder if my job suits me? Should I switch to a events marketing job?

And last but not least, Friday's coming! I am so looking forward to Fri, Sat and Sun! Yummy weekends coming! Oh and I really enjoy my Gong Zhu Xiao Mei (Romantic Princess) featuring Angela Zhang and Wu Zun! Why can't the episodes come out faster?! Argh...

Today's my birthday celebration Part 1 - in the Office:

Each month, we will get a birthday cake for the birthday gal, as well as go out for lunch together without the birthday gal paying of course! This month's my turn! Remembered last yr we had our birthday lunch at Fish & Co. This year, we have decided on Swensens. :P Yummy!!! I now love Swensens ever since they had more items added to their menu. Hmmm... thinking of it now just makes me drool. Anyway, back to the main topic. Bought Oreo Cheesecake from Secret Recipe. Quite nice but too sweet, not cheesy enough, thus, a little disappointing. Anyway, here's our birthday cake with very lousy handwriting haha.

You almost can't figure out the word : BIRTHDAY.

Presenting the birthday gals:

This year there is a new addition to October babies - Wendy (who just joined us in Sep 07) Left to right: Wendy, Candy, Me!!!

The birthday gals with the birthday cake. Well, Candy was trying very hard to squeeze her boobs to show her cleavage! Muahaha. And she warned me about showing mine cos' she'll lose out. Tadah! I wore a jacket so when I bent down, you all cant see my cleavage. So let Candy show hers! Really had a great laugh when she said that. By the way, Wendy is still single. Any takers? She's really a sweet gal~

Making our birthday wishes. Noticed how the three of us had different ways of making dishes. Wendy looks as tho she's praying to Jesus. Candy looks as tho she is praying to Guan Yin Ma. And me, I am really making my birthday wish. Muahaha

Lastly, cake cutting! So looking forward to all the other birthday celebrations that are coming up!

But birthday pressies?! Haha. I have a few birthday celebrations planned ahead, but no birthday pressies huh? Nvm la. Should just treasure and cherish what's given to me: my wonderful birthday celebrations!

-=till the next=-