So heavy & tired

Today i work fr hm. But in the afternoon, went to suntec for a corporate gift/stationary exhibition. My boss asked me to go. So went and collected tonnes of brochures. So heavy and drained. Also feel so bad as i don't hv namecard, need to lie say finish or forget to bring. Didn't know this is more of a trade exhibition.

Thereaft, when to carrefour to buy unagi and miso paste for quick fix dinner. Hmm nice. Oh ya, there are really more & more china pple (esp ladies) wkg in S'pore. Everywhere i go, i will bump into one. Even now carrefour employs China staff. Personally, i don't quite like china pple. Mainly becos their srvc standard really very bad. Or shld i say no service at all. They very "anynow". I bought the unagi and the lady anyhow pack till the sauce spill out. She packed it straight up! Frankly, this is not my 1st encounter. Somehow they are very not gracious, very "chor law" and they hv a very bad attitude. Its their culture. Everyone is like that. Funny.

Oh ya, exhibition halls and carrefour are so far apart. Walk and walk. My legs almost gave way and need to walk to city hall some more ;(

Lastly, this is hopefully the last time i'll wk fr hm. I don't really like wkg fr hm as i dread hvg to carry the super heavy stone age laptop to & fro hm, esp more painful when wearing heels. I prefer to wk in office hee. Moreover, if i finish wk early, i can knock off early. At hm, you sort of wary of wkg hrs. How to shut time laptop when still be4 5.30pm hee ;p

Sleep, sleep & sleep

So fast is end of Tue soon. Today no work. Basically is sleeping most of the time. Esp aft lunch so so tired, dozed off unknowingly. Toby woke me up as he was rather bored with sleeping hee. Comparatively, this week i am adjusting better. Not as tired as last week.

Work at office is rather relaxing so far. Hope it'll continue. Tomorrow will be working fr hm as my boss needs to bring her mil to doc. Good, can spend time with toby. Oh ya, this weekend is going to Bintan for a short break. Just 2 days, 1 night, together with my pil and my bil. Dear dear will go there 1st for team building as he is the organiser and we'll meet him on Sat. Luckily is just a 45mins journey, can't imagine hvg to strike constant conversation w my pil.

Hmm I really wish i can hv time alone with dear dear over there. In s'pore, he is always busy w wk. Sometimes, i do feel that my mil is a bit intruding. She likes to tag along where ever we go or mention. And along with her, will be my fil, bil and sometimes relatives. Deep in my heart, i really struggle with this at times. Am i possessive? I know not but i really afraid to tell them abt any of our travelling plans. Yet we can't.

Finally its fri

Ya really thkful that today is the end of the working week. Am so so tired. Somehow just so drained physically. The headache has always been there but thkfully not severe. Guess my body is still adjusting to wkg hours and still the super cold aircon. Tried to adjust the temperature, but still as cold.

The other thing is adjusting to sleep. Somehow cldn't sleep well for the past few days. The mind is active but the body super exhausted. Every time by 6pm i wld be dead zombie walking ard. Really hope that my body and mind can adjust soon. The work for the past 2 days ain't much but my body is still adjusting, hee staying awake the whole day. So i kind of cannot tanah and took medicine to help me to sleep. Hmm know its no gd but will cut it off once my body adjust to wkg hrs. Meanwhile, i tried to boil red dates & guo qi zhi drink whenever possible to keep my body and do yoga when i hv the stamina. But also need to be moderate as too much of it can be too heaty for my body constitute.

Today basically to very light chores and sleep!!! Really no joke for wkg women, esp wkg mom really dunno how they find the energy. Salute to them! Guess again its me and my not so gd body :(

Overall is a pleasant experience, to be with the crowd and watching them hee ;)

Today no work

Hee now i am at home recuperating ;p Yest was tiring for me. Guess becos of the super cold aircon (17 degrees) as well as using too much of the brain in a go ha ha. Long time never use it already. My boss kept assuring me that yesterday's busyness is out of the blue. It hasn't been like that for 6 mths. Oh no juz my luck or what? And dear dear joked that becos God knows you can handle more. Ya right ;p

I had slight headache yest, guess becos of adjusting to work again. Oh ya, when i started my laptop, suddenly didn't know how to start MS outlook!!! Ha ha luckily later recall one by one. Busy at wk yest, few things to follow up as well as learning some sys to update some things. Still can't figure. Will continue tomorrow.

Oh ya did i mention that i wk part time, that is i only wk on Mon, Wed & Thu hee. And i am surprised to know that i am being paid for phone bills as well got 1.5 days leave and can claim medical. Just shocked to see these benefits given that i am only needed for 1.5mths!

Overall, my prayer is that i am able to adjust back to wk life. Can overcome the astonishmt of wk loads. Guess wk at Singtel really left behind a heavy impact. A great price to pay. Trust that God will bring me thru.

So today i'll cook at hm. Dear dear misses hm cooked fd so am I. Yest we went to compasspt to eat and dear dear bought a payaya for me to eat for vits. And he peeled it!!! Normally i will do but yest he saw me so drained, he offered to be Aminah ha ha but really sweet gesture ;) And we really MISS toby. I tried my best to hurry hm to see my boy and hug him. Daddy also miss toby! But my boy threw tyrant, he pee outside the shower area and bite his bed! Hee but ok for me as all other things are well ;) He just played with his own stuff. Oh no we r crazy parents.

Then & Now

Hee when your hubby is watching the ball rolling, what shld the other partner do?? Hmm...

Time really flies and when age catches up, face starts to show the journey one had been thru. Below are the faces of me then and now. So sad to see how i aged but guess its part of growing up. As one gains wisdom, one loses youth. Wow i am wiser now...ha ha am i ;p

That's the gd thing of hvg camera ph hee. Why don't they introduce it earlier leh? Hee also not too late la. Smthg to show my kids in future ha ha.

Faces of me
Me when i 1st met the TP gang..hmm..5 yrs back?? Hannah still a small girl then. We were at chenjun's place on the swing ;)

Me and the girls at Nigel's wedding, that was 3 yrs back?













2005
Mar 2005 - Me, the passport photo. Dunno what has got into me to use this for my passport!!!

Me at uni friend's wedding in 2005


2006
Hee i was taking my resume photo on my birthday in 2006

2007
And me in 2007 - Oh no........

Feb 2007 - After my new haircut & rebonding

May 2007 - One particular day


Aug 2007 - Aft shopping at Taka hee

Pre Work Preparation

Oh no tomorrow start wk!!! Just reached hm aft hvg dinner at my in law's place. Today ah-ma is here for dinner too. Just finish packing my bag and knowing what to wear tomorrow. Oh no office clothes again, something i dread to wear. Ha ha can ask my boss whether i can wear casual since i am a temp hee. Tomorrow start wk at 9am as no office key but subsequently 8.30am. Oh no dunno if can wake up so early and not become a zombie during middle of the day.

Now, normally i wake up at 7.15am to prepare breakfast for dear dear. With wk, i need to wake up even earlier, say 6.45am so that i can leave hm at 7.30am. Oh no!!! But most imptly, cross my fingers that i can adjust well to wk life and also dun hv loads of wk to do hee ;)

Oh ya, morning while on the way to AMK hub, took pics in the car.

The silly man didn't know he is supposed to look at the lens but look at the mirror instead. So he is looking side way.

When i took again, he tried to be funny and look the other way!!

Finally, got a correct shot!

Hmm Starting Wk

Ya i am starting wk nxt Mon. Wow so fast. My ex-boss called to say her staff went on maternity. Hmm a bit jittery :( as hv been 1 yr since i last work and i know i can't handle stress as i used to. But as dear dear said i need to overcome the fear so praying hard. Yet again, i don't need to wk everyday just 3 days a week. So its a gd start. Ok will update this when things start rolling. Fingers cross.

Now while i am updating blog dear dear is watching his soccer ;( He said its the start of English premier league. Whatever, don't bother me or attract me hee. Before this we'll at town, window shopping and hvg dinner at food republic. The hokkien mee no longer tastes nice. So sad, when more pple eat, standard just seems to drop. This time rd we went to ck tang and isetan. Hvn't been to ck tang for quite awhile but overall still the same. Not much change, except if i am right, the food section in b1 is stand alone now not connected to the bedding/kitchenware section as it used to be. Hmm hope i am right??

Oh ya, didn't go to Ruth's baby bash as dear dear finds it strange to attend as we were not invited for the 1st kid and we ain't close to Nigel & christina. So as head of hsehold, he'll make the call, i follow.

So we just doll ourselves in late afternoon and went to town to explore the less visited areas of town hee.

National Day - A Trip to the Nature

To celebrate National Day, we went to Botanical Garden with dear dear's family. Its so so crowded. S'poreans really hv no place to chill out to relax. The revamped Botanical Gdn is more resort and modern looking. I guess the main change is the undergrd food court! The rest is just touchups.

We saw a lot of pple walking the dogs. How i wish Toby was there too! But cannot as the plan is to makan together. We saw a lot of tourists and pple doing line dance in park! Personally i feel the line dance thingy is a disrupt of peace in the park lo. But guess these folks hv no place to go. How many open space we hv in s'pore?

Oh ya during breakfast together, my mil brought up the topic again. That's to go Japan together. Hmm so sad, guess if we are going, they wld hv to come along. But now just concentrate on praying that dear dear will get his desire post.

We went to the orchid garden and they increased the entry fee from $2 to $5! I thought its quite expensive. Anyway its a refleshing experience as they hv a cool hse where plants and tree grow in cooler climate.

We took plenty of pics. Just use my camera ph to snap snap (and i lost my sock-like pouch! Snap, snap and dunno where it went?? Luckily its only $1). Early part of the day was gd weather as no sun but later towards the end the sun rays came and i went hiding into the shades ha ha.

Overall was fun but tiring so went back hm took shower and had an afternoon nap. In the later aft, went back to my pil's place for dinner as well as to watch the ndp. Somehow didn't really like this year parade. Just feel its still the same despite the change of location. Somehow the formation is always the same - square, circle and triangle. No breakthru in the chronography.

Baby brandon was a bit grunchy yest. Hee and it seems like he didn't like me to carry him, guess he can recognise pple by now ;p

That's all for yest but it seems like yest was a long long day. Guess becos we woke up very early.

Highlights of the Trip

Remember the swan lake. Only left with 2 swans and 4 fake ones!!!

New waterfalls ard the garden. I like to listen to water fall. Very soothing and cooling!

The women gang!

The silly man and his obscene act

The new pond at the entrance and dear dear's foot! (Aiyo you ah)

Hee us! (Hee i look so pale ha ha, no mu plus no enough sleep! Hee i am a pig :o)

Me in the cool house! Wow i look slim fr afar. Ha ha shld take more far pics!

Me with the orchids! Just like God says, we can never beat the glory of His flowers. They so so nice.

Us, infront of a super big tree. The trunk is huge!

Dear dear playing with Brandon. Performing his stroller stun and i was surprised that Brandon luv it. Giggling away.

Baby brandon ;)

Orchids and more orchids. Orchids really hv an unique character and beauty.

The big big tree trunk!

Dear dear will be back

Hee just rec'd sms fr dear dear that he'll be hm early today. Today's makan session is cancelled/postponed. Hee am i happy or wat ;)

Hmm smells nice

Yeah tomorrow holiday!!! So happy!!

Yesterday we went back to my parents' place for dinner. Yummy! Brought back braised pork so that lunch hee no need to cook. Nowadays my parents are lonely as my nephew now stays with my sil while they try to settle the issue. Feel so bad. And that's the reason why my mum calls me very often, guess she is bored. Need someone to chit chat. Hee i m ok, just give an "open" ears. She just called to complain that the neighbour upstairs drip water down. I mean thru the floors! Guess the reno has damaged the floor? New neighbour will be shifting in, now undergoing reno.

Oh ya tonight dear dear will be home late as he has durian feast with his colleagues. His colleagues are giving him a treat as earlier on he gave them a treat at wala wala. Hmm so shiok. So to compensate his "missing", dear dear bought durians for us (hee toby got to lick a little, opps). We went to the usual stall at hougang to buy. This time round the durians are smaller, they said fr diff place. The 1st one is sweet i like, the rest i bit bitter sweet which i don't really fancy but okie hee. Hmm durian really taste very nice but very full and bloated today ha ha. Will do stomach excercise later hee. Sinful la. Still got leftover in the fridge, will eat them in the night while waiting dear dear to be hm.

Hmm today need to do hse cleaning as tomorrow holiday. Ya tomorrow where shld we go lei? Or just rest at hm? Oh ya his sister suggested to go Botanical garden tomorrow. She said can bring toby along. Over there, allows dog. Yeah. Mm but how abt lunch le? Bring toby hm then join them for lunch? Mm need to think abt logistics. How i wish the whole S'pore is dog friendly! But guess in my dreams only.

Weekend Happenings

Its Mon again but happy as this week is a short week! Also becos dear dear is on ext training these 2 days so he gets to come home really early. Today he came hm at 5.30pm!!! Wow once in a lifetime man ;) Hee thereaft he busy visiting the punggol forum while i finish my ironing and toilet cleaning ;) Really so so nice to see him hm so early when the sun is still shining. At ard 7plus we headed to my eye specialist for a follow up check up on my infected eye. All cleared! Hooray!


Last weekend is sort of packed with activities hee. I planned one and dear dear gladly followed hee. Oh but lets start with Fri 1st. He's a bit late as he needed to finish up his report. So we headed to nearby punggol park for dinner as hungry hee. I had lamb shank. Hmm not nice. Don't order. Sauce is not nice and the meat i felt overcooked. As usual, dear dear wld say that i m adventurous w food hee. But me being me, i like to try new things. Moreover, lamb shank is smthg that i wld never cook at hm as it takes 5-6 hrs to cook!


Thereaft, dear dear brought me to esplanade for a walk. Tried to take pic but pic quality no gd. Guess camera ph has yet to be able capture night scene. Its so rowdy there. Its crowded with teenagers, as if there is some sort of event. We walked ard, over looking fullerton and the marina bay. Its really nice landscape! Hee we went into the Esplanade and sat down observing the youngsters and their dressing & behavior. Really a diff generation. The guys wore so tight jeans. All wanna to be paul twohill hee. Suddenly realise that we are old already. We can never go back to the younger days. Our complexion and dressing are so diff fr them. We hv indeed walked a long way. Hmm how shld i put in, juz glad that God has put me there, saw that alot of things are temporal and we need to focus on things that are eternal. Frankly, i was thkful to be at Esplanade. Somehow like the eyes suddenly "opened".


On Sat, dear dear needed to back off for a while but it was a fast one. So when he came hm we headed to Taka for shopping. Window shopping for wedding band hee. See, see, look, look. Wow got toy fair at the Taka plaza! At an instance thought of Hannah & Mercia hee. At late aft, headed for hm. Be4 that we bought brownies and beard pa pa!!! Mmm really very very nice!! Hmm but aft taking the brownies i felt uncomfortable for awhile. Maybe due to the caffeine in it? But an hour or so ok.



At night, we went to chong chong for supper. So long never been there! Really miss the hawker there. Oh ya, was joking w dear dear maybe the sugarcane girl doesn't like him becos everytime he orders fr her, she forgets. And we also feel her so unhappy, whenever she delivers the sugarcane, her face is so long (not only to us). Guess she must be super tired fr carrying the super heavy glasses (she carries 4-5 big glasses at a time, wow so muscular!). Hee middle of the night, we brought toby down for walk as we were full and toby yet to hv his walk. A weird pair of parents indeed. Like dear dear said, toby must be thinking "Why daddy & mummy likes to bring me down when everything is dark dark???" Ha ha


Dear dear being super guilty of what he ate last night and the nights be4, decided to jog on Sun. And he did! And super long, 8km! Luckily, i didn't join (becos of the sun. He started at 9 plus. If 7plus i might join him). Instead, i did my usual yoga at hm. Wait, & wait he's not back, gave him a call to make sure he's ok hee.


Alamak i was excited abt the Ndy funfare downstairs but by the time we went down its nearly over. Hee its only for the morning. We'll there at noon so nothing to see except for the last dance perf by some sch girls. Boring and we walked off.


As usual, went back to my pil's place. Brandon has grew so much or is it my eyes!? He is longer now. Hee i tried to talk to him but he seems not to like me. Maybe he hardly sees me. Most of the times i see him, he is sleeping or awake only a while. Oh ya, i bottle fed him. So nice feeling! And he sat on my lap ;) Really very shiok hee. (The lady carrying Brandon in e pic is the maid, Lucy. She is realli gd with babies!)


At night we went to the fish soup place. This time rd we went to the branch at rangoon. Not as crowded. But my fil was complaining it was more exp there. Hee but the plus pts, the girls there were younger. Seems like all the girlfriends and daughters are helping out at the branch?! All put on full make up to work. Wow really cannot imagine how they can tanah.


Hee guess that's all for the weekend. Packed but really enjoyable, given that i stayed at hm during weekdays.

Simple Day

Hee today is a simple day for me. Basically resting at hm, surfing tv and net. Oh ya, now join in Punggol forum. Hee quite fun, can see all sorts of complaints and stay at hm mums talking abt babies etc. Hee basically a human version of doggie site. Talking abt that long time no go there alreadi ;p.

Ya how i get to know abt this site lei. They drop flyers in the letterbox. So bo liao, dear dear & I went in to check it out. And me also super bo liao, join in the chit chat session hee ;) becos some of the experiences i also hv with our punggol neighbour. So throw in my few cents worth ha ha :)

Oh ya talking abt that, hee was sharing with dear dear maybe we shld join in the fun on Sun. This sun, there is a nat day carnival at punggol, hee just at the basketball court at our area. We can go see see look look. Go funfare and buy candy floss hee...Juz my silly thous la

Growing Up with Toby

Daddy has uploaded toby photos into kodak gallery. So nice to see how toby has grown these years. Really regretted not taking enough photos during his baby stage. Below is the link for your viewing pleasure. Thks dear dear, you are always so thoughtful.

Our boy:

http://www.kodakgallery.com/ShareLandingSignin.jsp?Uc=b6c27ysu.3o3iqnzi&Uy=4pehg8&Upost_signin=Slideshow.jsp%3Fmode%3Dfromshare&Ux=0

Ya talking abt toby. He is "complaining" every now and then ever since Divo came. He really wants to play with Divo but Divo doesn't really seems to be interested in him. So my poor boy kept looking out at the door and running onto my lap telling me that he wants to see Divo. Feel so bad. He is still sighing now. I always feel that Toby thinks he is a human, he always "talk" to me when he feels upset or neglected.

Below are the pics of him looking out for Divo.

And here are pics of toby sitting on daddy's office chair. I was sitting on it, updating my blog and toby wanna squeeze in with me. He like little boy wanting to climb upto the chair ;)

Oh ya below are snapshots of Hannah & Mercia while we wait for dear dear to buy KFC. Hee they so sweet.

Toby's New Friend

Yesterday Toby met his new friend cum neighbour, Divo (hee we called toby Tibo, sounds alike ;) Toby was so so excited that he kept going to the door to check out Divo. On the hand, Divo seems a bit shy, guess he is still adjusting to the new environment. Moreover, understand fr my neighbour Toby is maybe the 2nd or 3rd dog he met since they bought him. Oh ya, Divo is shaved bald. So cute. He is really heavy but so so chubby lo. He is better with humans. He came up to me to sniff me. So sweet.

Our Mr Toby was really so excited over the new friend that for the whole night he ran to & fro to the main door. We opened our door, so whenever he heard the bell on Divo ringing he'll dashed to the door. Guess it'll also take a while for toby to settle down. He loves the fellowship of other dogs. He really like a little kid who likes the company of other kids than mummy hee.

One of these days shld take a pic of Divo and put on blog.

As for myself, just resting and doing hsehld chores at hm as usual while recuperating fr the infected eye as well as headache. The yellow discharge is so eeee. Like mucus following out of the eye. And i am so surprised that dear dear doen't find it disgusting. Got to realise that when he was young he hurted his eye with a burning matchstick. And the same thing happened to him, the yellow discharge. The difference, he didn't see a doc!! Really thank God that he is not blind. He himself also find it a miracle. Me too! My man really super playful when he was young ;) Ai yo.

And also getting used to my sort of new hairstyle. My hairstylist (oh ya did i share she is called pamela too hee) cut more layers this time for a change, so the sides will fall off and also the front when i tried to tie up lo. Oh ya becos of the layering, my natural curl starts to come back hee. But still ok. One thing, not much entangling when combing hair, hurray!! And certainly lesser hair fall!! Good ;) Hee i hv been monitoring my hairfall hee ;p

Ah what else le. Overall for me, life as usual la ;) I listen to the CD that Pam gave. It was ministering. Help me to reflect on God's love and also to realise how insecure i am as a person despite i am in Christ. This is an area which i hv been struggling in my life and God makes it resurface again recently to show me that i hv yet to conquer it (or shld i say vulnerable spot for devil to devour on me), not by my own efforts but the blood of Jesus. God pls grant me the discipline and strength to work on this issue ;p

Oh ya, tonight thinking of cooking salmon since yesterday we had beef & chicken. Ok that's all for a hsewife today. Oh ya, pls help me pray for the headache to go away ok. Headache, headache go away, never come again any day ha ha ha....