Wish List

My number 1 birthday wish for this year would be for kh to be able to come back in time to celebrate this day with me… but I know this can only be a wish that will never be fulfilled.

I want a lot of things that money can’t buy… but I also want a lot of things that only a lot of money can buy.

So it's pointless to list my wish list here.

Jase turns 2

It has been 7 months since I last saw Jase Jase. He is growing more and more handsome as he gets bigger.

20th May 2004 was the day he brought so much joy to my dear Cynthia and I hope he’ll continue bringing joy to this very emotionally and physically strong mummy. I admire you a lot for all your strength, determination and independence. =)

Highlights of the party…

That was the FIRST TIME I attended a party whereby my only friend was the host. I didn’t know how to exercise the proper decorum and didn’t what I could do. Cyn was always busy attending to her babies and every guest. I could not be playing with my godson the whole evening as he was the birthday boy and so, was constantly surrounded by different people. Moreover, this lucky boy has 3 [fairy]godmothers… Heh… My camera came in handy and I soon busied myself snapping photos.

Decorations


JaseJase eating.


Trying to feed himself but ended up playing with his food.


His little sister, Charmaine, who will turn 1 in July. She looked so different from the last time I saw her.


Cyn mummy and her kids.


Charmaine enjoying herself on the scooter.


With the cakes...


Jase attempting to blow the candles.


Charmaine's turn.


Me trying to take a picture with pouting Jase who was very tired and sleepy after the whole evening of activities.


When we cleared up the area, somebody cut the strings of the balloons and the kids started playing with them happily. It was difficult to get a decent clear shot of the kids in action as they were always on the move.

Jase was sooooo amused by the balloons.


Jase and Skyla, his gf (girlfriend cum good friend) I dunno why he looks so pissed here.


Surrounded by balloons.


I love this photo of Jase very much!


Both mummies and JaseJase.



Me and Jase.


Back at cyn’s home, we caught up with each other and the kids kept “disturbing” us with their cute antics and fighting for mummy’s attention.

We had a screaming competition. When one kid went “AHHHHHHHH…..”, the other would follow suit. The two bo liao mummies will then join in their screaming competition.

Jase “AHH-ing” to the camera for a looooong time.


And the competition starts…


The video started running just when Jase Jase stopped ahhh-ing so he was the ultimate loser. First prize went to Charmaine.

Hmm… it seems like I have a goddaughter now coz Cynthia didn’t know how Charmaine should address me and she kept telling her “kor kor’s godma”. Hence, to save her the trouble, I said she could call me godma too. =)

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I've changed the song on my blog coz some people dunno that you can either switch off your speakers or click the "stop" button and got so sick of the previous song. =P

The new song on my blog is dedicated to raine who got ROM-ed yesterday (CONGRATULATIONS!) and to anybody who is getting married soon =)

Window shopping

“"Window shopping" is an American/English phrase meaning to look into glass windows of a shop for entertainment and imagine purchasing items without actually purchasing, possibly just to pass the time between other activities, or planning a purchase.” - Wikipedia

This whole month, I did a lot of window shopping. I went e-window shopping that is. It was “looking into glass [browser] windows” of my monitor. It was “for entertainment” but it was anything but “imagin[ing] purchasing items without actually purchasing”.

My e-loot…

Florida Whisper White


After rounds of no stock, no size, refunds, lost shipment, this pair of birkies/papi is like treasure to me. I love the cute undies prints.


Maple syrup heart charm necklace


I’m so suaku not to know what Maple Syrup is but this heart charm necklace simply charm the heart out of me.


Coach signature demi pouch


I’m falling in love with Coach and I’m influencing my friends to fall in love with coach too! I got this demi pouch for slightly more than half the price of what they are selling in Singapore boutiques from this very sweet seller who got them from the States. I waited for this for almost a month that the seller felt so bad and sold me at the price she got it for without earning anything from me. So sweet of her! A word of caution, don’t buy Coach in Singapore! Their prices are marked up by around 40%!!!


“Gucci” waist pouch


As seen on SATC belted around Carrie Bradshaw


My 2nd sis claimed my waist pouch as hers (as usual always claiming my stuff as hers) and I have to borrow 1st sis’s waist pouch but was unable to claim it coz she uses it quite frequently, leaving me with no waist pouch. I know 2nd sis won’t claim this coz she can’t stand the GG monogram. She deems it is aunty-ish and is beginning to doubt my taste in fashion. I however think it is fashionable and chic.


Bronze Balenciaga look-alike for mummy coz she likes Balenciaga designs very much and keeps snagging my white one. So after I got this for her I assumed I can keep snagging her bronze one too. She likes bronze bags… very happening mummy.



A&F Navy Pick polo


A&F Weston polo


Got these two striped polos for kh coz striped polos are so cool! I love Abercrombie and so I’m attempting to influence kh into liking Abercrombie too. ;P


My 2nd sis sent this to me via email and said, “Since you like shopping online so much, I’ve gotten you a Puma Tee.”


I’ve seen this before but I thought it was rather cute of her to send me this.

Reunion at Yishun S-11 coffee shop

Ooh... We haven't met up as a group for 2-3 years!!!


These are friends I knew from primary, secondary and jc times and we are all heartlanders.

xtina and zanne's long awaited meeting. Auditors' lives are very chum. No time to meet for lunch. They are never anywhere but everywhere.


xtina will go on rattling, “The pay isn’t worth it for the amount of hours we put in… If you divide it by the number of hours we work, we are earning like $4.50 an hour… And what do I get? More pimples, more illness, more hair loss and more money spent to rectify these problems…”

Yes, we get it and our hearts go all out to you. *BiG HugZ* But do pull it through July and WOO HOO! You’ll be earning bigger bucks. By then, don’t forget to bring me along on shopping trips.

zanne looks so fierce and wx looks so kiam pa. Me think they have a secret feud.


xtina and me. Need no intro.


Oh no… I didn’t take a picture with zanne coz she had to leave earlier to pack her luggage for a company’s trip. Lucky gal! Enjoy your trip!

"Lao po" and "lao gong". Lao po is wx and lao gong is me... Haha... I wonder how is he going to explain to his gf that he is one gender-confused bloke.


Bear and me.


My bestest jie mei.


A rose among the thorns. The guys haven’t met up with xtina for a looooooong time.


wx being bo liao...


kwan being bo liao...


xtina being bo liao...


Some people like to fiddle with things while they talk.

We should meet up more often. The night was soooooo short and it was a waste that time was so cruel to us.

See you all soon!!! Till June… Promise!

[Insert: name of ex company] Alumni Gathering on 11th May + Cleaning Out My Closet

One plus point (amidst the countless negative points) about my ex company would be the colleagues. Even though we may have become ex colleagues, we would never become ex friends.

There will always be a warm welcome each time we drop by for a visit at HH. A short visit can never be a short visit when you walk past each classroom, pit stop at the usuals for chats and get stopped by everyone along the corridor with a hi and a hello and a quick update.

I dare say we are quite close knitted and you would never get to witness such bonding in other companies. =)

After the short visit at HH and mini shopping spree at the heartlands of TPY, we met up with other ex ex colleagues at Spageddies.

No photos of food this time. Coz eh… the food isn’t exactly that fantastic. Twice at that restaurant and you would feel like you have tried out their whole main course menu.

A trend to note about the people that night: Only 2 of them are still in the company and staying, all the rest have left. It was truly an ALUMNI gathering!

Everyone looked good. Everyone was practically glowing like how one would glow after you leave that co. Ok la the ones still in the co were also glowing.

Everyone was happy. We talked of current jobs, situation in the company etc. Wedding bells are ringing this year for 2 of them. It was cool to hear stories of how the other party proposed and of decorations for new house and invitation. Everyone has reached another phase of life.

Pictures for the night…

We “played musical chairs” outside Starbucks so that we would get to sit with different people to chat.






















My da4 jie3 from 1-year-old team and me.


This is our first and only photo together. And I will not forget her reaction after that shot. “Yay… Finally I’ll have a photo on your blog!

Not gonna include any names to the photos.

After that, a few of us went to catch a midnight show. Initial plan was to watch POSEIDON but there were only 1st row seats left. No way are we gonna watch such a tall ship sink before our eyes in the 1st row. So we settled for MI iii at the 3rd row instead.

Hair was quite obedient that day, curling like how I want them to be and not that frizzy. This is my first good hair day after my horrendous perm so must take more photo of myself!


Acting sweet as always.


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Ahhh!!! I spent a bomb again! Shopping, eating, entertainment, cab fares… Been spending non-stop. I’ve to do something good to atone for my sins. Hence I started packing my room. I was clearing out my drawers and wardrobe to make way for all the stuff that I’ve brought home from the co. I can’t bear to throw away all my interesting readings and notes from my NUS days. I can’t bear to throw away so many things that I think I’m better off hiring someone else to throw away my junk.

The only things I could bear to throw were official letters. At least I managed to throw away all my statements of accounts and other reminders that dated back to 2001! Horrible me!

I repacked and relabelled all my NUS readings and notes. I’ve decided to keep all my Geography and History readings coz I haven’t finished them and they are so interesting. Geography and History at university level is not at all like in secondary and jc level. You should really try reading some of them. I speed read through some of my history readings last night and this morning, as I’ll be passing them to kh’s bro soon. My family members think I’m siao to be “studying” now. I also admired all my A range essays and projects, marvelled at what I could churn out under stress and wondered why on earth my final grades weren’t anywhere near A.

I was so lazy in packing my room that I often stopped and do some other things. For example, when I came across some new but unused leftovers of brown hair rubber bands, I stopped packing and went to replace the worn out elastic bands of my pretty flower shoes which I have been so lazy to shop for the elastic bands and replace every other day.

My pretty shoes before the elastic band disintegrated and loosened.


My “new” shoes


I replaced the elastic band with my hair rubber bands by tying a 3 of them together for each shoes. I thought I would never get to use so many brown hair rubber bands in my life and they proved to come into good use. Although the dark brown doesn’t really match the shoes, I’m happy to be able to wear them again. =)

Came across this crumpled looking piece of comic from Sherman's Lagoon. [Click to enlarge]


I really love this comic! It aptly summarizes why ladies always get angry with their men for what the latter cannot understand or feel are small matters. Neat!

Came across my “time capsule” box. This time capsule box is full of things which hold certain memories yet are useless to keep and take up space in my drawers. Things like my glasses from primary school days (the frames and lenses got smaller as I grew), my nametags, bus concession cards and other expired cards, objects signed by frenz and small enough to fold and squeeze into the box like…

this towel from NYJC 1st 3 months…


And a lot a lot a lot of other things…

The ones which brought back the most memories were my 3 pagers which accompanied me throughout my growing pains!

From top to bottom: numeric Shuwa pager from sec 3-4, Motorola jazz matazz in metallic lilac from sec4-jc1, 2nd hand Motorola jazz word in snazzy yellow (given by a friend) from jc2 till I got myself a nokia 8250


Secondary and jc days were the pager era. While thumbing handphone keypads to sms is the in thing now, it used to be pressing frantically at the house phone and public phone to “alpha” frenz. Almost everyone had an alphanumeric pager then. It was not only fun to alpha frenz… it was so cool to be alpha-ed. It was cool to have more than 5 voicemails in your mailbox. It was cool to exchange access codes to listen to friends’ voicemails. It was cool to sing into friends’ voicemails. It was cool to listen to the voice of those you had a crush on over and over again.

It was cool to have pagers.

Those people who owned handphones weren’t really that cool you know? And they missed out on all the fun too!

How I really missed those pager days and I’m sure many of you with pagers feel the same way as I do. =) How many of you still keep your pagers as memento?