Renovation Stress

Its been a while since we last posted to this blog. We've done many activities during this period. First, we officially started our renovation on the 22nd Feb (suppose to be a good day according to him). We went down to take a peek at the place, quite a disaster, there was dust and dirt everywhere..our efforts over the past two weeks were all gone. I just pray that they'll return me nice and clean house after renovation.

Maria (our renovation contractor) hasn't been really helpful afterall, we have to pay $7000 even before anything much was done. But she mentioned its the rule. Stupid rules and regulations again. I hope her brother Joseph comes back soon..at least he is more accomodating. We managed to sell our staircase railing for $50. Not much but better than getting back nothing at all. We spent the $50 on food the next day. I really hope our utilities bill for the new house don't choke up too high.

We went down to JB to try out gowns for the photoshoot on saturday. I took my time to select the gowns..tried on so many gowns that I've already lost count. By the way, forgot to mention we metup with a videographer on friday night...Kevin from Yappies Production, his works is ok but price is reasonable...and he is quite a nice chap, so we've decided to engage his services for our wedding..I was worried that most videographers will jerk up the price for xmas eve. I did some research for photographer that night..and found one "lightedpixels" ...really cool works..his style is to capture the joyous moment at its most natural look. I really liked his style..hope he can agree to take my wedding photos for me.

Anyway, back to the gown selection, I was beginning to regret choosing that Bridal Studio as I find the gowns are really limited and really nothing special...but no choice, already paid deposit..so I tried my best to select some gowns that I like...I ended up with 3 pretty white gowns...really special and nice. And 2 evening gowns...one black and one gold..(I've decided to swap the gold piece after consideration...that one is really translucent.) And one RED chinese costume...not the traditional kua..I'll leave the kua for my wedding day. And one more European style costume. They've decided to give me one extra angel look for my outdoor..I'll prepare my own clothes for it. Will take photos among the greenary...will be real nice I think.

It has been real sweet travelling around Yishun on my bicycle..with dear ferrying me..I am sitting at the back...we managed to find a nice and yummy kambing soup after some disappointment. Watched the movie "Final Destination" on sat..gross show.

Sunday, we went down to Sim Siang Choon to select our toilet accessories for the house. I was quite shocked by the prices for a sunshower set...so many limitations, can't change this, can't change that..and yet so expensive. I wanted to buy two sets originally, but decided we can't afford even one set. But luckily we managed to find a good deal, the shower head I wanted was going at a cheap price...$50 cheaper than original..and only one unit left. We bought that without second thought. Bought some other nice accessories as well...spent $375 in total. We even got a clothes hanger for free cos the salesgirl forgot to add that into the invoice..haha...bonus in disguise. Not a good thing..but we were happy about it cos our budget was really tight. I lost a bit of temper there cos of not enough sleep and the frustration from not enough budget..plus dear was there going against most of my ideas...I just broke out and said, "OK, I give up, I don't want to think anymore. You go ahead and plan." Realising I am really angry, he stopped talking and looked at me. I calmed down after a while and resumed our shopping.Phew..luckily only had to do this once.

Birthday Surprise !

"hey, the pub man called, saying that we had violated some rules and is coming down to investigate later... can u go back later and take a look?"

This is what my dar had told me earlier-on... I am supposed to borrow car from dad later so that i could send dar to work the next morning.. (meant to be a surprise..) start to panic liao... how leh... last min got to rush to both places... haha.. come to think of it, everytime i planned something... my dar dar will always have some counter-surprise for me.. *grrr... anyway.. i proceed on calmly.. took the car and drove to our new house... just when i was reaching, my dar send me an sms asking if i had reached... hmm... "fishy" cas if it is something urgent, she will call me straight... so i decideded to call her and sound things out... hmm.... didn't sense anything nervous from her voice... but wait !!! just when i was about to open the door, i saw lights coming within the house thru the window's gap... my first thought was... did i forgot to off the lights? or even worst.... got burgler !!... so i opened the door slowly and observe..... I didn't go into the house... I just opened the door and stood outside... looking... hahaha.. guess what...! my wife jump out instead.... hee... she always makes my heart beats faster... and this time it is no exception.. perharps thats the reason why i luv her so much... after hugging each other, she lead me to the dinning table... she had decorated the whole area with balloons... ordered pizza and even got a cake ~ woo... nice ! it was later known that, we had both secretly come back to the house on the same day around the same time, both related to the preparation of valentine day... hahah... so sweet... And so, we both feast to our hearts content... the whole thing was filled with joy and happiness.. i even got a card with an ang bao inside. :)
and thats how we spend our valentine's eve..

Our 2nd Valentine Day

Seems like he did not post about our 2nd v'day as what he said. 14th of Feb arrived after much anticipation. I started planning for this day the week before as this is also his birthday. Dear bought me a set of clothes weeks ago for this special day...knowing he already had plans for valentine, I shifted my birthday surprise for him to the 13th instead. I shall leave it to him to talk about his birthday surprise..

Valentine this year was really special knowing he has plans for the night..(he never really planned anything for me before). Even special days like my birthday was planned by me. He probably thinks that as long as he is around with me on special day and has a present ready for me, that'll be sufficient. But after voicing out my displeasure..am glad he is making the effort to change things. His Valentine programme started exactly at 12 midnight. After sending me home, he gave me a call from downstairs...saying he has left a sunflower and a card at my doorstep..i rushed to the door to collect my first gifts...he told me to look outside the window and there he is, downstairs holding his guitar...funny thing is he even brought a stool along..suppose to be romantic ma, but the whole scene looks comical..(he is wearing shorts and sandles...holding a guitar and sitting on a stool.) I wouldn't be surprise if someone throw him some coins..the most funny part is..a dog started barking loudly the minute he started singing ...his singing must be too awful i guess. Then dear started moving his stool away ..further from the dog. Haha..i almost laughed till i fall off my bed when I see this.

That is how my valentine night begin. He send me to work the next morning...feels nice to hv someone send u to work...wished he could do that everyday..hehe. He came back again at night to pick me up..the car was filled with red and white heart shaped balloons...reminds me of national day. He did not tell me where we're going for dinner...saying its meant to be a secret...but as we headed towards Yishun, my mood dampened...I din wan to spend our V'day at our new house cos we've already spent yesterday there...

Then he drove past Yishun and headed towards Sembawang....along the journey..he presented me with a stalk of rose. We arrived at SAF Yatch Club (where we were having our dinner). For a moment, I thought we're going out to the sea to have our valentine dinner..that'll be so special...anyway he made reservations at the restuarant by the sea. Not a bad place..nice scenary. We ordered a Cheese Lobster set dinner...menu looks good...dishes is ok..but not really satisfying. I rather have crayfish at JB if I had a choice. My presents for the night was one monkey and one turtle figurine..cute.. haha..i had monkey and turtle softoys, keychains...what else?

Dear dedicated the first song of the night to me.. its called "Can't help falling in love". The night was spent with nice sea breeze, romantic love songs ...can't say much for the venue and food though. I was a bit unhappy with dear for mentioning my surname in the dedication...seeing i am unhappy, he presented me my last present which was meant to be a surprise "a SKII gift set"! Wow...costs him $200+. Really feel heartache for him...especially now when we are trying hard to save for our wedding..I jokingly told him he could have bought me a iPod Nano (which was in my wish list) for another $60. From this we concluded, he isn't really good at giving presents and have agreed that he'll give me the money in future and I will buy my own gifts...hehe.

We spent the night at our new house after dinner...and that concludes our memorable 2nd Valentine Day.

Parents...

Most of the weekends I spent at dear's house, we will be accompanying his parents...felt kinda bad cos I neglected my mum quite badly. Compared to his parents, I consider myself lucky as my mum is still pretty normal (although she got a bad temper). His parents are kinda wierd...dad likes to brag and never will admit he is wrong (can understand cos he and I share a bit of same character). But it can get quite frustrating when you're trying to put a point across to him. His mum keeps to herself...a lot. She treats me really well...made soup for me after I had my eye surgery and bought me tonics due to my cough. I wouldn't say she's a bad person..but she doesn't realise how fortunate she is. She doesn't have to earn her living...but yet spends a lot of money on unneccesary items...we got all our house cleaning stuff from her cos she got too many of them. The only thing I can't stand about her is the lack of concern for wastage and a little bit of selfishness.

Dad basically treats his family and friends similarly...sometimes I can't really tell which is more impt to him, his work, his friends or his family? Without the names of Mum and Dad, one can never tell they're a family. hmm..wierd.

Sometimes I do get quite pissed with dear for trying so hard to please everyone and made himself or me (sometimes) suffer as a result. Eg. in order to accomodate his dad's time, I have to go home 2-3hours late or we can't go the places we planned to go cos his parents is tagging along. Sometimes they don't get the hint that we want to spend time together alone...afterall, its not only their weekend. If only parents can be openminded and outgoing by nature..at least thats what I aim to be in future.

Finally Our House~

After weeks of long-neck waiting..finally the day to the collection of our house keys. We did a last check of the house last night..was so excited about it that we both arrived earlier than the scheduled time. We walked hand in hand in the rain towards our house...trying to picture what its like when we move in..and will go home together. It will be pretty sweet I guess (although the distance is not really that near). We probably will depend a lot on bicycle in future. Luckily I already know how to cycle. Hehe. The outstanding issues about the house were settled with our agent agreeing to bear the costs of S$60 (for the pipe cover and light bulbs). I just pray that there won't be anymore surprises for us.

Although I din like the seller couple very much, I still managed to force a smile on my face after the transaction on friday..happy that it'll be last I see of them...sighx..initially I still thought we can become friends..but I guess not. After our keys collection, we went back to the new house to take a look..we were both glad that we can now enter our house with due rights. The house was in a not-so-good condition, especially the floor tiles...well, we have to live with it for a while since we don't have much spare money to redo the floors.

Spent the entire weekend, since friday cleaning and washing the floors. Bet this is the most housechores we've done in our entire span of being alive. We went home with aching body and sweat..but feeling happy that the flooring finally looks cleaner. Both of us can't wait to go back next weekend to finish off where we've stopped. Loved our house~

Dun stress ah~

after 5mins of signing in and out of blogspot, thinking of what to write... i decided to say just this.... to my wife... Lao po, i luv u.. dun be stress over things... whatever it is, i will always be there for u..
meanwhile, let us enjoy the process of renovating our new house and preparing for our wedding.

Work Stress

Received a sms this morning..read it through my still sleepy eyes...it reads something like "Whenever it is raining, I still miss you..". From one of my ex-bf. Don't understand what he is thinking...thought he is already happily married? Derxx...don't these guys care a bit about how their wifes or gfs might feel?? Another msg me on msn this morning with the nick "Missing Somone". So I jokingly asked, "Who you miss?" He replied "U". Another joker. Luckily I am sure my dear won't do such things.. or I'll skin him alive...haha...no la..I'll just finish all his money...then he'll be broke. Hehe.

I have been having nitemares about my work these few days...some were about working late nights and hv to go work early in the morning...although I am in a "safe" position now, but not sure how long this will lasts. With her lousy management skills, I am sure I can't tahan much longer. She called me in again this morning...after badmouthing some pple..she said something really funnie...boosting abt her accomplishments again. God...can't she learn to be humble. Anyway, this week is definitely a short week...collecting our keys on friday..and will be out for meetings almost every afternoon..yippy.

TT's sleeping disorder

He did it again. After many months of normal sleep, I thought he was back to normal, but that night when I was snuggling up to him, his sudden reaction accidentally hit my nose..another nightmare I guess. The pain made me cry...i cried and cried..he immediately woke up and tried to console me..afraid that he has hit my eye. I was angry and told him I never want to sleep beside him again...almost wanted to kick him off my bed. Hehe. I can't sleep well beside him..not sure if its becos of my bed or wat...hope I get used to it soon..or else how to adjust to our married life soon.

Saturday's lasik review went well...although the stupid doctor was late for 1.5hours! Can you imagine we (about 10 patients in total) waited for him. And I had to pay $50 just for a 5mins review. Anyway, was happy to find out my right eye had only 25degree and left eye 50degrees left. Hopefully they vanish pretty soon as well to give me perfect and clear eyesight. Donated my pair of old specs but they did not give me the FOC vitamins as advertised..sighx, but nvm, I wanted to get rid of my unwanted stuff anyway. Dear bought me a surprise suit of clothes yesterday, suppose to wear for him on V'day. So excited abou it..wonder what he is planning...but I got my plans ready..just not sure when's a good time to carry it out..can't tell much, cos he is reading this also. We spent the afternoon shopping around Orchard..I realised I have less shopping urge now..perhaps becos I have tons of almost everything and I am trying hard to get rid of them to make space for my new house. Well..I ended up buying a top from Forever-Seventeen..which I loved quite a lot. Its this long sleeve black plain top..simple but good enough to keep me warm..I'll wear it for our honeymoon trip to Europe this dec. Hehe. We drop by Tiffany to check if they could get my ring fixed, the "Tiffany" tag dropped off. Sadly, the salesguy said they can't do anything abt it cos it happens quite often. Well...I was quite disappointed but luckily he agreed to give us express cleaning service for our rings (normally have to wait a week). Luckily he din question if my ring is fake..so that cheers me up. Anyway, we are going to get our brand new wedding band soon..so not so bad.

After shopping, we proceeded with junk food snatching at Taka. Bought Jap satays, brownies, curry puffs, kueh lapis..yummy. This was our dinner for the night. We rushed home so that wun get caught in the Chinggay crowd. Don't understand why Singaporeans like to join in the crowd so much. Chinggay wasn't even invented with Singaporeans in mind in the first place..just think of the place they organize and you'll know who its for. Well..forgot to mention me and dear had a long debat about the glass door in our bathroom...dun understand why he loves a door so much, and can't even give me a valid reason why he needs to go to the other bathroom through the first bathroom...can't he use the door?? hmm...

We spent our night watching "I not Stupid 1" together...the fear from the incident the night before was gone and I was happy to be in his arms again. Feel so fortunate to be loved by him..all the funny things we shared together...how he came running out of his office on friday when i was downstairs waiting for him...screaming at me to run quick cos his scary colleague was behide him...how we went into a bungalow showhouse pretending we were interested buyers when actually we just wanted to steal some design ideas. Hehe. Can't wait for the day to come soon when we can sleep and live together...love him more and more each day.

Our 2nd CNY together!

CNY came and left in a blink of the eye and we're back to the routine work life again...late for work and took a cab down today..hee..no sweat cos got ang pow money to pay. Saw the canteen downstairs closed...and everywhere else is so quiet..poor us, still gotto work..everybody else seems to be still enjoying their hols. Anyway, this CNY is the second one I am spending with dear. We spent most of our time together for the past few days. First day "Chu Yi" was fun..dear planned a entire day's programme of ang pow snatching! I lost count of the number of houses we visited and the number of faces I met. Dear have not met most of those relatives himself as well..and this kept me thinking...how many unknown faces do we have to invite for our wedding?

Since this is the last year we can officially receive ang pow, we had our fun running around houses and collecting them this year. Hehe...not bad...I got about $200 from ang pow from the 2 days. Sad thing was mum did not give me anything cos she insisted that ROM is considered married and even demanded I give her ang pow this year. @#@%Ang pow from papa & mama also shrink this year. Sighx. Maybe I should have been contented with being a gf for a longer period. Hehe..

The 2 days of CNY was soooo tiring...we slept at almost 4am for the two days..and by the third day, I m so thankful I have the full day to sleep...I slept till 5pm that day..phew. Well, my "lasiked" eyes were still in a blur..I am a bit worried though, although I read on some forums that some pple had blur eyes for 3mths after their lasik treatment...well..it is already giving me problems..I can't work efficiently cos can't read the words on my computer screen and can't drive cos can't see clearly. And straining my eyes to see is making my eyes damm tired.

We had a discussion on our future house (in 10 more days to be exact) and our wedding...seems like a lot of things is not done yet..I hope I don't get pre-maritial depression. But anyway..so excited about everything...now I only wish I find a better job soon with nice bosses. Ciaoz!