Moody

Been a bad week. An emotional timebomb waiting to explode. My thought are so wrecked up over the bad news that came as an avalanche one after another that I had no time to react to any. That makes the screwup in our new nest handling the least of all problems right now. More to this when I commit to my JUST DO IT attitude. I havent bothered to ask which hospital she lies in.

Reminds me of life's fragility and to count our blessings in life. Worst, the man's in the outfield right this moment. No one to bask me in TLC. *breathesdeeply*

Then I realised maybe it's just the effing hormones.

Screw the PMS.

No wonder I am also very sleepy today.

Different talents

He is musically talented and can play most instruments. He also has the gift of replaying songs after listening to them for a couple of times, without even needing to look at the daogeis.

But he certainly is not gifted in one aspect.... ;p

I drew the tail and the crocs (disclaimer first). You can criticise all other aspects of HIS bear.

Do you see something that is wrong with the bear????!!!

God is really fair :):):)

Work in progress

A quick fixie last night after our movie date ;p
Got a pair of Draw-it-Yourself beary banks a while ago from a gift shop. It comes with a marker for you to draw on anything you want... Both of us will get to decorate our own bears.

But I had chio-er ideas for her... I finally found the time to dress her up using my own tools last night.
Bought her a pair of eyes, twisted a garland of flowers for her crown and gave her a wedding veil :)
I am still trying to think of the outfit..

A major problem though....the man's no good in craft! Wait till you see his bear! LOL!!

Rag and bone lady

I have been using quite a bit of the right brain lately. It all started with aspirations to do up my own bridal bouquet. Since Valentine’s Day was just around the corner, I got inspired to frame up some meaningful photographs for The Fiancé.

There were the IKEA wooden frames that The Sister got for me a while back (at least a year already!), the scraps of cloth The Fiancé passed to me to throw away (which I garang guni-ly kept in a small corner of my bedside) - I couldn’t make myself throw these hankies which just came out fresh from his necktie box set and a box of acrylic paints from Pinky’s secondary school days.

Oh the useful scraps!

And these days, I have been looking at antique furniture transformation! Don’t throw away that old cabinet! Or that old chair! Dont believe? Take a peek at some inspirations I found on the internet!

A $5 chair from some garage sale...

transformed into this!!!!!

The rag and bone man's job is going to be lucrative if all can use their right brains! :p

And these days, I have started seeing the ballet turning girl's brain teaser turn in BOTH directions! Way to go *pats self on back*! I am developing the side of the brain that has been sleeping for a superrrrr long time! ;p

Rabbit Year!

Ushering in the Hoppy New Year!!

Having grown up a little more each year, I begin to realise CNY isnt just about collecting ang bows, snacking on the table-ful of goodies and falling asleep in front of the teevee while the parents caught up with the adults over MJ. It is about loving, caring, respecting the elders, giving and catching up with close kins you have never had the chance to meet up (much/at all) during the year.

We took the chance to announce Our Big Day.

It is also a good time to remember the less fortunate - We cleared out 3 big bags of clothes and brought them to The Salvation Army on the eve. We used to just dump them at the void deck and wait for the bulk collection truck from the Town Council.

We saved the table that is older than me from going down to the bulk collection point. It became the focal structure in the balcony, together with some greens Mom and I put together for the festive season. Daisy was fuschia! 

Did up all final CNY shopping. Kaypoh Murphy checked all out.

The new range of charms for the Rabbit Year! 

N got me my crocodile 

Kidnapped Murphy's playmate home before reunion dinner on the eve.

Day 2 of CNY was spent at 2nd aunt's house. New addition to the household!! Mommy displaying her nannying skills. Seeing how the new mummies around me fluster over their babies, find it troublesome to bring their baby out, I think my mom did a terrific job bringing all of us up! I was 5 when she had the 2nd sister. I was 8 and xian was 3 when she had our 3rd sister. And those days, without a car, she SINGLEHANDEDLY brought all three of us out to gaigai when dad was at work!! Getting old makes you emo over such things. bleah.

Alot of such feastsssssss + lou hei awaited us at EVERY house we visited. I visited 7 houses over the past 4 days. Make that 3 days, cos 3rd day was actually spent snoozing from 6AM - 2PM and 6PM - 8PM cos we did an overnight MJ the day before.

O_o"

Traditional Lou Hei to toss the food high up into the air while saying good blessings at every toss. The higher, the better.

And the louder, the better.......

We were so noisy that we shocked a baby....

('O') What are the adults doing?!?!?!?!

Happy Chinese New Year!!!!! :) 

Opposites Attract

Our DIFFERENCE

Love is about learning and appreciating tiny details in life and accepting your differences. N is not the sweetest bf on earth. It took me a long time to teach him mannerism of a gentleman, O_o" and I am still not enjoying the fruit of my labour. Perhaps that flower never bloomed.

But if you learn to look beyond these more apparent loving acts like opening the car door, holding the door before it slams into your face, slowing down the pace knowing that you are trying to balance on a 3 inch stiletto while trying to avoid every crack on the wooden plank walk, and appreciate the more intrinsic acts of love, you will realise that HEY! life's not so bad after all!

I appreciate how he d always let me have the first bite of food, willingly trade his apparently yummier choice of food for mine, order my hot kopi on top of his ice cold canned drink - all these are little acts you tend to overlook in life. But the consistent pursue to be treated like a princess (that's for him to give you gentlemanly treatment) often clouds your judgement of your other half. I have (kinda) resigned to fate, though that doesnt mean I will stop grumbling (disclaimer first!!).. I guess men's partially the reason why women become grumpy and naggy. If only they would LEARN!

That aside, we realise that we do have alot of differences. But that just further shows how much we were made for each other.

About a month ago, N and I had a conversation over the financial/logistic planning of the wedding and the house. He drew out a very rough but sensible idea of the proposed timeline for each major purchases and gave me a very good speech in a very.....urm....marketing way. You know, like, we hope to conquer the Msia market by June with 30% of total sales and the Indonesian market by November with 60% of total sales kinda talk. I agreed with all that he said.

A month later, while doing up the budget planning for the whole wedding with our savings/earnings/available resources, I did a projected cash flow for each individual purchases (down to individual household item details), bearing in mind the payment terms (instalments, 50-50, completion) we would be given and the assets that would be maturing at different points in time. I quickly called him and told him about MY plan. And he asked me,

"Why are you repeating what I said to you a month ago????" 

Heh. I didnt realise I was actually parroting after him in MY own way. The accountancy-trained way... ;p

This is also the same man who has been allocated the childhood montage's job but who has cleverly 'subcontracted' it out to SG Bridals O_o" Now I think I should allocate him one of my to dos - bouquet or ang bow box or corsage!