Smiling Donkey

Oops... Realised that i covered the mouth of the donkey when I posted his pic up... So you won't be able to see him smiling... Here's the picture again...

Now you can see him smile? So cute, right.. I'll be hunting for him in Santorini...

Renovation Update

Finally, HDB approval is out...
Phew, what a wait... Just received my renovation schedule from my ID... Eagar to share it with everybody...

Official start date : 27 Mar 2007
Official end date : 26 Apr 2007 [Tentative]

Has lots of things to do now... Gotta call up Courts & Aero Furnishing to reschedule my furnitures & electrical applicances delivery date... Gotta make a trip down to Sim Siang Choon to select my bathroom accessories, make payment for the outstanding amount and to confirm my delivery date for my kitchen sanitary... Gotta make a trip down to Thomson Lighting to make payment for the outstanding amount and to confirm my delivery date and most impt to choose my doorbell...

So happening... But i so happy =P
I can't wait for my new hse to be ready...

I'm going to Athens... Yippee !!!

Finally, my Athens is confirmed... So happy...

Here's a peek into our trip details...

14th Apr (Mon) : Dear will be flying off to Athens with his colleagues
16th Apr (Wed) : I will be flying off to Athens alone, transitting @ Amsterdam (a bit scared...)
17th Apr (Thurs) : Arrived @ Athens and will be meeting Dear @ Hotel Intercontinental.. Had arranged for airport transfer.. Though a little ex but make us feel better, knowing that there is someone waiting for me @ the airport... Dear won't be so worried for me too...=P
20th Apr (Sun) : We'll be going for a 2D1N tour to Santorini...
21st Apr (Mon) : We'll be back in Athens again, this time checking into Marriot Hotel
23rd Apr (Wed) : Time to check out and fly home...

Chose to stay @ Hotel Intercontinental & Marriot Hotel while in Athens... wow.. 5 stars hotel .. but dun worry folks, we are not paying 5 stars price... they offering me quite gd corporate rate... equivalent to a 3 stars proce.. so why not, grab the offer =P

Haven decided on what to do during our stay @ Athens... will take my sweet time to decide... Meanwhile, had decided what to do in Santorini... I'm going to watch sunset (it's famous for that...) and i'm going to look for the famous smiling donkey... wish me luck, folk =P

Going to do my homework from now till 16th Apr... Making sure that Athens trip will turn out gd & fun =P So looking forward to it... =)

Some pics abt Santorini... Enjoy folks =P

Shopping = Therapy

Went shopping last weekend @ Vivo City & Novena Square & Sqaure 2 ... Shiok...

Bought the following items [wanna take pics but forgot.. oops...] :

4 pairs of shoes...
I know what u guys are thinking but... nope, not all are mine... 3 of them belongs to dear... 2 are his leather shoes for work (From Everbest & Pedro) and 1 causal "uncle" shoes (From Everbest)... Rainy seasons couple of weeks back had made him realise there are holes underneath his shoes.. Had no choice but to buy new working shoes... As for me, I'm such a good gal, only bought 1 pair of heels from Charles & Keith... gg to wear them one of this days when I wear brown skirt or tops =P

Container...
Wanna to store all my digital camera barang barang together, so bought this container (with handle) to "dump" all the barang barang together... Make things so neat... I loved them... Got it for only $2 @ Daiso... loved getting things from Daiso...

Honey...
Bought 2 cans of honey... The auntie selling them to us say until the honey are "wonders", so we decided to give them a try... One can apparently is good for your throat... The other is for complexion & detox (ha ha ha.. does that mean i'll be slimmer???)... Tried them in the morning... Not bad... Going to keep up the habit of making myself & dear a cuppa a morning...

Shopping is great form of therapy... Looking forward for more... =P

Dates & Days

Received this file "Age" from my colleague today.. Thought it is kinda amazing cos the file will calculate the day of the date and how much time has passed since then...

Here's some of my impt date... which day it fall on... And how much time have gone by since that date...

22/09/1977 : Thursday & 30 Yrs, 5 mths & 25 days
03/09/1981 : Thursday & 26 Yrs, 6 mths & 15 days
12/07/2000 : Wednesday & 7 Yrs, 8 mths & 6 days
12 /06/2004 : Saturday & 3 Yrs, 9 mths & 6 days
25/11/2006 : Saturday & 1 Yrs, 3 mths & 22 days

So 巧, both dear and my birthday fall on Thursday... And our ROM and wedding fall on Saturday [this is on purpose] =P

I Bought My Furnitures

Last weekend, we visited Furniture Mall, searching for a sofa set, coffee table and dining table set. Always saw from the newspaper that variety @ the Mall is huge, so decided to give that place a try.. Anyway, we dun really like furnitures from Courts & IKEA, so why not give the Mall a chance...

The search initially is tough... We combed through the 1st & 2nd floor but din find anything we liked... Saw a small sofa set that we "sort of like it".. Thought of getting it until we heard the quoted price... S$2,400... wow... exceeded my budget by almost a thousand... The sofa is small, so huge price mainly due to material... thought we dun need to get such an atas one... Decided to try the last storey... If dun have, then we will visit somewehere else... Quite "sad" after combing 2nd storey and found nothing we liked... Thought we might end up getting our things from different shops or even somewhere else...

The shops @ 3rd floor surprised us... At one particular shop, we found the sofa, dining table & coffee table that we wanted... All as a set cos of the sewing and material... We fell in love with all the items.. Best part is we can get all of them fron the same supplier.. Our theme for reno is modern, so color combi is black, white and grey... Now we all have it, including the furnishing... So happy...

Made my weekend so much brighter =P

1st Wedding Bell for 2008

I went to SoonSze wedding on Saturday... that's the 1st wedding bell for 2008...Congrat gal =P Dear went to Hilton Hotel on same night too for his colleague wedding ... Same ballroom as us but apparantly the menu changed... that's the 1st wedding we attended this year...

Sze wedding is held @ M Hotel... Seem like M Hotel is a all time favorite this year... i got 2 other upcoming weddings in that hotel too... Sze is my JC mate, so met lots of old classmates there... Had a fun time chit chating with all of them...

I dun really like the ballroom of M Hotel... Walk in for the wedding couple is too short... From where I'm sitting, I can't catch a glimspe of the wedding couple... Also, we are sort of block of by big pillar at the back of the ballroom... Still prefer my Hilton =P

More red bombs on the way.. Let's do a count...
April : Danaka @ Shangri La
June : Shimei
June : Lina
October : Peiling @ M Hotel
October : Dear's cousin @ Yio ChuKang Grassroot
December : Guixia @ M Hotel
December : Liyun @ Swissotel Merchant Court

wow wow... 7 red bombs... wonder if there is anymore coming that i dun noe... seem like 2008 is a gd year to get married.. Or like what dear says, it is abt time that my age grp start to settle down =P

Maybe next year will be all the babies showers...

Laptop Web Camera & Life Frame Programme & Microsoft Office 2007

My laptop has built-in web camera (it’s a rotatable one too)and a program called Life Frame… Now I can take pictures using this program & camera and the best part of it, I can use the preset frames in the program and apply different kind of effects to the photos… So interesting… Technology really moving fast ahead… I’m using MS Office 2007 to edit my photos…So many functions… I’m so happy…

Here are some photos for you taken using the web camera & the Life Frame program… Keep a lookout… I’ll be playing with my laptop more often now and you can expect more photos on the way…

Used my digital camera to take some photos too… Here’s 2 of them… after some editing help with my MS Office Power Point 2007

From my Digital Camera, after editing using Ms Office 2007 :

Using Life Frame Program :
Using Life Frame Program :

IT Fair Conquest

Took a day leave and went to 2008 IT Fair @ Suntec with my hubby and Pet… Items in the shopping cart includes a laptop, a 4in1printer and a digital camera…These are for the new hse… So excited…

Though we went on a Friday, the crowd was pretty scary… Can’t imagine what it is like on weekend… Usually, dear and me will avoid Suntec if there is an IT Fair… Imagine we waited for almost half an hour driving round Suntec, just to get into a car park… Luckily, we dun do this too often…

There are lots of stores in the exhibition hall and many pple were giving out flyer and shouting “Sale Sale… Great Bargain Here…” Luckily we have Pet with us who knows everything…

Grabbed all our things in abt 3 hrs time… So happy that day.. 1st, all our purchases are below the budget that we set by 15%… Great saving there… 2nd, we managed to get everything we want from this fair… Last but not least, have to thanks all the sponsors for their freebies… Best-liked freebies are the external hard dick (160GB) and the digital photo frame… Really enjoyed the IT Fair…

Here’s some things I bought and some that I got them free =P

Massage @ AMK

Went for massage at AMK… was one of the worst experience I ever had.. I was struggling with pain throughout the whole one hour…

Although I had felt pain before during my foot massage, I can still bear with it… After which, my whole leg will feel so relax and light…So shiok one lor… But the experience I had at AMK turned me so off that I told dear that I’ll not be going back to that shop ever, ever again… 1st , the pain during the massage was totally unbearable.. The girl doing it for me was like… “Oh I very light already.. If I had used extra strength, it wld be like this…” Then she demonstrated her “full strength” on me…My tears almost came on and immediately asked her to stop… She went to to talk about my muscle on the legs are too tight, so should go for more regular massages… 1st time someone told me that though…

After the end of the session, I felt like my legs wanna “came off” from my upper body… Even when I walked or when dear touched my legs, I felt disturbing pain… My worries that my legs will have bruises came true… The next day, lots of bruises appeared… From my ankle, up my calf, to my knee and above my knee…. So many blue black… Almost fainted…

I’ll be black listing this outlet from now on… Dun ever, ever expect me to go back =(

Renovation Update

Went down last Friday to my new hse…

Officers @ HDB HQ rejected our initial application to hack down the walls, so HDB rep taking charge of our new block arranged to meet us and our ID to find out more abt our approval… turn out that all our walls that we intend to hack can be hacked… Officers @ HDB HQ rejected the application due to the word “Beams” missing from our submitted drawing… O_O

The drawings are so clear, can’t really figure out what the officers are doing… Both us and my ID rolled our eyes…

Our 3d drawings are still pending amendments from my ID… She is currently working on the paper works for the PE a.k.a. Professional Engineer to sign off when being present to view the hacking… Will be meeting her this wkend to finalize the reno details… So happy… at least got movement… But all this movement I must chase myself… by giving my ID sms after sms... Otherwise, no news abt the progress… hope she can be more automatic… at least keep me updated abt what’s going on…

Though there is progress, I think I’ll miss the chance of able to move in before I go Greece... So sad =( Have to pushed everything behind now cos will be away in Greece for 1 week… Hope things will be smooth… Next target date to move into new hse is 1st May =P

Condolence to The Family of The Dead

A fatal accident happened on Tuesday… 5 vehicles crashed into one another… The most unfortunate one was the car being sandwich in between, with 1 bus & 1 sedan in front and 2 lorries behind… Driver died on the spot… Heard that he was crashed to death…

Read from the Chinese papers that car was stationary due to red lights… Before he could react, the lorry came crashing into his car from behind… Poor fellow, there was completely no reaction time for him… I guessed it is true when pple say, “When it is time to go, you must go. Nothing can prevent that.”
Condolence to the family members of the driver who passed away… Be strong and move ahead… He will be watching you guys from far and will give you all his blessing…

Update on Ms Elly’s Drooling Problem

Remember my post on Ms Elly where she has a drooling problem… Her condition improved… Yippee… Couple of days ago, when Mabel reported to work in the morning, she noticed that Ms Elly was still drooling… However she only drooled one drop instead of one pool of water… So happy =P

AMK Hawker Centre

Calling out to all food lovers… The hawker centre @ AMK centre is now opened… After the long awaited renovation, the place really looked more different now… Better ventilation too…

Had dinner with my family on Sunday night @ the hawker centre… Food remains delicious as before… Guess that will be one of our favorite hang-out or makan place in future =P

My Little Cousins

My 6th uncle has 3 baby girls… Had only seen the eldest one when my uncle and auntie brought her along to Singapore from Malaysia for my wedding… That time, the 2nd cousin is still young, so uncle left her in the care of his in-laws… My youngest cousin was just born in January 2008… Din get a chance to see her too cos din follow my mum in to KL during my uncle’s wedding…

But my sisters took lots of pictures =P Here are a couple of them taken off from my sister’s blog… Aren’t my cousins adorable?

Some Pictures of Baby Jovan

Din post any photos of baby Jovan on my blog the last time… Here is a couple of his pictures extracted from Lin Ling’s blog… Isn’t Baby Jovan so handsome =P

Cold & Sad Morning

I just came back from an presentation.. As usual, got scolded for not doing as well as expected.. The scolding had sort of became a routine.. Instead of monthly presentation, I now called it monthly scolding session... On top of this, the weather had been bad for the past few days.. just kept raining.. I dun like.. make me feel cold & sad too...

I simply got no time to update my blog later.. got so many events & happening to pin down.. Going to try doing it tonight.. Maybe later if I'm tired of working, i'll start to write something too.. Well, after all the scolding, really feel depressed.. Can I just dun work for today? Ke ke ke....

C'mon gal.. Jia you.. the day will be brighter.. Lunch time soon.. Looking forward to it =P

Warm welcome to Baby Jovan !!!

On Thursday last week, baby Jovan arrived into this world.. We visited him @ LL's mum place in Bishan on Friday night since dear can stay out..

Muz salute to LL 1st.. for not using epidural again.... how can she tahan the pain... Bought the normal tonics for her.. Then bought a toy for Jovin (worried that we'll all be hooked up to Jovan and forgot abt her...) Also bough pandan cakes as supper for the 2 piggys aka 2 hubbies... Funny huh.. pandan cake as hse visit "gift".. ha ha ha...

Ley's talk abt Baby Jovan since it is his day... He is so so small... just the length of my hand, from finger nails to me elbow.. din dare to touch him also.. thought he'll be sleeping most of the time but surprising, he woke up from his sleep.. kept looking ard.. But LL said baby this age can't see anything one... have to wait another 2 more weeks... heard him cry too that night.. maybe cos his guy, his wail is with strength... WQ and LL took turn carrying him.. At times when LL is crying Jovan, Jovin will "撒娇" and wanna LL to carry her too.. This is wat I called jealously and attention seeking.. My MIL says it is all part and parcel of growing up...

Had a special time with Jovin too.. Taught her to play our childhood game.. Fishing.. guessed she is still a little too young.. Not patient enough.. Instead of using the fish hook, she emptied the fish via hand... Tried to distraught her when LL is busy carrying Jovan too.. Taught her to recognise characters of Winnie The Pooh.. She got Pooh correct.. Said that is bear bear.. But poor Tigger.. She claimed that it is “老鼠".. maybe it is her prouncation.. she could tall that Tigger is actually Tiger but can't pronuce that as "老虎".. Poor tigger.. reduced from something so fierce to hmm.. a rat... Pigger is worse.. Jovin identified him as rabbit.. Muz be the long ears that Piglet have... ke ke ke..

That night was a great night spent @ our best couple's place in Bishan.. Looking forward to watching Jovin & Jovan grow up...

Irony : Bad news or good news

Bad news... bad news... The *malay guy* had escaped from the detention centre that he was in.. more than 6 days already and he had not yet been found... Hope he can be caught quickly...

But there is something irony abt his escpae... Not in big picture term.. Only within Lim family =
Dear is in ICT now.. Was scheduled to go Tekkong for a 3days exercise on full combat ration.. Was initially supposed to book in on Sunday night by 9pm.. Sunday afternoon, he got a call from his army mate.. Tekkong exercise all cancelled.. He called his driver to verify.. Seem like the active unit recalled all vehicles and weapons.. So with no weapon and vehicles, these *old reservists* can't make their way to Tekkong... Dear was able to book in on Monday morning.. Yippee.. Someone there to share the bed with me...

The supposedly "3 days exercise" was still there.. Not in Tekkong but in camp... Surviving on combat ration.. But due to "absence of work", the initial "shiong" ICT now become so relax.. Dear is grinning away happily... Still got time to play football... Get paid the amount of his commission somemore..

Look like bad news to country but gd news to just us =P