1125. in the future

Rant of the day: Very full. I love homecook food.

Saw this while going through those funny emails...

Wife: Do you want dinner?
Husband: Sure! What are my choices?
Wife: Yes or no.
 
Hahaha... I hope my marriage life in the future ain't like this...

1124. nye

Rant of the day: Tired...

1 more day to the end of 2010!!! And I'm hoping 2011 will be alot better than 2010. In fact, 2010 wasn't exactly a good year. Lots of things happened like me fracturing my ankle, losing almost all chances to be a radio DJ and other office stuff with a particular co-worker.

Honestly, I'm tired but doesn't feel the same way? I always believe in "cry now and move on" in my life. Not because I take things lightly but rather, why cry over spilt milk? What's done cannot be undone. The pain is there but hey, we all gotta move on because time doesn't pause there for us to take a breather. Time doesn't turns back for us to choose another path. We can sulk and cry no doubt but not for a prolong period.

And yes, I believe in crying. Awwwwww... You will go "Eric is a cry baby" and I don't deny the fact that I cry but I seriously don't cry ALL the time. On the right occasion. On the right stuff. Crying really releases lots of stress... But don't over-do it.

Anyway, dear is having a tough fight for dignity and I'm support her all the way. I'm always there for you baby. You can do it. Even though you like peace but sometimes, we can't choose our battle. Since we can't choose it, we then have to face it bravely and we can do it together. Hugs.

On something lighter for this year end occasion, I'm going to spend my NYE at Timbre Substation! Woohoo~~~ And I so love this place. The ambient. The food. The people. Hate the queue though but luckily we managed to get reserve seats! Yeah!

Just sharing my favourite song for this month... 家後(Hokkien pronounce as geh au)by江蕙.

I rarely likes Hokkien song but this one really caught my ears. And it's super meaningful. Loves~~~

1123. gifts from europe

Joy of the day: Congrats Alan and Sin Yee! Cheers!!!

Mum is finally back from her Europe trip! Haven't gone through her photos yet but am totally swooning over the gifts she bought for me!

A MontBlanc full leather wallet. Singapore selling S$440. It's somewhat around the same price but after the tourist tax rebate there, it's slightly cheaper. So expensive that I really afraid of spoiling it...

A Calvin Klein reversible belt. I haven't find the same belt in Singapore yet but definitely cheaper there in Europe. I soooooooo like the monogram on both sides!

Too bad that mum can't get us stuff from Zara. She was saying it's almost everywhere but since we can't try our sizes, she rather not take the risk and buy stuff that we can't wear.

She got dear a Long Champ bag also. Same design not available in Singapore. Cool! Like the MontBlanc wallet, after conversation should be around the same price but minus off the rebate, it's cheaper there.

I wanna go Europe too! I want Zara (and I can literally hear dear screaming for Burberry when she sees this)!!!

1122. christmas this year

Rant of the day: Coughing ain't getting any better... =(

Christmas this year wasn't as homely as compared to last year. I was going through last year's Christmas Eve and Christmas Day photos and realised that on the eve, dear and I were having steamboat at Angela's place. Whereas for Christmas Day, it was dedicated purely for home. Ice cream at Andersons and dinner at home.

This year however, was somewhat different partly 'cause mother was in Europe, celebrating a real WHITE Christmas. And alot of gifts exchanges with friends and colleagues. Although I do admit that the feeling of giving was great (especially when everyone in my branch received the honey sticks and were so happy about it), but the process of getting the gifts were a f**king hell lotsa headache!!! That's the point I start to ponder "why the f**k people celebrate Christmas" and really felt so drained about the entire event.

Anyway, we still have the gift exchange as per usual in office but together with all the other food gifts received on the eve, my table was literally filled with all sorts of items:

• Towel set from Kim Chin.
• Namecard and matching keychain from Fang Ying.
• Bull dog handphone holder from Jingyi (gift exchange)
• Another keychain with letter "E" plus a box of chocolate from temp staff Ailing.
• More chocolates from Egon and Tasniyah.
• Hello Panda cracker from director.

The 2 boxes of preserved chayote (佛手果) from Ivan but wasn't meant Christmas. Was to aid in my voice recovery from all my coughing.

And after work, was lots of household chores before chilling out at Durty Nelly Irish Pub with dear, Arina and Liwei. Totally love the ambience but prolly not the hottest place for Christmas countdown. Still, we love it. Except that dear was running a fever and I was pretty worried.

Lovely presents from the Arina and Liwei too! The 2011 scheduler will be soooooo handy come next year. And I love the colour! PURPLE!!!

And Liwei gave me a pair of ear studs from Takashimaya. My gawd!!! It's so beautiful! Looks so much like diamonds! I am longing to own a new pair of blings to match my clothes! Wait... It's not real diamonds right? Else, it will be way too expensive to accept as a Christmas gift!!!

And my brother got me a gift too! It's a bag tag from Crocs! I guess he is expecting me to travel more in coming year. It's definitely gonna come in handy 'cause I always runs out of tags when I travel.

That's Christams for this year. A rather mild version of craziness in the same festive day I suppose.

1121. 冬至照过

Rant of the day: Falling sick...

妈妈在国外，并不代表冬至不用过。可能随着年龄的增长，慢慢觉得一些传统华人习俗其实相当重要。而冬至其实是要家家户户围炉吃火锅和汤圆。既然妈妈不在家，火锅也就很难再加吃成。没关系。Dear和我就打包了一些食物，回家弄一弄就可以了。

看上去，卖相还不错。哈哈！有煮排骨、鸡翅、起司香肠和蔬菜等。虽然多数是买现成的，但是感觉真的有一点小团圆。

Dear还弄了些汤圆！糖水超屌的！好喝！！！

羡慕吧？哈哈……Dear有贤妻的感觉了。哈哈……

1120. t'is the season

Rant of the day: X'mas present is not suppose to be stressful!!!

T'is the season to be spending.

花 (pronouce: hua) la la la la... la la la la...

T'is the season wallets burning.

花 la la la la... la la la la...

Don't complain now, take out Visa.

花 la la... 花 la la... la la la...

Don't forget buy that present.

花 la la la la... la la la la...

 

In case you are not to sure how to sing it, just go with the original melody of the X'mas carol "T'is the Season". And the "花" here refers to "spending" and not "flowers".

 

I like X'mas primarily because it's a public holiday and I get to rest at home with family or out chillaxing (chilling + relaxing) with my friends. But as we grow older, there seems to be a need to buy presents and exchange presents. And the search for the right present seriously sucks!!! It's doesn't help much when there is a designated person you are buying for and that person doesn't tells you what he/she wants!

 

Come on lah... You expect me to read your mind... I ain't no Professor X leh...

 

You might be thinking "it's the thoughts counts" but honestly, if you got something that you REALLY don't need and don't like, how would you feel and react? Put on a fake smile and says "oh it's soooooo nice!". And you know what, "nice" is not a nice word actually. To most extend, it's loosely used when we ran out of words to use.

 

So, don't use the word "nice" on me. I get pretty annoyed actually.

 

Anyway, this will be the first time I'm not spending X'mas with mum and she's far far away in Europe. Hope everything is fine. The weather report is not promising and I'm very worried that she cannot endure the cold.

 

*pray*

1119. wrong crowd

Rant of the day: Feeling bloated...

I'm not sure why I always attracts the wrong crowd.

Seriously, since secondary school days, I'm always the "babe" magnet but in my situation, the term "babe" is loosely used and is NOT the typical babe referred.

In secondary school, I'm the target for big boobs Malay ah lians. Remembered once before class starts in lower secondary, I was waiting for my classmates for a round of carrom or two (it was the most played game in my school back then). As I was going through my textbooks to see if I had missed out any assignments, a group of Malay girls surrounded me and brought me to a quiet alley. And they started caressing my thighs and butt. All I remembered was alot of yakking which I couldn't absorb. If you think I should be enjoying the process, I'm telling you this seriously scare the shit out of me back then!!! I'm only a secondary 2 student for goodness sake.

Then in the midst and after NS, not sure why girls (of not my type and in most cases, not the type guys look for) like me. When I say "not the type guys look for", you get what I mean. Out of nowhere, girls pass messages to their friends (also my friends in NS) that they like me. And out of nowhere, girls ask me to be their steady. Funny thing is pretty girls back then doesn't seems to fall for me except my dear. Ya, she's exceptionally attractive (to me at least).

And now, guys like me. Right... But I am really NOT into guys. I may not be the typical man kinda guy and I don't intend to purposely fake the "man-ness". I like to wear purple sometimes but only if it matches my clothes overall. I am who I am. I do admit that acting "gay" at times with my close friends are really just for fun. But that does not constitute me part of the pink society. So why am I getting weird looks from guys sometimes?

Alright. I shouldn't be complaining about me being "attractive" but to the wrong crowd. At least I am attractive in one way or another. Take it as a compliment...

1118. getting connected

Rant of the day: Year end coming...

I'd made my tweets private and only approved followers can view. I have the urge to delete my Facebook account because I feel it's no longer that personal. And I'm also considering either making my blog private or might as well, delete it too.

These new media and social media platform is no longer just a pure means to get connect, stay connected and be connected. It's now a stalking mechanism, kpo-ing avenue and a gossiping directory. Cheng just commented that I should go relax on words like "WTF" and "f**k" on Facebook and Twitter as we wouldn't know who is reading.

Scary? Yes. I felt INVADED in fact! I don't mind sharing my views, opinions and rants but if these are gonna affect my social and private life, then the invasion might had gone way too far.

Sometimes, what I need is just a place to let out my frustration but apparently, such simple nature platform had mutated. All these might just put me back into my emotional refrigerator.

1117. save money

Rant of the day: I need to exercise more!!!

Mum is leaving for Europe coming Monday for 2 weeks. Damn worrying 'cause many parts of Europe are having snowstorm and temperature is below tolerance level. Just hope that everything will be fine when she flies off in 2 days time.

This just sorta reminds me that I'm prolly skipping lots of long holiday trips in 2011 because I really need to save up for my flat and of course, wedding stuff... It's blardy hell expensive to get married now. We haven't really plan what we want to do for the banquet and stuff and guess what, already spent thousands on wedding photo packages. And when going through the magazines on the banquet prices, we will go like "oh my gawd" and "what the fuck"... Why so expensive?

This is totally  WHAT-THE-HELL!!!

For those of you who are considering getting married within this couple of years, do act fast before the prices soars again.

But I guess that everything is well spent on (for now minimally). At least I'm not getting most of my wedding photos shoot in Singapore or neighbouring countries. We are so going to Taiwan!!! It's what dear and I really wanted to do actually.
Talking about holidays in 2011, since I'm gonna skip long overseas vacations, I'm prolly gonna settle for the cheaper alternatives like Genting, KL or Bintan. No choice lah. What to do? At least I know I will not be spending thousands on places like these... Dear will understand... right? Sometimes, we just gotta find simple pleasures in life and not making it more unbearably. We can still find simple funs without burning our pockets.

Objective in 2011: SAVE MONEY!!!

I gotta remember to pen this down for my 2011 resolution!!! Hahahaha... ^^v

Anyway, just to share one of my favourite photo taken recently using my iPhone. The MBS.

Nice but haven't been inside yet. Too high crass for me (but actually is a bit too far to go)...

1116. scm comparison results

Rant of the day: I think I'm too fat. No, not think... I am fat!!!

I like what I see on the comparison chart for the 10km SCM. For those SCM runners, you can check these information here.

Anyway, end of the course on Situation Analysis. Fun? Ok, not to bad. But made a few really interesting friends from other ministries. They are really fun to be with. So life in gahmen bodies ain't that bad after all. There are still fun people around.

Cheers!!!

1115. false alarm

Joy of the day: Meeting ridiculously fun peeps during the customised course. Didn't know that SPF peeps are so friendly!!! =)

Mum gave me a scare this afternoon. She texts me "MC till friday. Cheken poo."

First thing to my mind, what on Earth did she get? She's only complaining about some "insect bites" on her waist and had been giving her much pain since last Friday. It's only Tuesday today and she's on MC till Friday! It's like 4 days of MC!!!

Next, what the heck is "cheken poo"? What is "cheken"? And it poop? Where and when did my mum comes in contact with this poo? Sort think that my mum meant... chicken pox. Hahahaha... But at her age, this viral infection might just cost her life! And she did had chicken pox the last time. Why again?

So rushed home after course and to my relief, it's herpes and not the deadly cheken poo. If you are not sure what is it, it's simply some sores from don't know what virus. All I know that it's more or less ok now. It's non-infectious already (but was very much infectious during the first few days). Still giving mum alot of pain.

She better recover fast 'cause her Europe trip is NEXT WEEK!!!

1114. we did it

Rant of the day: Having a bad abrasion from the arm band. Ouch...

We finally did it! We finally completed our first long distance run! Even though it's only 10km, still, the sense of accomplishment is overwhelming.

Seriously, for a first timer, it's really a challenge against the individual limits. At the 6km mark, I'm already on and off walking because even jogging SLOWLY was tough. Plus the sun was pretty scorching. Well, at least I completed it. Actual timing not out yet but definitely less than 1hr 30min.

We probably going for another 10km run in May next year, the Adidas Sundown 2011. Pending confirmation from dear's cousin. But it's slightly more costly than SCM. Hmmmmmmm... Maybe the race pack goodies are better? Not sure though.

Anyway, lovin' the finishing medal. Just look at the details!!!

And it's pretty heavy for such a small thing. So, aiming to complete a half marathon next... Gambatte!!!