Our new car!

*zHigUo + xiNhUi = kUkU & LaLa *

Today I had to wake up earlier for work because I had a appointment with one of our designers and her client. This appointment gave me the opportunity to see Singapore marina bay from a totally different point of view. It was actually at this new apartment, The Sail, located at Marina Boulevard.

What's awesome about it was that the client's penthouse was on the 68th floor. When you step into the apartment your attention would be on the whole stretch of full length windows. It was a breathtaking sight as you can see the whole CBD area, the Fullerton, the esplanade, and of course Sentosa. On top of that, the Singapore Flyer looks so short and minor to me.

Nice Scenery from 68th floor @ The Sail

One can really feel envious that the owner gets to see this beautiful sight every single day, especially when you imagine waking up to a beautiful scenery every morning, it just brightens your day. But of course a breathtaking price tag comes along with the breathtaking sight...

Sometimes I'm so glad that my job allows me to visit my client's homes and see how they beautifully decorate their homes. But, I still hate my boss, so I will still change my job asap. Wahaha!

Baby finally got his car today!! Yipee!!

there goes 2008... here comes 2009!!

Wow, two more days and 2008 is over.. I'm actually looking forward to a promising and brighter year ahead as I really want to make some changes in my life goals and prospects.

Will talk about my prospects and new year resolution in my next blog... Will be going to Lao da's place tomorrow night to celebrate his birthday, and also belated one for ambrose and dan. Then on new year's eve, we have BBQ at temple with my friends and family members.. Yeh!

Baby's car plate number is 2414. Didn't really like it when he told me, but we have no choice leh, because it's computer generated de, and if we want to bid for our preferred number, will need to spend $300 administration fee, and a minimum bid of $1000 for the number we want. Both of us feel that it's not worthwhile, and for this money, we could install another bodykit liao.

So, we will just stick to this number lor.. Anyway who cares about the number, it's just a car plate number after all... So eager for the car to be handled over to us... Should be these few days liao...

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choco choco...late!

I've not been guai enough to blog as often lately.. There's so many things I want to blog about, but just don't seem to have the time.

Christmas day was nice and pleasant, spend whole evening at grandpa's place, tried the turkey that we bought from ntuc and it was actually quite nice, because it was prepared with seasoning and cook beforehand, and then vaccumed sealed and chilled to maintain the freshness.. Yummy yummy! I was trying the home style chocolate fondue with my little cousins, and it tasted as good as those we eat outside. You just need some dark chocolates and a pocerlein container with a candle below, and melt the chocs till they are gluey, but remember to add some fresh milk constantly as the chocs alone are too dry.. And wahlah! You have your homemade fondue.

Next time baby and I will get one set for our own home.. Yipee!

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Christmas Together 2008~

*zHigUo + xiNhUi = kUkU & LaLa *

The first 20 minutes of Christmas day just passed by... Merry Christmas to everyone I know and of course I've already said that to my Baby.

We went to have our dinner at Aston Express @ Serangoon Gardens. Mommy's shop is just 3 minutes walk away from that store but it's the first time we patronized it. Well, though we got alot of positive critics for this franchise branch of Aston, we found the food not as marvelous. We still preferred the Black Pepper Hot Plate Steak from the coffee shop beside Baby's office.

This year, everything for us is low key, not to mention this Christmas. We both decided not to waste money buying gifts for each other, because we buy surprise gifts for each other now and then, and we wanted to save more money now that we have a new car coming.

Last week we ordered a turkey set from NTUC, and intended to have a Christmas feast at home on Christmas day itself. But mommy suggested we bring along the Turkey to Grandpa's home to celebrate with my aunties and uncles. Well, we were all cool about it, thats the whole idea of Christmas, the more people the merrier, that's why we say Merry Christmas!

I guess when people reach the age of maturity, we tend to not go to places which are crowded, or noisy, especially during festive periods. In the past we would go clubbing, ktv, or orchard road and squeeze with others for the countdown party, but now, we basically just avoid places like that. Well, others can say that we are "old" liao, but I don't see anything wrong about that.

I feel that it doesn't matter how people think about what you do, or say, or decide with things in life. What's important is that we are contented with our choices, with what we did, what we wanted, and things we achieved. It's the same logic with grabbing sand with your bare hands, the harder you try to squeeze your palms, the more sand flows out instead. If some things aren't ours', then just let it be~

bye bye kuku car....

Our intentions to change our car finally turned into reality. We went through time consuming application of the car loan for our new car, and then there was the bidding of COE. On top of that, baby had to post his old kuku car on the internet and try his luck in fetching a better price.

In the midst of all these applications, trying and waiting, we did once gave up the thought of buying the new car. PaPä kept discouraging us as he thinks that we can wait till the car prices drop again. We were confused, excited, fustrated and then annoyed. Then, the papers published the announcement of back being more strict with car loans, and the increament of interst rates.

We were given the choice to buy the car with our already approved bank loan and lower interest rate, get cash back from our dealer and enjoy the special priced advante, or, we could give up the thought of buying a new car for years to come.

Well, we had to change our car from off peak to normal, and we found a buyer who's willing to offer a higher price than our dealer, so we went ahead with our initial plans.

Its very likely that we won't be getting our new car by this month, but our buyer for our old kuku car wants to deal in the shortest time possible. So off goes our kuku car today.... It was pretty last minute for the handover, because we wanted to use our kuku car over the Christmas holidays. Baby had to clear our kukus and barangs yesterday, and I couldn't help him because I had to attend my company dinner.

When we had the car, I always complained that it was a off peak car, and I didn't really loved the color, red. But now that the car has been handed over, I feel very sad, and couldn't bare the thought that it belongs to some stranger. My kukus are homeless now, and their new home will only be ready only probably in 2 to 3 weeks.

I miss our old kuku car, because it was our first car together, but baby say the new car will be bigger, more energy saving, and it's not black liao.. =( I miss kuku..!!

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Ip Man

Last night baby and I went to watch Ip Man (Ye When).

Initially I wasn't so keen in watching this movie because I didn't know who exactly ip man was and what the story was about. But baby told me ip man is actually Bruce lee's coach, and it's a true story inspired movie, on top of that, the main actor was our idol Donnie Yen.

It turned out to be a terrific, inspiring, touching, exciting and thrilling movie. Both of us was so glad and satisfied that we went to watch this movie.

Till now my mind still cannot move on from the scenes when master ip heroically defend his wife from the baddies Japanese soldiers, to the time master ip fought with the Japanese general, and got shot in his shoulder after he won. Thank god he didn't die and managed to escape from Fo Shan to Hong kong to live a new life and fulfil his life long dreams.

I truely admire the way he respected his wife, and his calm character towards every situation. The sense of satisfaction you get from this movie is that it's not a legend or myth, it's about the true life story of a inspiring heroic man who has his own set of martial skills known as Yong Chin Quan.

This movie will definately be our all time favourites.

The movie is adapted from the life story of Ip Man, the grand master of the Wing Chun style of Kung Fu and Sifu (master) of legendary Kung Fu superstar Bruce Lee.

Ip Man - martial arts unyielding follower, whole-heartedly devotee to the free learning of Wushu. The fight to be top between the Wushu schools in the southern and northern regions of China did not stop him from goodwill matches with other practitioners. Nationalistic bad feelings and racial hatred did not lessen his respect for Japanese Kung Fu warriors. In a great era of hate and tragedies, Ip focused only on Wushu. His enthusiasm for martial arts saw led to devastating street fights with various elite practitioners.

To this date, neither movies nor publications about Ip Man exist. This movie is the first important record of the masters life. Ips persistent devotion to Wing Chun is a classic example of the love and respect for Wushu and the freedom and spirit it represents.

I need a job!

It has been a tedious crazy week for me. It is confirmed that my fucker superior is really a true crazy out of mind fucker! Who ever I talked about what happened to me agreed that my superior was really very ridiculous and plain insane!!!

My patience has reached it's limit, just like the water over boiling and the kettle screeching at the top of it's voice. I'm seriously job hunting now, will be very difficult due to the economic crisis, but I have the support from my family, friends, my baby, and even my close colleagues. Our secretary told me that she found it amazing that I can tahan until today... And the senior colleagues said that I am another victim being forced out of the company by that fucker.

Christmas is just a week away and I won't let that idiot's insanity spoil my holiday mood. I will just go to work, finish my work, leave on time until I find a new job, kick his ass and say good bye fucker!!

Not sure how we are celebrating Christmas, but hanging out with my family and baby at home is the kind of thing I like to do.

But anyway we already have alot of programmes lined up for the coming week...

I must remind myself to blog, because I tend to delay too many days and forget what I want to blog about in the first place.

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oh, it's a girl!

A long weekend just passed by, a long weekend indeed. Except for Saturday, I had to work everday. Sometimes I just find it unfair why others can enjoy their holidays, while I still have work. But when I awake to reality, it's hard not to remind myself that every job has got it's "happy" and "unhappy" factor, "fairness" and "unfairness".

We must be contented with what we have, but also, in our part, find ways to improve our lives.

We went to Cheri Kids to buy gifts for my new born niece amanda. When we stepped into the shop, there were so many things we wanted to buy, all so adorable and tiny. There were some ready wrapped hampers displayed, but I didn't liked any of them. So baby and I hand picked every item, to make our very own baby shower gift hamper. I choose a minnie mouse soft toy as the icing on the cake because she was born in the year of rat, and the pink minnie mouse just matched my pinkie hamper.

We really spent a long time in the shop, but we were both so happy and thrilled. It's so amazing the number of stuffs you can get for kids.

Amanda baby shower is this Sunday, so looking forward for the day, meanwhile, we will be quite busy these few days.

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Christmas is in the air!

A long weekend just passed by, a long weekend indeed. Except for Saturday, I had to work everday. Sometimes I just find it unfair why others can enjoy their holidays, while I still have work. But when I awake to reality, it's hard not to remind myself that every job has got it's "happy" and "unhappy" factor, "fairness" and "unfairness".

We must be contented with what we have, but also, in our part, find ways to improve our lives.

We went to Cheri Kids to buy gifts for my new born niece amanda. When we stepped into the shop, there were so many things we wanted to buy, all so adorable and tiny. There were some ready wrapped hampers displayed, but I didn't liked any of them. So baby and I hand picked every item, to make our very own baby shower gift hamper. I choose a minnie mouse soft toy as the icing on the cake because she was born in the year of rat, and the pink minnie mouse just matched my pinkie hamper.

We really spent a long time in the shop, but we were both so happy and thrilled. It's so amazing the number of stuffs you can get for kids.

Amanda baby shower is this Sunday, so looking forward for the day, meanwhile, we will be quite busy these few days.

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Steaky Day~

Yesterday I went for a meet up interview at JAC recruitment.

The company is a multi national japan based recruitment agency. Very large and impressive office I would say, hope that they get me a new job soon. Actually a part of me can't bare to leave my current company, but another part of me wants to wait for the year end bonus before I leave. Hmm, I guess such mentality comes to you when you desperately want to leave your sucky company but on the other hand fully utilize their benefits... Haha

After work, baby brought me to the coffee shop opposite his office to try the black pepper steak hot plate which he sees many people eating everyday. It turned out great! The steak was a thick slice, and along with it was fries, mashpotato, brocolli, carrot, a koropoke, and alot alot of very tasty black pepper sauce. The sauce tasted so nice, seems like the uncle cooked the sauce with lots of onion for a very long time, as most of the onion melted into the sauce. Yummy!

The Steak was really worth the price, only @ $10.

Today, I made a breakthrough! I went jogging with baby after work. I think the last time I jogged was 2-3 years back, but baby was so sweet, because I told him my stamina wasn't very good, he taught me to jog at my comfortable pace and he was by my side encouraging all the time.

I know this isn't very easy for a jogger like baby. He loves to jog, and does very well, which is a known fact for everybody who knows him. So I know it's not easy to slow down his own pace to accomodate to me. He was thrilled when I initiated for the jog, and planned for us to jog often weekly, then I can slowly increase my pace and jog for more kilometers as time goes.. Yeh! Go go go!

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