My favorite korean dramas!

*zHigUo + xiNhUi = kUkU & LaLa *

Recently I have been staying at home during weekends. I'm not doing so to shut myself from the outside world. I've been staying at home to watch my favorite korean dramas.

Recently, channel u has been airing a new korean drama series "Boys Over Flower" on Saturdays evening 9.30pm. It's actually a story of the famous Japanese comic, which was what the drama was named after.

New Korean Drama - Boys Over Flower

I'm starting to fall in love with this drama as I used to watch the Taiwan version of Meteor Garden and I just loved it. Though the storyline with the Korean version is slightly different to that in the Taiwan's version, I quite like it as it gives me a fresh feeling when I'm watching. However, I can't help but feel that the way the drama was shot is rather similar to that in my favorite drama, "Gong". I guess probably the director is the same person.

My Favorite drama, "Gong".

I'm actually a Korean drama fanatic since my schooling days. I've watched several dramas, such as My Sassy Princess - "Gong", "My name is Jin San Soon", "Little Bride", and many many more which I can't remember now.

I will usually buy the dvds and practically watch these drams over and over again, and never get bored of the story lines. I don't know why but I'll just get very emotional when I watch these love dramas. I will be so enchanted and affected by what's happening in the story, especially during those touching moments.

When I'm watching the exciting "moments", I'll have this adrenaline feeling in the back of my head.... Just so exciting!

I feel that watching dramas is a great pass time activity, especially when one is having holidays or just want to rest at home but still enjoy herself. I have a set of dvd for each drama that I like, so that in the future I can take these dvds out again to re-watch. I guess I won't have the patience to wait every week for channel u to air the "boys over flower". I will go and get a set of it's dvd soon!

It's a Pass!

*zHigUo + xiNhUi = kUkU & LaLa *

Today I went to take my Basic Theory Test after work. It's is actually my first attempt for this test and I got a Pass! I'm thrilled!

I'm quite proud of myself as I managed to pass on my first attempt. On top of that, I didn't took up any e-trial tests with the school, so I totally had no idea what the questions would be like. And I also didn't really study much, I basically only read through everything in the book a night before the test.

To be honest, the 50 questions were pretty simple, and not tricky. Some were more of common sense basis. Moreover, my colleague told me that as I'm a daily passenger on baby's car, I will be more familiar with the signs and right of way on the roads. That's pretty true actually, as there are alot of things that I remember based on my experiences gathered while on the roads with baby.

Now that my BTT has passed, I'm going to book for my Advance theory test and Provisional Driving license. Then the learning process will start rolling....!!!

Driving driving driving...!!!

Japan Oishi!

*zHigUo + xiNhUi = kUkU & LaLa *

Today Siong siong returned from his Japan trip. He bought lots of yummies and a pressie for me.

Their packaging for their yummies are always so nicely wrapped!...Tasty for the eyes and mouth!

Doesn't this look familar? It's the red bean cake "tong luo shao" that Doreamon loves to eat! It's so spongy and tasty! No wander the famous blue cat loves it!

My pressie is actually a fortune cat, the type which brings me wealth. The fortune cat originated from Japan, so since siong siong is travelling there, I asked him to buy me one. I seriously need some luck in my work....

My Fortune Cat! Very Cute neh!

Deadlines are nearing and I still cannot reach my quota. It's really very nerve racking and stressing. Somemore we have to juggle with two projects at a time. I'm starting to worry about my ability to handle this job. I know it's very pessimistic to have such mindset. It's likes quitting after meeting with little setbacks. But I just can't help but worry about my future, how the job would affect my life, how tired I would be after each day's work, how can I copt with the demoralizing moments...

Well, Baby told me every job has its' setbacks and demoralizing moments. I don't deny this fact as I've had such experiences in my previous jobs. Now, what I should do is work hard and give it all that I have. Baby said, the most important is that I know that I have given my best shot, this way, I won't have to feel regrets as I've really worked hard, just that the results aren't to our favour.

Holiday moody....!

Recently, I've been rather lazy.. Or should I say, nua.

I tend to be more reluctant to do the things I would usually do, like blogging, doing my own manicure and pedicure, reading, going online... etc etc...

I would have the tendancy of going home everyday after work to have my dinner, than lye on the bed and watch tv. I also don't go for sports activities despite the fact that I promised myself and baby I would do so...

Why ah? Issit because I'm too tired after travelling around to meet clients all day? Or issit I'm just too heck care liao? Well, I'm not sure which is the reason, but I do know I've been having the holiday mood swings lately.

My friends just came back from their Japan and Taiwan trip, and I was so affected by their post holiday excitement. Somemore my brother is in Japan now enjoying his graduation trip...

Argh!! I really feel like going for holiday, but I know now is not possible, not for the next few months. Because I just started working in my current company, and I don't have any leave at all. Boo hoo...

But to comfort myself, i'm constantly reminded that now is not the right time to travel. The H1N1 flu is still spreading across the countries now, and the risk is still there if I travel. Somemore if I visit those affected countries, my company will make me go on self qurantine for a few days. That's additional unpaid leaves leh... So... No no no.. no holiday for me now...

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Just another day....

*zHigUo + xiNhUi = kUkU & LaLa *

I have been so stressed up for the past week, and did not have any mood to blog at all.... Sometimes I wonder why I get so stressed up with my work, to the extent that I get lost.... Lost in a world of my own. I start to imagine things, and judge myself for what ever I do.

I guess this is part and parcel of every one's life, or should I say, every one's job.

Baby and I have been eating out for dinners for the past week. Because Baby cannot enter my house until Saturday, we could only meet when he fetches me to work and after work when we have dinner together. It's actually quite boring to eat out everyday. I like to eat home cooked food, because home cooked foods are usually healthier, and definitely much more cleaner than outside food. For every meal, mum will also boil soup for us to drink. It's good for the skin and body too!

I have been trying many new cosmetic products lately. Firstly, it's the new Define A Line eye liner by Mayberlline.

New Best Seller Eye Liner by Maybelline

It's actually claimed to be their best seller eye liner, and it comes along with a cute easy to apply brush. I tried it for the first time and found that it's really good. It was really easy to apply, and you could control the thickness of the line. It's smudge proof and water proof, which was important for me as I'm constantly on the move and sweating is inevitable. Overall, my review is... no wonder it's their Japan best seller!

Next, I bought another product from Maybelline, which is their VolumExpress Hyper Curl Cats Eye Mascara. It was really easy to apply, with it's fine, short and pointed brush, especially for short lashes Asians like me. It took less than 3 brush to give my lashes the volume I need. But for length wise, it didn't increase much though. It was fine until I wore it for half a day, that I started seeing slight panda rings on the bottom of my eyes. It claims to be smudge proof, and water proof, but seems like it's not sweat and heat proof. It was also more difficult to remove as compared to my previous mascara. But well, since I bought it liao, I will try to finish it until I found a better replacement, or use my previous mascara.

VolumExpress Hyper Curl Cats Eye Mascara

Actually I had been using Dejavu Fiberwig Mascara for years, if I remember. It always worked fine on me as it is water resistant, rather then water proof. Basically, it doesn't give me the panda eyes after wearing it for half a day, despite how much I sweat or tear.

It actually works like a wig, as it lengthens the lashes. Lengthening as in, really long. It is damn easy to remove, as claimed in their directions on the packaging. Basically you just need warm water and the fake lashes comes off in clumps. The only thing is that, it has a big brush, so I would often apply onto my eye lids when I'm in a rush. But, with the help of a cotton bud and some water, the "missed" applications comes off in a seconds. The only thing is that it only lengthens, and doesn't give my lashes the volume that I need. And often when I'm wearing it during the day, bits of the fake lashes tend to wear off, and I can find bits of fake lashes on my cheek or below my eyes.

Dejavu Fiberwig Mascara

I guess as people always say, nothing is perfect in this world. I'll just have to continue my search for the next better mascara!!

Swine Flu....Oink

*zHigUo + xiNhUi = kUkU & LaLa *

Recently everybody's topic during "sit-down chats" are about the Swine Flu, or correctly, the Influenza Flu. It's inevitable to talk about this new deadly disease after what happened during the SARS period few years back ago. It took away several lives and separated families.

Though my memory of the SARS period is rather vague, I can still remember how dangerous and how scary it is. Now that a new pandemic is growing, we really have to be very careful. Especially when you are in the public, you have to take note of people in your surrounding. Not that we have to treat everybody else as a sick person or what, but we have got to be responsible for our heath.

Sick people should stay at home and rest, and not force themselves to go work, if not, you might just pass the virus to somebody else.

Yesterday evening, I just found out that Ah Gong had been admitted to the hospital. I got so shocked and frantic when my cousin told me about it. Ah Gong was having breathing problems on Sunday night, and my cousins admitted him to Tan Tock Seng immediately. Doctor said there was water in his lungs, so they had to pump it out. Luckily he was feeling better by afternoon time yesterday.

I grew up in a big family, staying with my Ah Gong, uncle, auntie, and cousins. So generally our bond is stronger. I still remember in the past when I was still a kid, Ah Gong would drive me around town in his Mercedes, playing his Hokkien songs. He would bring me to many places such as Chomp Chomp and Chinatown to eat good food. I still remember very clearly that I would always hold ah gong's thumb when I'm walking beside him. Ah Gong's hand is so rough and huge in the mind of a young and small me.

Ah gong has always been very healthy and active since I was young. Sometimes we don't understand how he gets all those energy, even a young teenager can't beat ah gong. And he is always the advanturous type, travelling to all parts of Singapore alone. Even now when he doesn't drive anymore, he would still travel alone by MRT and bus. It's quite impressive for an old man who doesn't even take public transport in the past. In fact, this is the first time Ah Gong got admitted to the hospital.

Now, we have to admit to reality that ah gong is old liao.... age is taking a toll on his health and body. I really hope and pray that Ah Gong's health will get better.

Yesterday I wanted to go visit Ah Gong, but now the hospital came up with alot of stupid rules lor. Firstly, you have to pass their front counters by showing your IC, stating your purpose of visit. If you are visiting a patient with your partner or family, you have to take turns, one by one to go upstairs to see the patient. So mah fan!!!

They even shortened the visiting hours to between 5-8pm. I reached at 8.03pm, and the security guard didn't allow me to go up liao. The most pissed off part was when I was queueing up to at the lift to go up, the queue did not moved at all. Then the guard just looked at us and talked to himself. Then I saw a notice board beside me stating that the visiting hours are between 5-8pm. Generally, Singaporeans' mentality, we would "try our luck" first, and so, I was trying my luck too, with a few other visitors in front and behind me. But the guard just simply ignored us, like we are transparent. Then after about 5 minutes later, a lady at the front of the queue asked the guard, and he just answered to her and she left the queue. Then he turned towards the back of the queue and talked towards nowhere, saying "I don't know why these people are still queueing here leh, they don't know how to read issit? visiting hours are over, still queue for what?"

What the hell!.... If you guys don't allow anymore visiting, just tell us lah! Don't let us queue there like nobody's business. The way he talk is so damn yaya, just pisses me off. When I told baby about it, he was so angry, and said that we should complain that idiot. Too bad I didn't noticed his name....bloody idiot....!!!!

It's good for the hospital to take precautionary measures, but they cannot treat people with such a bad attitude mah..... If you say nicely, people will just follow the rules what.... damn fucker leh....

Anyway, hope Ah Gong will get well and return home soon....

Not a long weekend...

*zHigUo + xiNhUi = kUkU & LaLa*

In a glimpse... the long weekend is going to be over....

Many things happened during this long weekend, things that we didn't anticipate. Baby's grandma passed away on the 30th, around 4.30pm in the afternoon. But it was only after work when we were at bishan, deciding what what to have to dinner, when his mom called and told us the news. Baby immediately looked very lost, and we didn't have anymore appetite liao. But baby still had to eat something before heading off to his grandma's house, so we went to the coffee and settle our dinner in a jitty.

Baby sent me home and headed off to fetch his mom to his grandma's place. It wasn't appropriate for me to go together as his grandma just passed away and she haven't been placed into the coffin yet. So I went home to inform mom and dad, but it wasn't a shocking news as we expected this sometime ago when the doctor said baby's grandma didn't have much time left. She was with similar condition as my grandma, they both had cancer, and they lost the battle against the evil cancer cells.

Last night I went to the wake with baby's car, hoping to help in anyway I could. Last night Baby's secondary school friends, and superiors came to the wake. I didn't manage to help much, only folded some joss paper, then had to help baby attend to his friends.

Today, baby received 5 blankets at the wake, you know, instead of wreaths, chinese likes to send blankets to wakes as a gesture of respect. The 5 blankets were sponsored by temple, my cousins, and my friends. Because they regarded Baby as a member of our temple, so they all chipped in to buy the blanket. This evening, daddy, mommy, and along with the temple uncles and aunties went to attend the wake too. Daddy said its only right to attend the wake, as last time when grandma passed away, baby came to help out everyday.

Baby is grateful to everyone, but mommy said he didn't need to say" thank you" to them as this is formality, and chinese beliefs says that such things no need to say thanks de.

I feel that in this phase of our life, we are experiencing alot of things. I feel that baby have been through alot of things with me, and our relationship have turned out even stronger and steady. I'm really glad that I met baby, and will be spending the rest of my life with him. I'm thankful of the fact that my parents and close friends recognise him as a very good husband to be of mine. I'm so proud of baby, and thankful for what I have now.

Anyway, Baby won't get to stay at my place for a week. Daddy says that he has to wait till next Saturday, which is the lunar fifteen, when we get an amulet from our god, then baby bathe with the amulet liao, then he can step into our house. I'll miss baby dearly.... it feels so uneasy when I have to sleep alone. I can't help but realise how important baby is to me....

Miss you baby!....Drink more water okie?....