Embracing March

Shortest month of the year is coming to an end and my fav month of the year is coming!!!

No doubt on why it is my fav month, being my bday month, I can get alot of discounts heheh, this is aso the month when I  become a MRS. March indicates the start of spring and and even shops will start to sell colourful spring clothes.

I love how happie I will feel this month especially for 2 years straight, I am going to celebrate my bday/wedding anniversary overseas. Yippe ya ya yippe yippe ya..

Actually there will be no celebration, hehe just a getaway that is long overdued. I used to yearn to celebrate my bday, no matter cosy or noisy, I love plp rememebering my bday (who doesnt?) But then my bday ALWAYS falls on the march holidays and thus I didnt have a chance to celebrate in school like my classmates..envy envy...The most memorable 1 will have to be my poly days.ahhh realli missed those days :)

As I grew older, celebrations get lesser, my annual March babies celebrations with my sisters, dinner with family and lastly a quiet meal with hubs. Nothing fanciful..

This year, my bday wish is gonna be simple, hopefully it will come true. Now, I cannot divulge what is my wish as it is not my bday yet and yes, I believe by saying it will not come true.hee..

March, come quickly!!!!!

Happie spring all :)

Return of crazy week

Its the return of crazy work week..agggrrrr...Being a short month and with CNY holidays falling in this month, our working days are cut short. Not that I am complaining, but time is realli not on our side, luck isnt too.

My IT programmer who is employed help to sovle the system problems tat occurs after splitting of data from our sister company is not able to solve the problems. Results of this? I have to do manual data entry. Which means, I try to download whatever I can and pluck into the report format than go thru the entries 1 by 1 to fill in the empty details by referring back to our accounting system, you guess it 1 by 1 too.

How time consuming can it get? On top of it, I rushing out the payroll and taxes of Msian crews which are essential for their payroll. The worst thing is, there is alot of transferring of staff in between vessels and I need to ensure I pay the correct amount to them in 1 account as it makes no sense to pay to same account twice for different vessels.

The coordination, the amendments, the finalising took a long time. I was tired out by the whole thing.In view of my up coming vacation, I would need to rush to clear as much work as I can to ensure my back log would not flood me to death when I come back.

Aggrrr..headache as I type out this post. 1 more day to my NZ GST deadline...

Chinese New Year Day 14

It has been a busy Chinese New Year this year, all those visiting, eating, gathering, catching up. So much so that I haven found time to visit my newly born god son..Bleah...

Anyways, yest was our ex STE kakis annual gathering, it was the smallest of all year this time, with Chris calling in sick (dun wanna to spread to the kids), Xiong last min pull out with no reason (hmmmffff) and Shu Shu's lack of interest to attend due to a misunderstanding. Its is down to Jie Jie and me to go down to Didi's hse..

Was not happie with the attendance at all, especially didi & Aud woke up at 6.30am to do marketing, cracking their heads over what to buy, its a let down to the hosts, not to mentioned rude by pulling out at the eleventh hour.

Nevertheless, we went ahead with the plans, not wanting to spoil the mood. Arrived at 4pm since Didi asked me to babysit his son so that he & Aud can rest abit. Jie Jie aso reached early as she have to leave at 6.30pm for a 2nd round.

My cute Nephew-Isaiah

Man, my nephew is cute to the max!!! At 5 months, he can goo goo ahh ahh when I talked to him, many a times, he would rest his head on my breasts as in wanting milk(haha), or when I carried him in a upright position, he would place his hands on my breasts and pinching/squeezing it abit..

See his glance-迷死人！！

His mum was horrified by his actions, whahah saying that he took after his father..

In contrast of the scary stories I heard bout him being grumpy, he was a gem throughout my whole visit. He dun mind we taking turns to carrying him, looking at us intently with his big round eyes as we tok, making noise occasionally when he wanted attention. Even fell aslp twice as he was tired from waking up early.

We had our little hot pot gathering in peace as he was sleeping half the time or sitting with us quietly as we chatted over dinner.

Looking curiously into the basket of veggies

Still looking

Due to the absence of the guys, there were quite a lot of food left, doesnt help that Jie Jie is a small eater, luckily, Didi had a guy fwen over who helped to clear quite a bit of the food but still I heard, there was half left in the fridge. Even I was paiseh as I had initiated this gathering but the attendance was disappointing.

Our improvised hotpot- A rice cooker

I stayed on to help pull the little guy to sleep while didi chat with his fwen. Had a long chat with Aud on my miscariage, her miscarriages, challenges to adapt to motherhood and of cuz complaints about our hubs.It was as goood 2hrs chat, hoped that I helped to clear some of her issues too. Its never easy to be a wife, mother and daughter in law at the same time but I think she did a good job.

His mum trying to make him show fingers to the 2 uncles who pangseh us..

Huh?

GONG XI GONG XI GONG XI NI..

Went home ard 10pm when Mr Love picked me up after his gathering at Boon's place. Was tired and aching all over from carrying the little 1 for prolonged hours. Till the next time then. I oredi miss my little nephew. hee.

Bath time!!

Spring I love you Best.

Another song from "A Gentlemen's diginity" from Big Baby driver..Love her singing!

I wish I had someone who suddenly arrive
And show me how the flowers grow and come out in winter field
I wish I had someone new tender to my heart
Someone who will share me precious time

Someday you will find me in the hands of wind
Somehow you will lead me to the warmer nights
Someday you will find me in the hands of wind
Somehow you will lead me to the warmer nights

If I had pretty spring at the corner of my heart
I will say goodbye to winter land, you so cruel the winter wind
and I will check the through the phone, the number is 131
Don’t you know the truth is in fine weather

(I love you best)
(I love you best)
Someday you (I love you best) will find me in the hands of wind
Somehow you (I love you best) will lead me to the warmer nights
Someday you (I love you best) will find me in the hands of wind
Somehow you (I love you best) will lead me to the warmer nights

Young or Old?

Yest was V-day and we didnt have any celebrations, past the dating stages, long into the married life, so ya, no more celebration..No really a bad thing though, still remember our early dating years, when we will go for a celebration only to find ourselves squeezing/fightin with other couples for a place to eat.

Since we take dinner almost daily together, there is no difference between V-day dinner or normal dinner.

 Anyways, mummy told me a joke yest. She went dinner with my old bean (daddy) and saw a handful of gals holding flowers on the way. She told old bean tat hubs & I would be somewhere celebrating V-day(wrong!) and he would have given me flowers(wrong again!). She was whinning that she got nothing on V-day (hur hur).

Then they past a florist in Lot 1 after dinner. Remembering her words, my old bean went up to enquire the price of a bear holding 1 stalk of rose. He pointed to it and asked the sales girl "How much". The sales girl then took a look at him, ignored him and went to serve another customer.

Mummy nearly died of luffing there, she gotta pulled my old bean away before he flew into a rage at the sales who ignored him.

Mummy exact words to him is" she see u this old man asking, sure noe u ask for fun 1. Thats y ignored u lo.."I tink my old bean will neber attempt to buy flowers again..whahah

Ah Boys to Men...

I muz admit, I dun usually watch chinese movies in cinemas, will choose a Hollywood blockbuster over it any day, much less a local movie. Since hubs had heard very good reviews on this show, we decided to catch part 1..

It didnt disappoint us though, the show was hilarious and since its about the army, hubs can relate to the show better having serve in commando years back during active.

Part 1 was more about how the kid in the show feels about going for his national service and how he tried means and ways to get out of it, or serve with the least effort. They aso showed how the army was being run in the 1970s.Which is a far cry from the standards now.

Looking at this, hubs was neber angry at the fact that he needs to serve our army for 2yrs2mths, in fact I can still rememeber him being excited of being selected for commando unit. He was looking forward to serving..

Caught part 2 yesterday, in this sequel, they shed more lights on the training of modern days. How the soldiers deal with their training, get along with 1 another,how plp from all walks of life learnt to work as a team...

Looking at the part when 1 guy got dumped by his gf while in army makes me recall our dating days. Hubs was especially sticky to me. From the minute he booked out, right up to the minute he booked in, he wanted to stay close to me. Thus, typically my sat starts with staring into space in either Pasir Ris or Tampines library for hours while waitin for him to book out, make the journey back to his home with him, stayed at his place till sun and then travel to pasir ris with him again when he book in before returning home.

Never once in a wk, I skipped this routine. On wkday nights, he would called me on whatever little time he is allowed to make calls..Sometimes, he would have nothing much to tell me, but still I think its a relieve/assurance to him that I will be at the other end of the line, toking/listening to him..

2yrs n 2 mths passed juz like tat, looking back, it was a tiring period and I can feel how helpless he is about our relationship while in the army as there is only so much time he can spend with me. On the other hand, I can also sense that he is trying hard to get use to army life. Not known to be a sociable person, he now have to get use to stay together with total strangers 5 1/2 days per week. Learn with them, eat with them, shit with them, sleep with them, get scolding with them etc etc.

Its a sressful period for him too, trying to adjust to life inside and especially inside a commando camp no less. I can feel his sense of accomplishment on the day he got presented with his red beret, making him a full trained commando. Months of training, hundreds if not thousands of tots of giving up, he preserved till the end though his physical fitness is 1 of the poorer 1, he is still considered 1 of the weaker links till now..

I can still rememebered his commander's speech during his red beret ceremory, thanking his family members for their support and not forgetting the girlfriends who sticked with them during the training months. How true it is, for hubs had seen cases of breaking up during their training period, and every1 feared when would be their turn, no matter how confident you are in the relationship.To make things worst, their usual punishment during initial training stage is to book out late and book in early so that you will learnt to do your things well if you wan the extra time outside.

Ahh...The memories it brought back while watching the shows..The stories hubs would tell me every wkend if not nitez, the various trainings he would describe, his fear of going to his air borne course, I would had to listen intently to his stories as I am the only listener he has, he dun even share the stories with his brother, let alone, parents..I'm glad that I was part of his story while he was serving our army, glad that I get to see his changes from student to army guy to working adult to husband and hopefully a father.

The NS stories that every Singaporean son has to share is the stories of  tears, sweat and an important learning journey for them. I'm proud to say that my hubby had once served the elite forces of the army and made it thru their training :)

You are everywhere..

Fell in love with this song after watching "A gentlemen's Dignity". Had not watched Kdramas for a long time, concentrating on HKdramas instead. This is a muz watch!! 

I know something’s gone awry but I feel like going on
I know I could be wrong but I also could be right
And I feel the earth is turning faster before I saw you there
I feel the sky is spinning lighter before I saw you there
And I see the things are not the same again
Cause you’re here cause you’re there cause you’re everywhere
Now I know how my times can be still in the way
Hope this could last until we find brighter days
I know how my times can be still in the way
I hoping this could last until we fade away
I know something’s gone awry but I feel like going on
I know I need to say good bye for I’m off for the brand new days with you

Old wives' tales..

Being chinese, I should say we cannot avoid some superstitious beliefs, especially with our mums nagging beside us. I had 2, my own and my hubs' who passed their beliefs to me, hoping I can follow the customs.


米桶 aka rice container

We believe that rice container should be full so as to ensure that we have abundant rice to eat throughout the year. As we do not do much cooking, so I filled it to 3/4 full, okie la, at least did fill up rite?

My 3/4full 米桶

冰箱 aka fridge

Actually there is no old wives' tale to fill up the fridge I think, but then we muz at least store fish (年年有余）, chickie, met & seafood...Not sure of the meaning behind them but then, I did as wat I was told. Woke up at 6.30am 1 fine sat morning to do the marketing. A funnie sight though, walking in the wet markets with all the aunties..Man, I am an auntie now aso rite?

Tupperwares filled with the food I brought

 蒜

Its some onion like looking veggie that has the same prounication with "算" which means count in mandarin. By hanging 5 stalks (at the insistent of my 2 mum) it means get to count in hokkien. I took quite a long time to figure out where to hand them in my kitchen..hur hur...

Can you count 5 stalks of them?

Wardrobe

No 1 told me this, and I came up with it myself. heee... I make sure I did all the ironing and filled my wardrobe to its brim. To me, this has the same theory as the rice container, tat is to ensure I have abundant of clothes to wear throughout the year. This is especially important to me..hehehe..So there, I have just added 1 more tale to the old wives' tales.

My bursting wardrobe

Spring is coming....

In a blink of eyes, CNY is juz around the corner. January had past and the worst is over. I seriously did not know how I manage to got thru January. Bonus and increment came, not as good as expected but nevertheless thankful for the extra cash I got to spend for the upcoming new year.

The stress of work put a strain on me, so much so that I dun even want to face the PC when I got home and that explains the lack of post and any interesting things to blog about as its all about work and more work.

Preparing for CNY during the wkend makes me even more tired than work days. Endless washing, cleaning, ironing, tidying..Man, this once in a year job took me 4wkends and I am still able to find someting I had not done every time I walked ard the hse.

But we are excited this year, as this is the 1st year we are having the whole hse to us ever since we shifted in 5years ago and I went crazy in the buying the CNY goodies cuz finally I can place in the living room...whahaha and the both us grew fatter by eating them even before new year is here. hur hur so much for running..

 On a happier note, tix and hotels for Taiwan trip is booked and confirmed. It will be a bday trip again and our 5th yr wedding anniversary. I am going to see my long waited calla lilies...had always wanted to see them but hubs wun visit during spring becuz of not so cool weather..bleahh...

Okie, back to my spring cleaning plans..Ironing the new clothes up next!