After reading the bestie's entry, I decided to reflect on this past year. So here it goes, in 2008 I have:
1) graduated with 2nd class honours from LSE, University of London - like FINALLY!!! No more 3000-word essays!
2) entered the workforce and start earning my own moo-lah, no more allowances from my parents or elder brothers. Paying my own bills.
3) gone on a proper holiday with my darling Mr GT to Perth (not counting weekend getaways to neighbouring countries) and looking forward to more overseas holidays next year.
4) overcame drama like what the bestie said. Karma baby, you get what you give.
5) stopped clubbing. Have not set foot in a club in the whole entire year. Contrary to people thinking I am a wild party girl ( i have no idea where they get THAT idea from), I've been a good girl staying away from all forms of alcoholic drinks. And before that, it's not as if I am boozing away, just occasional drink here and there.
I suppose having gone clubbing/parting, and experimenting martinis, cocktails,margaritas etc between the age of 17-22, now I am more settled. I guess I am growing up.
It's better to do all these before I am married right. Like my mum said, "jangan nak buat giler" after marriage, must always preserve reputation of husband, self and family. So I guess I did purge all that out of my system and feel more settled now and just roll my eyes when I see people who have a late start in all these.
Especially if those people were the very people who preached high and all about religion and to see them doing the opposite, is so contradicting themselves. Tsk3.
6) spent SGD $12,040.62 as of this minute according to my Excel spreadsheet (haha, yes I still keep to it all this years). Hey at least I still keep within the $10K to $13K range.
7) curbed my shopping habit, very proud of not spending $500 in 1 shop in 15mins anymore.(still remember my darling's eyes bulging out when I did that)
8) gotten over the disappointment over my 2nd brother and his wife. Life has to go on. It's so much easier thinking that they do not exist.
9) learnt to be more patient and contented with life and honestly, life does look good from this perspective.
10) managed to better my relationships with my parents, 1st bro & sis-in-law, bestie, Mr GT and all the friends that matters to me, you girls and guys know who you are.
So that's all. I have yet to think of my new year resolutions. Will get back on that! Have a great Happy New Year everyone!
Merry X'mas to all those celebrating and those who just want to get into the festive mood. Like me! Love the lil xmas pressies so far from colleagues, far away mates (thanx, Zachary, I totally forgot about you! OOps! But gifts all the way frm Germany and from Max who is still trooping around in South Africa, go back and finish your studies in the US, geez! ) and from my darling of course.
Anyway what have I been up to besides last min Xmas shopping though frankly I am broke? Well last Sunday, attended Rozi's wedding! Congrats to Rozi and Helmi on your wedding, may you be blessed with a happy marriage with loads of love and laughter to accompany you throughout the rest of your life. Thanx for inviting me despite not having seen the babe since NYP graduation.
Here's some random pix:
What shall I do for New Year's Eve eh? I got a wedding dinner to attend at The Legends at Fort Canning, the dad's sort of relative/friend's son is getting married to a Chinese girl (Ooh and they got a new fab bungalow and really cute Persian cat (which reminds me of my cats, Scooby and Baby who passed away in the last 2 to 3yrs, sobz) and still yet to plan for what to do thereafter. Hmm...
I am going to go watch Twilight tomorrow!!! Whee! I can't wait. *grinz* And a whole day spin in the 1st bro's car!
PS: To those peeps who shamelessly asked me for free ZoukOut tix, sorry but just coz I gave them to you last year doesn't mean that I will automatically reserve them for you every year. Pfft. I gave them out WAY early to those who deserved it. And you obviously don't deserve them! (I hate people who contact you just to get freebies but disappear the rest of the year.)
Off to sleep now, I'm shagged after taking half-day to go visit Mr GT's grandma in JB to accompany my darling to pass a belated bday gift. And what a jam. I say Go Public, Don't Drive!
I have been posting up the status updates in my Facebook daily post lunch and last week was full of sleep inducing lunches and dinners.
Tuesday - colleagues ordered nasi lemak
Wednesday - KFC
Thursday - Carl's Jr
Friday - colleagues ordered chicken briyani
Saturday - Q-ed up for 1.5hr for 3 scoops of exclusive ice cream at Ben & Jerry's Chunk Fest at Fort Canning Green, good live bands too. Bumped into former colleague from Creative Technology,Faezah there.
Sunday - spent whole day at my darling Mr GT's grandma place. Trooped down to City Sq for Baskin Robbins ice creams. 3 freaking huge scoops for RM22, so worth it. Then of coz traditional dishes for eve of Hari Raya Haji
Monday - spent it with parents since I wasn't here during Hari Raya Puasa. More food! Managed to go watch Wild Child. Now stuck with the phrase "Who are we??" (in that preppy British school girl voice).still wondering what would happen to me if my parents did send me to Cheltenham Ladies College to do 'A' levels back then. I wouldn't have met Mr GT if I was there.
Sent the 1st brother off to the airport for his holiday to Brisbane. Now I have the use of his H. Civic for a week, whoopee! Since Mr GT is on 2 weeks leave, he'd be my personal chauffeur too.
I would have been able to go Brisbane if
not for the new job.
Eurgh, im having bad cramps. I hate that time of the month!
To my dear bestie, I am still alive! I got your email, will reply you with a rant of my own this weekend! =)
And with regards to the bestie's entry, so true now that you mention it, that whole me wearing MNG tee situation was blown out of proportion. The weird thing is I don't shop at Mango anymore, I can't even remember the last thing or time I went into the store. Hmm....but I still like their knits just like those at Zara as well.
Ok what have I been up to:
1) My dear Sharifah's mum passed away last Sunday after a fight with breast cancer. My condolences to her family. I visited her mum at SGH last Friday after work with Anna, Hasila and Huda.
2) On Saturday night went to Orchid Country Club for the wedding dinner of Din & Hajar. Din being Mr GT's SP and Dikir barat friend. Hajar is my 2nd sis in law's (shrek!) cousin and she was my senior back in NYP as well, just that she was in the Engineering side and active in tarian etc in MCG if I'm not wrong hence why we never met. But we seem to have mutual guy friends though.
So that was a 10 course dinner, I was so freaking full. Outfit for that night, my Future State black dress with a huge brooch pinned worn with the black floral lace tights from the bestie, complete with my black lace gloves (Yuyu babe, remember I got them when I was with you?? ), black Mary Janes and silver wristlet from River Island.
Din being a LTA in the army looks dashing in his ceremonial white military outfit and Hajar looks gorgeous as always like a princess.I know, I will upload pix soon.
Bumped into Fifi, who is Azizah from NYP's friend, they were always together back in poly days.And she happened to be the bridesmaid's best friend since sec school. AND the bridesmaid who is Hajar's sister (also 2nd SIL's cousin obv) used to date Mr GT's younger brother. Hmm...AND Mr GT's younger brother and his gf were the best man and 2nd bridesmaid respectively. The other best man was Hajar's younger brother. See, so intertwining.
3) Came back from the dinner, at 2am received the news from Sharifah. Was holding on to the hp, didn't know what to reply, couldn't sleep and at last fell asleep still holding the hp. Woke up and off to go "melawat" with the girls. Thereafter off to Din & Hajar's wedding to the guy's side to meet up with dear Elyn and Shahrul. =)
THEN was off to collect fabrics and then off to PS' Swensens to meet up with Azlin, Asri and lil Yana as well as my Cedar classmate, Kim Mui. To Kim Mui, who is off to Copenhagen,Denmark for work for the next 2 years, bon voyage. I'd miss you! Don't forget my Danish butter cookies courtesy of your company! =P
So yeap, that was my weekend. And I can't believe I have been working till 9.30pm++ the last 2 days. Sheesh.
At the rate I am going, I think I'd drop flat out of exhaustion. This last weekend was the same as the last as I had no rest. Since I was on 2 days MC where I had high fever, sore throat and later lost my voice (thank god for MSN communication at work). I recovered a lil of my voice by Saturday though, phew.
Friday night - watched Madagascar 2. It was ok, but I still prefer the first one, more original. Oh on this note, can I say enough about the whole 2 white tigers killing that zoo cleaner at Mandai Zoo already. He clearly wanted to commit suicide hence why he go and jumped into the freaking moat in the tigers' enclosure. And with their natural predator instinct and feeling protective of their territory and having been in captivity since 2001, you can't blame these Sumatran white tigers for attacking that guy. Geez. Why should there even be a debate over the tigers having to be put down? Nonsense!
Saturday - first it was off to Hani's house for her engagement. Congrats to Hani and Wandi!!! Yay! Hani was looking gorgeous in Royal Blue, though Mr GT, Suba and I were all togged out in Hani's favourite green colour. Finally bumped into J and the rest, Zana and Shalina, but too bad I couldn't stay long coz after the whole engagement process and eating, I was off to another wedding.
Was off to Juli and Rajis' wedding at Choa Chu Kang CC (if I am not wrong,hehe). I thought we were going to Rajis side on Sunday but apparently Mr GT wants to go to Juli's side too since she was his neighbour back in his Jurong days. And Juli was a senior in NYP too, what a small world, but she was from the Engineering side. Furthermore, I don't seem to mix with the girls from the other schools in NYP. Oh well but I seem to know more now when I am not in NYP anymore. weird.
Then it was off to Mr GT's place as they had a small gathering thingy.
Sunday - I was supposed to go with Mr GT to Rajis' place but since I already went yesterday I so need a couple of hours rest so I asked Mr GT to go ahead without me since his DK group will be performing anyway.
Met up with Mr GT's frenz gang at Marina Sq's Seoul Garden for dinner. Then we were off to taking loads of photos, complete with an SLR camera and tripod courtesy of Mr GT's younger brother, at the new Marina Barrage all the way till midnight, as if we were all not working today. But it was fun....fun waiting for the water to come out so we can get nice shots and also of jumping up and down to get motion shots. Heh. I heard about another photoshoot coming up...
I attended my company's Dinner & Dance last Saturday. The theme: Back to School. So my table came up with the idea of a symphony band, calling ourselves Solid Symphonix.
Yes, that's why the erm "mak2 budak" are dressed as budak2 sekolah. hehe. So cute right? I missed out on the pix of other tables, there are the NCC, the preppy sch, the sports club, convent girls etc. Even our Managing Director and his wife came togged in their table's dress code - NCC.
Venue: Sheraton Towers
Time: 6.30pm - 1.00am
Overall, it was FUN FUN FUN!!! Our table won the Best Dressed Table with another table, it was a tie since they couldn't make up their mind and we received $1000 vouchers. Full of games, with people buzzed with alcohol, it was so hilarious!! And after that it was dance time all the way past midnight.
Post effect: I had my time of the month come on Sunday, and it was a painful affair. Must be the free flow of Coke and the jumping up and down while dancing on stage. Oh well it was worth it!
On Sunday, Dyna invited me to her wedding, but when we arrived late due to the rain, I decided to just buzz my buddy, Ariff for Adi's address and go to the guy's side instead. Met the gorgeous bride and groom there and bumped into my buddy as well.Selamat Pengantin Baru to Dayana Asmalina (hehe, yes Dy, I just can't help spelling out your full name) and Yuhadi (I can't believed that Roslan tersasul Adi's name..sheesh!)!!
The nonsensical title is due to me trying to detox from the post effect of Raya open house last weekend. I've yet to upload the pix so no pix yet.
I've got my cousin's wedding coming up this weekend, that means more food! Haiz, after that I am so going to pay back my fast.
So last weekend, troop down to Abg Sarip KP place, yes I can never shake off that Kelana Purba part, I will always know him as such. Before that Mr GT and I were at Sengkang to drop by Cedar babe, Azlin's crib. Wow, how her daughter has grown...I think the next time I see her, she'd be walking already. =)
At Sarip's place it was dark hence we abandoned the bike there and troop into the car to Sengkang (again!) to Hashrin & Shilah's place where they were having Raya open house cum Aqil's 1st birthday bash. Loads of people and screaming kids. I was so afraid that the kids are going to climb onto the chairs and accidentally jump off since it was on a really high floor. Thereafter the 6 of us trooped down to Jalan Membina to Shahrul & Elyn's place for their Open House. Mr GT can't get over how Elyn and I squeal and giggled whenever we meet. Deal with it, hun.
Bump into Miss
Citra there..and when we were going back, Miss Citra was so khusyuk
habis tengok TV that she didn't realise I was there! Ish ish ish. ahakz.
It
was so funny at Elyn's place, there was this boy who was the insurance
agent's son or something and he refused to go back and sat with us in
the room when his mum called him.
And the mum thought he was smitten by me and told him "Sorry lah boy, kakak ni dah kene chope dengan abang ni. Kalau tak pun u kene tunggu lagi 20+ years." Kwang kwang kwang. And dear Elyn will be due next Jan, whee, can't wait!
I managed to drop by my primary school Cikgu's place at Tampines after going back to pick up the bike (takkan nak abandon it right) to meet Ayu's so adorably handsome son, Aniq Idraki. Such a hyper boy he is, taking out all of his toys for me and saddling up when I was talking to his parents. Hehe, so cute!!
And boy, Ayu, your son is really heavy! Heh, I underestimated it when I carried him, but he's a real trooper. Can't wait for your next one to arrive next Feb!
See, I like kids, when they are other people's kids. I like entertaining them and I especially like well-behaved ones. BUT, I don't think I can deal with one 24/7, I will go crazy seriously.
I remember when my mum took care of my cousin's sons when they were still babies, oh my god, I couldn't even study and feel like strangling the kids. To think of it, they dropped by the other day, and as usual they will spill or break something at my house. I suggest to my parents, they should serve only unbreakable ware whenever these kids come. Thank god, once a year!
I wonder if my maternal instinct will ever kick in, but not for now thank you very much. I am still in my selfish nature to even think of kids or even marriage for that matter. It's all about me me me now. *grins*
PS: To Yuyu babe, I just added on 2 pairs of Mary Janes to my shoe collection.hehe.
Yay, people I am back. Gosh, it is so bloody hot here. The weekend was the first time I sweat in a week, seriously. The supposedly spring weather in Perth was cold, it feels like being in air-conditioned environment 24/7, plus wind. You can have the sun shining above you, but the wind just makes you freeze up, my fingers and toes turned purple countless times. Eeks!
Where all the other Aussie states were having 23++ degrees Celsius in weather, Perth was having between 13 to 19 degrees every day with the occasional showers which barely lasted 3 minutes each time, it feels more like snow. Very tiring to open up the umbrellas then closing it less than 3 minutes like a game or something.
But surprisingly, I didn't even feel asthmatic, the air was really good compared to Singapore. I got to fulfill my wish of getting upclose with Kangaroo Jack (several of them in fact), koalas and goats/sheeps and god knows whatever animals at Caversham Wildlife Park where we spent 1st day of Raya!! Yes, I know, raya with the animals. But it was so fun since we rented an MPV for a day and Mr Gt was driving and me trusted with reading the maps and giving him the directions to turn right, left or stay on the freeway (who says girls can't read maps!). I was rather pleased we got to both Whiteman Park where the wildlife park is and then along the coastline to Fremantle for their famous fish n chips. Whee, I didn't get us lost! I was kinda though I am known as a street directory but still the map was rather complex, 3 different maps for different areas. The rest of Mr GT's family was asleep so both Mr GT and I were the ones awake obviously.
Anyway pix are found at the album I just put up. As soon as we touched down, the bestie and her bf fetched us and off to my place for Raya and off to her place the next day for Raya and sending them off to Melbourne. Next day, was at the airport again to fetch Mr GT's family back and yesterday was his aunt's open house and his grandma was hospitalised, must be due to all the walking we did. What a whirlwind weekend, I am damn tired!!!
Juz some random pix I have been delaying in putting up. So here it goes, I shall let the pictures tell the story coz I am too lazy to type. =P
On my birthday, finally got to go on the Singapore Flyer. Whoopee! World's largest observation wheel at the moment. And of coz the gifts from my darling Mr GT - Elizabeth Arden perfume and my covered Canon IXUS 80 IS which I think costs around $400++. I've been wanting a new digi cam to replace my Panasonic Lumix which has served me well for like hmm 4 years.
Other random pix like the Biotherm products which I won from a magazine contest with retail value of $300 (seriously I have so many skin care products that were won that i don't have to buy them for the rest of the year), Redken hair products and the Fool's Gold T-shirt plus bucket hat which actually Mr GT won but he gave it to me coz I so love the T-shirt though it's damn big.
And pix with Hani bunny and Suba. Thanx girls for the lunch treat and the bouquet of white roses, arranged by Suba herself! Thanks to the many birthday wishes from friends and family too and of course my bestest babe,Yuyu and Mr GT. =)
