Chef Mandy

Hubbii loves to eat cantonese fried noodle whenever he's in Malaysia. There's a little coffee shop in my neighbourhood area back home that serves 1 of the best cantonese fried noodles and never once he skipped eating in that shop when he's back.

Saying that, I decided to surprise him by cooking it last night. And boy, I surprised myself!


Bet you want some of this..

The end result turned out pretty good. I did improvised some of the stuffs like adding more flavour to the prawns marinade, adding more chicken stock and pepper etc but shucks, I didn't know I really had it in me to cook up a noodle dish as such!

Here's the website (by Amy Beh) if you guys wanna try it :)

Guess who's hopeless in cleaning up the house?

The weeks are going by so quickly these days. I can't believe that October's just around the corner already!

As I've been so darn busy with work, I hardly had any time to clean the house and pick up after hubbii. He's just hopeless when it comes to him initiating any cleaning... the only thing he's good at initiating is sex and cleaning his own car! OK, maybe abit too much info but heck, don't think it's any new news on guys & sex.

Just look at what I've found in the fridge after not doing any house-keeping for a week:


Yes, freaking moldy strawberries!! I swear there's at least 3000 live bacterias growing in that little container!

Hubbii has his 'own' room i.e. mainly to store his clothes. Last Saturday, he bought this gym equipment where he wanted to place it in that room. Gosh, you should have seen the amount of rubbish and dust and dirt in his room when he told me he wanted to place it in his room WITHOUT doing any cleaning up before that.

I told myself I won't nag over the weekend (was in Melbourne for biz trip on Thurs & Fri). But sadly, I nagged at least 5 times during the weekend! I should have taken a photo of his messy room and post it up here for u guys to judge! Hmmph.

Ok, enough of me complaining. I just had to get it off my chest as he's just turning me into this naggy wife :(

Sigh. I need to go church more often and pray for patience! And maybe take up Yoga... or pilates. Hmmm.

Ah, the sun came out to play

It was yet another beautiful weekend here in Sydney. This time, I couldn't resist not going to the beach!



Pretty busy at work now, will blog more later.

Weekend highlights

What a difference a week makes. My ass was frozen the previous rainy Saturday with high temp of 8 degrees day time and 2 degrees nite, but it warmed up last Saturday to sunny high of 30 degrees day time and 11 degrees nite!

It was a lovely Saturday. I finally wore my fav light denim 3/4 pants AND sandals AND just carried a little cardigan out for in case. Not long pants, jacket and boots!
Sadly, it then rained almost the whole of Sunday and temperature fell till about 24 degrees day time and 9 degrees nite. Not too bad - anything's better than a freaking rainy 8 degrees.
It's stabilized to about 18-19 degrees day time now.

Although the weather's pretty good during the weekend, I wasn't happy at all on both nites.
Saturday nite - Man U lost to Liverpool
Sunday nite - Kimi came in at 9th place, thus not scoring for 3 consecutive weeks

Man. I can't believe how Man U scored their own goal for Liverpool and then couldn't recover at all! They were playing so well the 1st 20 mins and after the blunder by Van De Sar, it was clearly Liverpool dominated the game. Sigh.

As for F1 - at least the winner wasn't Hamilton or Massa! So just a small little comfort there given that Kimi's so far from the world title now. Sigh.

OK, enough of my whining!


RSPCA Million Paws Walk on 18th May 2008

On top of the fantastic weather, lousy sports results, my highlight for the week has to be my shopping goodies!

Well, I was aiming to get a thong (as in flip flops, not G-strings....) and 1 of those cool gladiator shoes (love it!) but I ended up getting some other shoes which wasn't quite a thong and no where near gladiatorish. Erm.... I got myself..... 5 pair of shoes on Sunday...... 2 casual sandal-ish, 1 cute babydoll-ish & 2 for work!

I don't know what happened really. Maybe it was the upset from the Man U game that lead me to the sudden splurge. Hmm.
It could have been just 4 pairs, but the final pair (the work one) was really from a buy 1 get next at 50% deal, so it wasn't worth it to stop at just 1 pair from that shop...

So ladies, if you're feeling down and blue, head to your nearest shop for retail therapy.
It works!

Brand new look

I browsed high and low for a perfect photo to put at my blog header and I just couldn't find one. And after giving it much thoughts, since this blog's mainly about my life, why not put up photos of me, me and me? haha!

Ok, I know it's abit too much but I'll change it as soon as I find my perfect photo alrighty? :)

Chooey our little baby

Hi Everyone,

Meet Chooey!

Chooey in hubbii's footy jersey

Chooey's a bulldog which I've adopted from Ikea in July.


This was the day he captured my eyes!

He watches TV with us
He comes along in the car for drives
He sleeps on the bed with us


Chooey's little crib

He reads magazine when I'm reading mine
He loves to dance and shake his butt


Chooey reading

Ah, how dull would our lives be if we haven't got Chooey?


Happy family

P/s: No, I'm not going crazy!

Mandy the domestic wife

I feel so rusty since I've not blogged for about 2 months!

Was talking to Encik Mulut-Manis (he might want to remain anonymous thus I won't mention his name here) on MSN the other day and he said it's a sad time for 'mankind' ever since I stopped blogging. Hmm. Expressive, isn't he? With such guilt (mankind!), I decided to visit my blog again and pen down few words.

And guess what? I found out that I couldn't view my edit taskbar previously due to my extinct IE version where it's now working well with Mozilla Firefox! So erm.. yeah, USER error previously. Oops. Me bad. Someone said Women and Computers = Disaster. Looks like I fall into that category in bringing shame to my fellow sisters on Earth.

OK, putting aside my pathetic excuse for not blogging, life's been pretty boring here in Aussie land. As it was winter (June-Aug), weather was not much of a help to excite my life here since all I feel like doing is sitting in front of my heater! 11 days into spring now, but the weather's still pretty much unchanged. News reported that this yr's the coldest winter in 34 yrs and we had several coldest-day-in-xxx yrs as well this month where the temperature here is way below average.


Winter @ Kiama


My typical week for the past few weeks besides working:
<> Monday - Back from work, Cook, watch project runway from 8.30-9.30pm and then read magazines if there's no other interesting TV programs to watch
<> Tuesday - Back from work, Cook, watch American Top Model from 7.30-8.30pm and then Australian's model search and then Beauty and the Geek.
<> Wednesday - Back from work, Cook, watch So you think you can Dance (season 4) America (My fav program of the whole week!) and then loiter around and play with Chooey and Hubbii.. hehe..
<> Thursday - Back from work, then out for late night shopping. Shops close at 9pm once a week, so have to take the opportunity to shop!
<> Friday - Back from work, usually go to in-law's place for dinner and then it's hubbii's footy nite. Footy games from 7.30-10.30pm. I'm usually asleep on the sofa by 10pm and hubbii will wake me up or carry me to bed if I'm too sleepy to move
<> Saturday - Sleep till 11am, then out to shops for more shopping. We usually explore different shopping malls on Saturdays and catch a movie at nite too, or meet up with Brad's friends.
<> Sunday - Sleep till 11am (hubbii has footy till 11am), then out to buy house necessities or clean the house and then go to church. Usually dinner with in-laws too.

*yawn*
Domestic life, ain't it?


Me pushing the litehse at Kiama - this was in July BTW

Yeah, too domestic that I'm getting bored and building up fats! I guess life would probably be better when the weather's warmer.. then we can go chill out at the beach and watch hot bods running around, playing frisbees etc. Ah. Can't wait!


It's not an ugly rock. Check out the next photo on what it could do....

I told hubbii last month that I need a break. So we decided to take a short break next month, we're heading to Auckland! My mum in-law is actually from NZ thus she'll be going over to visit her siblings next month in time for 1 of the relatives' 50th marriage anniversary party so we decided to tag along.

Imagine, married for 50 years! I find that it's a blessing for any couples who could reach 50 yrs together not just because they could tolerate each other and stick to their wedding vows, but more on the fact that both are still alive then! With the current trend of one's life span, I'd be happy if I could reach 70 healthily!
Maybe it's something about the life quality in NZ.. 1 of Brad's aunt's still healthy at the age of 92 - she's living by her own! *salute*


It squirts! hehe.. this is the BLOWHOLE at Kiama

Besides looking forward to warmer weather and my Auckland trip, I'm sooooo looking forward to going back to M'sia next year during chinese new year. Yes people, I'll be back for about 3 weeks! Am looking at spending quality time with my parents, loitering around at shops, visiting friends and relatives, eating all my fav local food (YUM YUM, I could just start writing the list of stuffs that I wanna eat already!), spending time with my doggies for about 1.5 weeks and then work from the M'sian office for the other 1.5 weeks.

Am counting down the days!

That's it.. am closing down this blog!

Dear friends, family,

Looks like I need a new blog - perhaps something without a counter on how many times you blog in a mth! The editting task-bar has gone away for good where I'm not able to edit the fonts nor post up any photos.. sob sob.

I guess I'll continue blogging either by creating a new blog or just do it via facebook. I'll keep you guys posted. I need a darn broadband connection in my apt!

Life here in Aust is gradually improving, although I haven't found a buddy/girlfriend whom I could go shopping and do girly stuffs with (where I can ditch my hubby for a day or so!), am just taking it slow and enjoying each moment I have here. I get my 'alone' time whenever he plays footy (twice a week) so it's good as I could just blast the music up and dance like a mad woman without him laughing and shaking his head OR stealing my thunder by dancing more lunatic-er than me!
My next task to do here is to get my driving license and of course a car so that I could just do stuffs in my own pace and not depend on my hubbii... can't wait!

Alrighty, till my next update on what's happening (on new blog), do take care y'all!

Love,
Mandy

The buttons have dissapeared!

I think my blog's not happy that I'm blogging only once a month. The button for any editting's dissapeared! I can't change any font format nor upload any photos :(

I had an interesting weekend but it ended with a sad news i.e. my mum in-law's admitted to the hospital for an operation. We're going to visit her later before the operation so pls pray for me that she'll be OK.

It aint' easy but that's life

I have to admit that settling down in a foreign country for me has been quite a challenge. I recall having the same homesick-feeling when I first went to Manchester for my bachelor's degree.

The Manchester experience
The 1st day experience in Manchester was an eye-opener for me.
Everything started from the moment I stepped into the airplane (British Airways) where I was sobbing silently in my seat staring blank as back then, there weren't any individual TV screens in their economy seats. Imagine 18 hrs without any entertainment. Small little space.

And then my hand-carry bag got confiscated and checked-in causing some fragile stuffs that I had in it to break into pieces. Followed by a bad case with the cab driver bringing me in circles. And then trying to carry 35 KG luggage + 12 KG handcarry into a small hallway space all by myself as it was midnight when I reached my student apartment. Man, those were horrible memories that I'll never forget as I just broke down into tears when I saw my small squashy room!

The Aussie experience
Not anywhere close to my Manchester experience as I had my wonderful hubby to pick me up, carry my luggage, fetch me home back to our apartment. I was not too bad the 1st 3 days when we started to look around for stuffs to build our love nest, but after that, it suddenly struck me that I've moved to Sydney for good. I'm not here for holidays. I'm not here for a short term assignment. I've moved here for good to start a life with my hubbii!


Hubbii tired from all the furniture-carrying

With those thoughts in my head, I was constantly comparing life here and life back in my home cty and it was NOT a nice feeling to have. My mind kept reminding me that I wont be seeing my parents as often, I won't get to hug my dogs, I won't get to hang out with my bestie, I won't get to do stuffs independently and due to that, I got depressed.



Us after a long day of carrying and assembling our furnitures!

Depression lead to constant argument with hubbii as I was just being sensitive about almost everything. It's not a lie that I loved how my life was before I came here. When hubbii wasn't 'giving in to me' in any scenarios, I'll start to wonder whether it's worth it that I left my comfortable life back home to come here, 8 hrs flight from home, to be with him. My financials were divided into 3 (exchange rate) and it sux knowing that I don't have as much money as what I normally had.

I never had problems with jealousy. I'm the type that's fine with my other half looking at chicks (as I would probably be looking as well - you know, it's a gal thing!), hanging out with chicks or even having chicks as a good friend. The only thing I would ask of him is that he tells me about it. To me, being open and frank is the key to trust. So I've never had any doubts with hubbii.
But somehow my mind started to wander away when I found out that hubbii has been constantly emailing this chick that he hung out with (along with his other friends) when I wasn't here.

3.5yrs of long distance relationship and not a single doubt but BOOM! 1 week of being here physically with him and I started to doubt him.
I did not doubt nor felt anything when he told me about it during our long distance daily calls & smses but somehow my mind just wandered away with all the depression I had then.

I wanted to leave so badly.

I was sobbing away during day time when hubbii was at work while I was stuck at home alone. Kept thinking to myself - why why why?

Thankfully, we managed to talk it out and now, things couldn't be better between us!



Our love nest

I learnt that I have 2 options -
1) I can either sulk and complain about everything here while not making any efforts in meeting people where I'll just be in my small little world with hubbii, OR
2) I can embrace the challenge, learn the aussie culture to fit in and make the best out of what I can do here.

I chose option #2 and I'm glad and thankful that God gave me this opportunity. No doubt I'll continue to miss my parents & bestie but at least I get to sms, email or talk to them whenever and where-ever I want to!

Camera USB received!

Wee! I just received my camera USB connector from my bestie today so I should be back in the blogging biz very soon!

Life here has been pretty slow paced. It's almost 3 weeks that I'm here but it feels like 3 months. Guess 1 late nite shopping day in a week is not helping much :(

Nothing beats home back in Malaysia. Truly.

Anyway, I just started my new job last friday. I have not read this much of materials and performed this much of online courses since Uni days! Was supposed to go to Shanghai for a biz trip but due to some hiccups with the visa stuffs, my trip was cancelled. Then due to internal lengthy processes, I just got my email ID but nothing else on my 3rd day of work.

OH WELL!

Will be back soon with photos!

I'm down under

G'd day, mates!

Yes, I'm finally here in Sydney. Still in a daze although it has been 5 mths since our wedding. The days prior to my move here was so darn hectic that my brain is still trying to register what's happening!

Have got a few photos here and there but right now, can't post any as I'm using hubbii's comp lap top. I need to settle down alot of stuffs before I could get myself a new lap top and then blog my time away! wee!

My apartment is nice and cosy, kinda empty for now as we're still sourcing for more furnitures. Building our 'love nest' is not easy, as both of us have different taste when it comes to decoration! Hubbii is more into earth colors - he likes everything matchy-matchy such as dark brown with ivory with light brown. And oh, and red too (since red is a bolder color of brown, really.... ); whereas I like lively colors such as blue, green, red, white - basically a combination! But I don't like my hse to be darkish as it tends to give me a 'moisquito-field' feel. Plus I think it's quite depressing to come back to a dark house during winter... gloomy.. eeek... but well, hubbi loves dark stuffs!

So how do we compromise? I'm leaving the guest room and study room for hubbii to do most of the stuffs where else I'll have more say for the living room and of course, our bedroom.. :D
Shh.. I haven't quite told him yet, so don't blow away my secret on how I'm gonna get that my way! hehe..

So much to blog about, hopefully I'll settle all the important stuffs and be back to blog with heaps of photos soon!

This is it!

I'm official categorised under the unemployed section.

No more waking up at 7.45am everyday! Well, at least till I find a new job down-under!
1.5 weeks to go till my big move. I can't believe how fast time's flew by. It has been 5 mths since my wedding, and now, finally my move.

me @ office on my last day of work

Sadly, I didn't really get any farewell lunch or dinner from my boss prior to my leave. I understand that it's a busy month end closing but hey, I think they should at least do something for someone who's been with the company for 7yrs! Good thing is I had separate lunches with close colleagues. Guess that's what matters ey? Not quantity of people but the quality.

Also, my singapore team sent me flowers - sweet of them! I really didn't expect that and I think my boss was kinda 'shy' when he saw that my Singapore team did something for me, but nothing from his dept. Oh well.

So what did I do today, being the 1st day of my unemployment?
Well, I slept almost the whole day! Man, I can really fall into the hibernate category. I really wonder if I was a bear or similar in my previous life.. HMmmm.

Oh, and YES, I chopped my hair off. Was bored of my long hair. I actually wanted something funky like Rhianna's but my hair stylist ended up giving me a school girl bob-cut! :( *SIGH*
Hubbii wasn't happy at all. Since he had not seen me with short hair, and he being a typical i-love-long-hair-girls kinda guy, he said I look weird. And complained saying now ppl will think that he married an underage gal! blah blah.... somehow I just can't be bothered of what he thinks these days. I wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that we're married.. haha.

Oh well, it's just hair. It'll grow and I WILL get my funky hair style soon!

My Blog totally needs a revamp

I think my blog needs to be revamped.

It should probably be named "the once in a blue moon blogger" and I should put an astronaut photo or something like that at the top header. Even my chatbox thingy expired. Geez.

Oh well. So what have I been up to? Well, nothing much except catching up with friends since I knew of my move status. And that is causing my waist-line to expand since it's mostly lunch or dinner or drinks gathering!

I'm really taking my time in terms of settling stuffs, coming up with a checklist of what to do etc. Ok Ok, I really need to get the ball rolling and start thinking bout what stuffs to bring etc. I'm such a last min gal.. can just see how rushing things are gonna be a week before my move!

I'll be flying off to Aust on May 8th. Preferably wouldn't want anyone but my parents to send me off, as I would probably be in a total mess even with just my parents in the airport :(

Nevertheless, I'll have so much to blog about when I'm in Aust! I would probably blog more when I'm in Sydney since everything closes early. No late nite shoppings except for Thursday. Darn.

Hubbii just got a place, Aussies call it an 'executive apartment' as it's just 2 floors - we're occupying the top floor which I have to admit is really NICE! Then again, for the price that we're paying, it better be.........

I'll blog with photos soon of the empty apartment, where you'll see deco-master Mandy giving it a transformation (could she possible give the Queer Eye guys a run for their money? Hmm) and volla! Oh wait, then again, hubbii does have a history of 'bad' taste when it comes to deco. In fact, most guys do! So it's going to be my persuasion skills Vs hubBii's stubbornness.

We'll just have to see.......

Finally!

Fellow friends and relatives,

My spouse visa's finally been granted! I got a call from the immigration office on Tuesday morning, the same morning that hubbii was leaving to go back to Australia. We were still sleeping at about 10.40am (hey, it was like my last day on leave after having 5 days break so I'm entitled for it!) when my handphone rang with the good news.

Just went to the Aust High Comm this morning to get the visa letter - it's slowly coming to me that I am moving really soon. I think I'm still pretty much in a daze right now, coz I'm not doing any much besides working.

So many things to blog about. I guess you'll hear from me very soon about my move. Right now I just can't put into words on my feelings but well, just a matter of time....

Gonna pen off with a photo of Kimi, my hero :)

It's all about the hair

I had different shades of brown highlights for the past 10 years of my life and most of the time, not many people seemed to notice. But since last week when I colored my hair blackish, few people were surprised and said they couldn’t recognise me! *puzzled*

Me: *waving on the escalator to a colleague, F, who was waiting below the escalator for his friends for lunch*
F: *looked through me and looked away and then looked back, puzzled*
Me: *wave more aggresively and at this moment, was about 5 footsteps away from him*
F: OMG! I couldn’t recognise you! I thought you were waving to someone behind me! You colored your hair black!!
Me: Err.. Yeah...
F: Why??
Me: For a change I guess? Haven’t had black hair since secondary school!
F: *look at me funnily*

Okay.. I don’t know if that means good or bad, I guess some liked it, some didn’t. But weirdly, I love it! I think that I definitely look more innocent now, maybe cause it brings me back to my school days. Not to say that I was that innocent then, but well, I just forgot how I looked like with black hair. My natural hair color’s not this black, but well, I seriously like it.
Not only it makes my hair look healthier, I think I look kinda fierce and asianese.

Haha.. Asianese! Yes. I am Asian afterall and I am proud of it!
I was just telling another colleague that it’s weird how people find me weird with black hair while I thought asians were supposed to look ‘natural’ with black hair!

Few colleagues told me I look like a chinese doll. To top it up, I accidently cut my fringe abit too short, so err.. Yeah, it helped with the chinese doll look! Hubby wasn’t as estatic with my decision of going black. I don’t know if it has anything to do with the fact that his mum has pure black hair. But these days he tend to greet me in sms "how’s my asian wifey" or "how’s my chinese wifey".

Hubbii has always liked me with brownish hair, probably because that was how I looked like when he first saw me where he fell head over heels. Love at first sight. Now, I’ve taken away that image from him and he’s not exactly happy about it!
He said my black hair reminds him of his mum, since his mum had black hair her whole life.

Errr... not sure if it's a good sign for your husband to tell you that you remind him of his mum?? Should I be worried? Hmm.
Anyway, hubbii will be here this Thursday for 5 days, guess I'll know whether I should be worried or not then... *grin*

Happy Easter, everyone!

Weekend full of food and surprises!

1. I finally took the decision to nurse my hair back to good health - colored it blackish last friday. I'm so not used to my hair being blackish with a hint of dark brown under the sun. The last time I had black hair was probably during secondary school days before I decided to un-asianize my hair color!


Which do you prefer?

2. Was granduncle's 80th birthday on Saturday nite. Buffet as usual since there were probably 50 guests that nite. Too much food!

3. Was also voting day on Saturday. Everyone was amazed with news coming in during the dinner esp when they found out few ministers lost their seat to oppositions. Amazed and excited.
And then scared for riots, so we all left around 9.45pm.

4. Yongy's wedding on Sunday. I was 1 of his honoured 'heng tai' (chinese term for a relation similar to brother) - He had a team of 'unisex' 'heng tais' to take torture from the chee muis (chinese term for a relation similar to sister).

No other photos for now.. Think Yongy's photographers took quite alot of shots, so will share with u guys once I have the photos.

Time to go home....

Status of my move

My most seeked-after answer these days: "So when are you moving to Australia?"

Ah, the question that I wished I could have everyone who asked me to ask the Immigration officer who's processing my visa right now. She would then realise that she has the power to change someone's life forever. And the power to stop me from saying the same thing over and over again.

So what’s been happening to me lately? Well, since Chinese new year, nothing much! I’m now at a position of tasting the feeling of being ‘stranded’ – my visa’s been pending for 2 months now. 2 months and no good news at all. Not good given that I paid a bomb for my visa agent and all he advised me is to ‘wait’. He told me that the immigration office might be agitated and might place my submission at the end of the pile if we do make enquiries about it.


My hse's chinese new year deco

My reaction: What a load of crap! Firstly, I’ve heard that lately, 2 cases of Malaysians applying for the spouse visa in Australia got approved within a month from 2 different sources. Secondly, if I’m the immigration officer and if my ‘client’ don’t really show any signs of interest in getting their visas quickly, I’ll definitely take my time in looking and processing the case if I’ve got 101 cases to look through. I don’t know what is their attitude in processing visas, but their actions are definitely affecting relationships by just dragging it longer. Our lives are just put on hold for now – I can’t plan my job and hubbii can’t start looking around for apartments as we plan to rent wherever that’s close to my job location for the moment before we get a house. Also, 2 weekends ago was the MAS travel fair and I missed the opportunity to get my flight ticket since I had no news at all.

I voiced out my frustrations to hubbii and he decided to call the immigration lady up.
She mentioned that she was waiting for Scotland Yard to confirm on my police-check and just received it lately. Plus their system was down for a week or 2 blah blah. And in summary, she just said 'soon'.

When hubbii told me that, I had more regrets on my visa agent. It is because of my UK police-check that I had postponed my whole submission as it took them 2 months to reach me. I waited for that before I lodged my application as THAT WAS WHAT MY VISA AGENT TOLD ME TO DO!
And here they are, checking on it again from their end. What the???
I wouldn't have wasted time if I knew the immigration office was going to check on it as well.

*double SIGH*


Unfortunately, that cute baby's not mine :P
Family lunch during chinese new year..

This waiting game with the immigration centre is a real torture. Really :(
I can’t just go over to Australia without having my visa approved as I have to be here once they grant the approval. So now, the only way for us to see each other is for hubbii to come here.

Lately I had a proposal from a future employer that they are willing to fly me to Australia for transition in March/April, before I go over for good. But they are only willing to do that if I can promise that I WILL be there in May. What a tempting offer but hell, I can’t take it as I really do not have control over the visa approval. What if the immigration officer decided to reject due to whatever reasons, or what if the person handling my case had 500 applications to deal with and she fell sick or etc etc. Millions of ‘what ifs’ can just happen and I can’t be selfish to commit to my future employer when I seriously don’t know what’s going to happen.

Sigh.


Reunion with some Assuntarians during CNY

Sometimes I don’t know if honesty pays but I guess my guilty conscience just wouldn’t leave me if I do lie about the position that I am in today. I was offered a promotion mid of last year but I turned it down as I thought I would be leaving the country right after the wedding in Dec. I didn’t want to put my boss in a difficult mode as they would need to look for another person after 6 mths or so (give my assumption then) and I know it’s going to be tough on the company.

But look at me now – still here, and still doing the same jobrole although I know that I can do better than where I am today. If not for my conscience, I would have just taken the job as it would at least give me a jump in my salary. Darn my conscience!

Happy Lunar new year

Kung Hey Fatt Choy to all who's celebrating the chinese new year - year of the Rat!

Gosh, time flies - it's been 2 weeks since I last blogged. Darn it, looks like that's my normal phrase these days at the start of all of my blog post? aiks......

I spoke to a colleague the other day and told her that Blogging is like Exercising. Once you start, it's pretty hard to stop. But once you've managed to stop, it's so darn freaking hard to start back again!

I've got heaps to blog and some photos of course. Am sleepy.. 2.35am now.. I'll try and see how else I can start blogging again tmr.....

Good nitey... zzzzz

And oh, no angpows for same generation friends, so stop bugging me about it! Grow up! hehe
:P

My first time . . .

There's always a first in everything that you do. And yesterday, it truly was my first time. It gave me a soothing feeling... was so relaxed... chilled... at times it was cooling against my warm skin and the slippery feel of her fingers rubbing against me, my face... YES, it was my first time doing a facial!

After donkey years of not caring much for my skin, I've finally went on and tried a facial. My mum keep bugging me, 'you are going to step into another new decade of your life... you better take care of your skin otherwise you'll look so old by 35.. blah blah'.

Although I really enjoyed the 1 hr 40 minutes of face pampering, I have to say that it's quite a price to pay for women to maintain her 'beauty'. I'm so not used to spending money for beauty, such as spending on make-ups, face creams, facials.. it's a bomb out of my pocket! I rather take the money and spend it on tangible assets. Stuffs that I can see and own at the end of the day.

One things for sure - 1 facial session can't do much for one's face. I don't really feel different today, with exception a small reddish itchy lump on my right eye-bag area today and my guess' that my skin's just not used to the products they used. Especially my eye area. It's a tough one to please! I've always had sensitive skin since young, and although my eye dark circle's getting worse these days (from all the late nites when I was younger... ah, those were the days) I can't use any cream etc as I'll just get these itchy lumps and only dettol cream could cure it in a day or 2's time.

I did however purchase another of their package which includes some eye treatment thingy. We'll see how it goes... darn the ageing effect on women!

American Idol is back!

OMG, American Idol is back!!!



Season #7 on Astro Starworld every Wed & Thurs! Wee!

Ah, just as I thought I was going to give up on being a couch potato since I hardly 'followed up' on any TV series/dramas lately (a habit stopped by all the wedding planning and appoinments but it somehow lingered on even after the wedding), American Idol's new season has begun.

Darn it. There goes any social outings on wednesdays and thursdays nite up till mid March. Plus Heroes season 2's starting next week here as well... urgh!

Bye Bye dinner outings on wed & thurs!

Overdue blog-post.. still overdue!

Just heard that some of my friends, especially those overseas, are still reading my blog! Weee!

OK la, it gives me more incentive to blog I guess? hehe.. nah, kidding. I actually started to blog when master Yoda suggested that I should 'document' down my wedding planning - heart aches, joys & stress levels. And especially the 1st few months of blogging, I realised that it helped me 'cope' my stress levels in some ways.
It's like pouring your heart out to someone without really saying it face to face. I'm sure you know the feeling that you tend to 'hold back' stuffs when you're talking to your friend face to face or even sometimes on the phone, right? :)

Work's occupying most of my time these days. Have been crazily loaded ever since my long leave :(
I'll try and blog tmr nite since I need to be home early tmr.... till tmr, take care people!

Alone again. Time for some updates!

I suddenly feel empty.

Hubby (yes, upgraded from BearyBrad to Hubby now!) has just left yesterday night to go back to Australia and looks like it’ll be another 3 mths till we see each other again where I hope and pray that it’ll be both of us flying to Sydney then.

This’ probably the 28th time that we’re parting again and darn it, it still feels like it was yesterday that he landed in KLIA. It still hurts everytime we part and I get really emotional especially the first week of being apart. Am missing him like crazy now. Feels different not seeing my hubby sleeping on my bed, or massaging my feet when I’m chilling out on the sofa or my bed or even hearing him calling out his own chinese name that Jess named him.
*sob*

It has been exactly 1 mth and 1 day that hubby was here. I can still recall how stressed I was last mth this time. Was definitely not in a good mood most of the time despite people telling me that I had the "bride’s glow" prior to the wedding. Hmm.. Not sure what glow did they see but I definitely wasn’t doing any ‘pampering’ then as I had sleepless nites and diet was all hay-wired as I was eating at weird times.

Anyway, come to think of it, we didn’t do much after the wedding. We just chilled out in KL most of the time as my in-laws stayed at KL Grand millenium till the 13th. Oh, we went to Genting for a day trip too. That's it with my in-laws.


Genting trip

Then we had to settle some stuffs on the visa and subsequently our little 4D3N trip to Penang. It was peak period and we made our decision a little too late, so we didn’t manage to go to Koh Samui (our 1st choice). The the rest of the place were all fully booked too despite the monsoon season.


Hubby squeezing himself in a log

Didn't do much in Penang as I fell sick 1 of the days. Penang seemed pretty dead in the afternoon.. most hawker stalls were closed and the food selection in some of the malls we went to was kinda dissapointing compared to KL/PJ's.
The only 'lively' place during weekdays we noticed was Gurney drive. That place's so freaking lively even at 1am!


Us camwhoring since no one else was there to take pics for us

After our Penang trip, it was back to KL/PJ for more X'mas shopping. Shop Shop Shop that I'm so darn broke now.
Think I need to live on bread and water plus free coffee/tea/milo from work during weekdays for a mth (at least) to recover my expenses... wedding and x'mas expenses, as I need to recover in time for chinese new yr.. my 1st year of being married i.e. first year in giving out angpows! Urggh! Talk about perks of being married............


My hse's X'mas tree

Anyway, we had a quiet christmas this year. Only Cousin Kooji & his family plus Loli Bestie came over for dinner on christmas eve.
Speaking of which, there was a crazy massive jam at Rawang on X'mas eve due to floods. It took us 2 hrs to get home from One Utama where thank God we took the Bukit Beruntung exit instead of jamming into the Rawang toll exit on NKVE. The cars could not move at all into Rawang as the 1 and only road leading into the town was blocked to due the bad flood. It took Kooji 3 hrs to get to my hse from PJ!!



But we all forgot about the crazy jam when we saw what's for dinner. We had turkey, roasted ham, pickled ham, soup, salad, mutton, mushrooms and some others I can't recall. Forgot to take photos of it since we were super hungry then!

Will continue later on some other updates..