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