Fireworks!

Went to meet the BF after he ended work. He told me he heard planes when he was at work, so it must be one of the NDP previews or something. So we ate dinner then headed down to Esplanade area.


We were only halfway there when we heard the fireworks starting. Then we walked as fast as we could and got there just to see the last few seconds of it. The fireworks were only golden colour, they must have used the colourful ones at the beginning of the fireworks.

Sigh... Watching fireworks with your loved one is the most romantic thing ever.

After that we went back to Raffles City. On the way back, we passed by this building.


Sigh... Sweet sweet memories. I still remember it was on the 58th floor. He doesn't remember.

Then we had a watermelon ice blended drink from the bubble tea shop at the basement of Raffles City. And then we went home.




Sigh... He has crows feet. Hahaha. Baby, you old already lah.

A Problem

People have asked, with me and the BF's age gap of 12 years, have we had any problems with our age difference? I've always said no.

But we found a problem last night. I got home at around 12am, having gone to Night Safari with Par and Orlina to have dinner at Bongo Burgers, and after that Annabel came and Hun Loon took us for a buggy ride. And then we missed the bus so I got home pretty late.

He wasn't happy with that.

I've always noticed that he's upset whenever I get home late. But most of the time I manage to catch the last train or bus. So it's not late, late. I always thought it wasn't a big deal, and just shrug it off.

He wasn't angry, he just sounded upset on the phone. And with my character like this, although I knew what he was upset about, I still went ahead and asked him what's wrong.

I guess... At his age, he's the kind who goes home after work if nobody asks him out. And at my age, I'm the kind who likes to go out and have fun. But I have my limits, I don't go clubbing or pubbing or stay out late at night and not go home. I just like to spend some time with my friends once in a while.

He's told me his fear of me growing up and meeting new friends at new workplaces, those who are in their 20s and 30s who go drinking after work and partying until late night. Therefore, turning into what his ex became.

Sometimes I feel like he thinks that I'm still a little girl, that he always have to be there for me, to ward off baddies and stuff. I've asked him and he's said that he's a little apprehensive of what I'll grow to be in a few years' time. He's not confident to let me face the world. Something like that.

Some time last year, my sis and ma went over to Malaysia on their own and I agreed to meet them there in a few days. Told them I'll be going over on my own. The BF wouldn't let me go alone. It was either I don't go at all, or he goes with me. Although he really really didn't want to go, I insisted on going there, so ended up he went with me to Malaysia.

Baby, I'm old enough to take care of myself, although sometimes I may need you to guide me. I know what kind of person I will become but I won't turn into the kind of person you fear I would be. Baby, I will be good for you. Don't worry.

After a wonderfully tiring day...

Tiring because it's been a very busy day, and wonderful because I got a nice surprise afterward.

Today worked opening shift but did OT, I need all the money I can get. In the morning, I went to the warehouse with Auntie Su to get the stock for the tee shirts. Had to open the cartons and check the stock and all that. It took 2 hours, and after lunch went back again to finish up. After getting the stock, we have to drive all the cartons back to the shop so Selamat got the buggy and Auntie Su and Selamat sat at the front, and me at the back with all the cartons. It was fun!

And at the end of the day I got a surprise. But shhh, it's a secret. :)

Back from work

Here's a quick update. Just had a shower after having dinner. Had a long day at work after 2 days' rest. After work Yi Xian, Val and I took some photos with the huge and expensive soft toys they took back from the hotel kiosk at Orchard Hotel.

Just got home

Just got back from the BF's place. Sweating like a pig now, it's so hot out there. The BF starts work at 3pm every Monday, so I usually take this time to go over in the morning. He helped to burn a backup disc for my new laptop. And then watched Superhero on his computer. And then did some other things... Twice. Teehee. (:

First I get him to smile...

Then he doesn't smile for the camera anymore...

Then his attention gets diverted back to Superhero...

Then he gets bored of me taking pictures of us.

Unwanted attention

Met up with the BF after his Japanese class. Went to Challenger at Funan and bought a laptop bag. Turned out to be quite big for my notebook. Couldn't decide to buy the 14 inch bag or 15 inch one cos was worried that the 14 inch one wouldn't fit. So bought the 15 inch one.

Then we spent a short while at Raffles City. You know the place where you could look up to Topshop on the 2nd floor? Where there are 3 mannequins posing at the glass railings, looking very life-like? Ladies wearing skirts or dresses really SHOULD NOT stand at the railings. Cos we were walking past and I always like to look up to see the mannequins, and I saw a fourth one move. Turned out it was a lady and she was wearing a skirt! And when she turned and walked away I could see her bum! So I nudged the BF and told him what I shouldn't have seen.

But I didn't mind. It was a young lady. And the BF always like to tease me about my being turned on by women. Which isn't 100% untrue. But he doesn't mind. But I WOULD mind if he gets turned on by men. Which I think is impossible.

So here's a little message to the ladies: don't wear skirts and go near glass railings!

Another day at the hospital

Was supposed to work today but had to cancel cos I had to accompany my ma to the hospital for 2 appointments. Just got back home. The doctors arranged another 2 appointments for her. Looks like my ma's going to have to be in and out of the hospital for the next few weeks.

The nurse opened up the bandages and I saw the wound for the 2nd time. It has healed reasonably well but when she picked up a pair of scissors and proceeded to cut away the top layer of the wound, my heart skipped a beat.

My sis and I could only watch in horror as she snipped and snipped away at the red flesh, and blood spilled down my ma's foot. But the funny thing was my ma didn't seem to feel any pain. The nurse and my ma chatted while the nurse cut at the flesh. After she was done, I asked my ma if it hurt. She said a little. She didn't know that the nurse was cutting at her flesh, and was kind of puzzled when she looked down to see that her foot was bleeding. Luckily she didn't look at her foot while the nurse was cutting. After that we asked the nurse why she had to do that. She explained that the top layer of the wound is bacteria. She had to cut away the top layer to keep the wound clean.

I'M BACK!

Wasn't in action for the past few weeks due to computer break down. Not really break down actually. You see, here's the story...

One day I opened up the little drawer of my computer table to look for some stuff. Ethan Boy passed by and saw me opening it. Being the smart boy that he is, he opened it and played with my things inside while I was at work. One of the things inside the drawer includes my Windows XP OS CD. He ripped out the plastic covering the CD booklet, the bad thing is the plastic contains the product key. So one day my pc crashed, I needed to reformat the computer, and found the product key missing. I was in quite a rage after that. Pissed with Ethan Boy. Decided to confront him the next day.

So the next day, I sat him down and asked him, "Ethan, plastic leh?" And pointed to the CD booklet. He made his trademark gesture of "no more", meaning he didn't understand what I was talking about. I repeated the question and he repeated the gesture with quite a serious look on his face. That made me forgive him instantly.

Everybody blamed me for losing that product key. Nobody blamed Ethan. I was the only one who blamed him. But I guess everyone's right. I should have copied down the product key or stored the disc in a safe place where he couldn't get his itchy little hands on. Yes and how can I bear to blame a one and a half year old little boy whom I've watched growing up. He's 2nd place on my list of favourite people. #1 is the BF. He loves Ethan too. I love them both. :)

Okay, there's the story of why I was cyber inactive for quite a few weeks. But now I've got this Acer laptop that I got for free (not really, $83 per month) when I signed on a SingNet BroadBand plan. Went with my sis to Acer to redeem it yesterday.

An update on my life. After the missing product key episode. My ma was admitted to the hospital due to an infection in her right big toe. Problem is she's also a diebetic. Infection spreads very quickly for diebetics and the bad news, the only thing the doctors could do was to amputate the big toe and cut away the infected areas on the top of her foot. She stayed in the hospital for 17 days. Life was miserable for us. There was still pus on the wound after the operation. If the pus didn't clear up, the doctors would have to amputate her whole leg. Having lost one toe was already so bad, we prayed and prayed that my ma could keep her leg. Everytime we received the bad news the grief we felt would start all over again. We prayed everyday, hoping she would get better quickly, hoping that the Gods would help. My ma sat on the hospital bed every morning and prayed. We prayed everynight at home. Sometimes the pus would stop, sometimes the pus would be back. Imagine what the good and bad news did to us. I was a total wreck. I would cry when I remembered that huge row that I had with her before she was hospitalised. I regretted so much I hated myself then.

Luckily the BF was around. He gave my family so much mental support. He visited my ma at the hospital, told her positive things which I didn't even had the hope to tell her. I could only listen as they chat. Sometimes he would catch me with my eyes all red, then he'd put his hand on my arm to tell me, "Don't let your ma see you like this."

The best thing is, I've realised that my family likes him so much more after my ma was discharged. The day ma was discharged, she asked me when the BF was going to come visit her. My pa likes him, my sis likes him, my ma loves him. I feel that he's part of my family already.

He's always there when problems arise, when I feel helpless. I really can't thank him enough.

Thanks, baby. I love you. :)

PC down. Won't be blogging for a while.

Seoul Garden Outing / Orlina's Birthday Celebration

Met up with friends on Friday night for dinner at Seoul Garden at Marina Square. Joey, Huiling, Orlina, Parinee, Bee Yan, Wei Jian and Jonathan turned up. Clayton joined us later. We planned to celebrate Orlina's birthday too. She didn't suspect a thing. It was fun. :)

Some photos.



















Met up with friends on Friday night for dinner at Seoul Garden at Marina Square. Joey, Huiling, Orlina, Parinee, Bee Yan, Wei Jian and Jonathan turned up. Clayton joined us later. We planned to celebrate Orlina's birthday too. She didn't suspect a thing. It was fun. :)

Some photos.

Update

These days life is revolving around work and the bf. And occasionally some meet ups with friends. Work life is okay. Love life is okay. Everything is going smoothly.

I've met the bf's mother. Sometimes I'd pop by his place and say hi to his mother and then lock ourselves in his computer room for quickies.

I've stopped drinking coffee for a week now. I'm not going to say the number of years I've been drinking coffee, every single day. But now I've stopped because the other day, my ma didn't boil the water and I was lazy to boil it myself and didn't drink that morning and as a result I was a complete wreck the rest of the day. I suffered from Caffeine Withdrawl Syndrome that day. I realised what the coffee was doing to my body and swore to stop drinking.

I realised sometimes I suffer from Boyfriend Withdrawl Syndrome too. Like now. Like one day I see him and the next day I don't. And then I get like this. We've been together for 2 years and 2 months. But it feels like only 3 months.

Thinking about our future. Plans plans plans. We plan to get married in 4 years time. Why does it seem like such a long time away.

Daryl's Birthday Celebration

Celebrated Daryl's 21st birthday on the 19th. Me, Huiling, and Joey headed to Orchard to look for shoes and after that met up with Parinee and we went to buy snacks and drinks and the cake. And then to our dismay, it was raining cows and monkeys outside, so naturally, our plans for the picnic at the Botanic Gardens was ruined. Thought of somewhere where there's shelter and where we can sit down and eventually settled on Esplanade Underground.

Things turned kind of wet after that. We took bus 162 to Esplanade, only to find out that the bus doesn't go to Esplanade, but to the bus stop opposite Fullerton Hotel. So we alighted there and braved the heavy drizzle as we walked across the long long bridge. Luckily I had an umbrella with me and Parinee had her hoodie jacket. So I shared the umbrella with Joey and Huiling and Parinee followed behind us.

When we reached Esplanade Underground it was about 4pm. We were 2 hours late! Clayton and Bee Yan were there already and they looked bored out of their mind. Then we took all the food out and started our, err, picnic. Right there at the Esplanade Underground where there were skaters and jugglers around. And then we played Clayton's Spongebob Monopoly. All I could say was, "I want to play Tumbling Block." cos the Monopoly game was very very long and draggy. Anyway, after Clayton left, we play Parinee's Tumbling Block. After a few rounds, we headed to Marina Square to get something to eat.

After that, we headed to Merlion Park and proceeded to act like tourists, frantically taking pictures of the night scene and the Merlion and the Esplanade. Then went home at about 9 plus.

Here are some photos. :)



They were taking photos of something but I didn't know what was so funny.

I was trying to stifle a laugh here.

The Oreo Cheesecake!

Birthday Boy making a wish.

Daryl cutting the cake!

The results of the cake after being cut by Daryl.

Daryl distributing the cake.

My slice of it.

Daryl looking at his tiny birthday present.

Tumbling Block!


The Merlion's backside.


This can really be on a postcard.

We can either be tourists, or some very weird Singaporeans.

Me drinking the Merlion's vomit.

Huiling drinking the Merlion's vomit, too.


Pose for the Singapore Zoo! Say "SINGAPORE ZOO!!!" This was seriously hilarious.






Parinee and I taking pictures of each other taking pictures. The photos with me in them are in Parinee's camera.



Group photo!

Going home. :)