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PRE XMAS!

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:55:32 GMT

Yep, the long awaited updates on my life. I know I'm not updating my blog that often, but heaven, no choice! I think I'll be less occupied in terms of work in the month of December, so hopefully I will be updating more.

On 7 November, it was a really early Christmas pictures taking day. For those who've been following my blog long enough since the day I started blogging, I think you all know how much I love Xmas. It's a yearly tradition to take pictures with the lightings and all. I think I missed it last year though. One reason was also that I didn't have a boyfriend at that time. Lol! Every year there was a boyfriend to take pictures together with me. Nonetheless, I had a good time last year.

Time flies, and another year has come! I'm not elated because I've already touch mid twenties this year. That's quite horrifying. Before you know it, it's the big '3'! Omg...

This year has marked a difference in my life. I've learnt the ups and downs in this career, appreciating the angels I got, thanking God for everything that has happened in my life. I also thank God for my lovely home; my parents and my sister; my dearest Lenco, who lifted my spirits up whenever I feel down, for getting sweeter each passing day, for giving me a big bear hug when I feel that all things are wrong; for my colleagues who've helped me alot in my career; my friends who have been there for me; for my clients who've made this year possible. Alot of things to thank for. I really appreciate all of you.

So anyway, some pictures taken on 7 Nov.

At Marina Square Pizza Hut. The lighting there was pretty good.

Bb was trying to take a picture of my shiny top.

Bb, when he's doing cute stuff.

Peek-a-boo game.

Blink blink in bling bling.

This is a video actually. Was quite silly doing this video, but somehow I like it. Bb keep asking me to do chest out so that the light can reflect.

Lovely lights!

Love this pic.

At Suntec. Christmas Tree and a kiss:)

Try to spot a shadow.

Marina Bay lights. I read in the papers that people preferred the lights at Marina Bay. I've been to Orchard myself and I also do prefer MArina Bay's lights too. Orchard's somewhat a little sparse. Nothing special.

At Raffles City Shopping Centre. Bb holding my clutch.

My muscle man (MMM)! MMM... tasty!

I told Bb I wanna go Orchard to take Xmas pics. He said "Again?" I told him, it's Orchard, not again. Lol...

Next, on 15 November, we went to Kbox with his family to celebrate his sister's birthday. The pictures below were taken using a professional camera. Again, we are at Marina Square.

I love bb in this picture. So cute!

Monster Man. (MM)

Sole attraction in this pic is bb's daddy. Check out his glasses. Lol...

I think bb looks like Astro Boy. Cos he has big eyes, spikey hair, and most importantly, cute too! Most guys I know hates to be called cute, but bb is different.

Oh, which reminded me, we caught Astro Boy with Dominic and his wife. We got the tix free cos Dom have one pair extra. Hehe.......

Ok, switch off time. Bleahz.....

A family pic at last. I'm the photographer. Not bad la, using the pro camera. A man was standing on the left so I was trying not to capture that man into the picture. Not because I cannot focus.

Looks familiar? This is day time.

An artsy shot. Us in the lift.

End of family day.

Last but not least, don't get tired of seeing me ok. I managed to blog today cos I went home early and even had time to take some pics of myself. It's been a long long time since I had a narcissistic day. Heh... Enjoy~

Trying out different tones.

Couldn't resist but to take a pic of St. Regis invitation card. Looking forward to that day.

End of Sunday and end of a super long post. Time to watch Victoria's Secret fashion show. :)

HAPPINESS

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:37:44 GMT

All things are in place, and I'm so so happy lately. Been pretty busy also, be it work and abit of social stuffs, just feel blissful. My baybee has also been ultra sweet these days, though we do have abit of unhappiness here and there, nothing major that can't be solved.

Upcoming, December, the month of giving! It's Christmas! And this year is even more unique because I have two red bombs too. Lol... In time to come, I hope to give out the red bomb to people as well. Haha! Right now, it's money flowing out first.

Usually, to me wedding dinners are occassions to celebrate two people's union. If you were to ask me, sometimes it's just going for the sake of going you know. You may not even know or perhaps close to the person at all. However, they call this 'show face'. Anyhow, I'm particularly excited about the upcoming one cos it's gonna be at St. Regis, one of Singapore's most prestigious hotel! I've never been there, that's why I'm looking forward to it as well. I found this from St. Regis website, looks good.

Pic courtesy of St. Regis.

The next thing to look forward to is my baybee's birthday, which falls on Xmas eve. Then it's Christmas and hola, our anniversary. Oh, and my mom's birthday. Tell me, is December making me broke? I think so!

I had to spoil the surprise for my bb cos it clashes with our church service and I had to work out details with him, Nonetheless, I hope he is happy with this arrangement.

We are going to.......................

AMARA SANCTUARY RESORT SENTOSA!

Total coolness. Our stay is going to be on Xmas eve & Xmas day. So happy!

Check out the pics, courtesy of Amara's website. Beautiful.

I can't wait for this Christmas to come. Heh... We've also booked our flight to Bangkok for next year, after our running for what we call in the company, 'banding'. Kuku bb happily booked our flight right in the middle of the period he is supposed to go for reservist. Fortunately we are able to change the date.

Lastly, I just came back from an appointment. Really feel blessed to have met some angels in my course of career. I'm really touched when Bun go almost all out to help me reach my MDRT, even though he doesn't know what it is nor does it benefit him in any sense, but he is just willing to help. He also knows I like the strudel that's near my office, so he bought it specially for me too when I met him and his friend just now. Such a sweet friend with no agenda (I need to stress this :P). Ok, perhaps his only agenda is for me to bring him to some fine dining restaurant. I'm more than willing. So I shall plan for it too.

Pic courtesy of Ritz Apple Strudel. He bought the strawberry one. Nice. My whole family gets to eat it too. It's huge.

The strudel pic is making me feel hungry. Lol...

Ok, sorry for the lack of updates lately. Been kinda tired. I have some pics that I'm all ready to upload, so bear with me for a while. December should be a slack month. We are shifting office, and closing shop for the year. I'm getting my Personal Assistant to help me clear some administrative stuffs as well. Did I mention I will be getting a private space of my own in my office? No more hot desking area for me. Hahah... Upgrade, upgrade.

All is good!

Good night! Hugs :)

6 NOVEMBER

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:00:20 GMT

There are some things in life that you hold on so close to, but as time pass by, you realise it's simply a passe. For the first time after so long, realising some things over time, I'm truly happy for you. And this is the only feeling I have.

Have a good one this year, and happiness stays with you.

Happy birthday.

6TH YEAR

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:12:07 GMT

November has always been a special month and it will always be. A month before Christmas with lotsa happenings.

NIGHT

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:29:49 GMT

I came across this magnificent picture of the Singapore night scenic view and thought it's really, really beautiful. Perhaps it's because it featured my favourite place, which is one where I'm able to see One Fullerton.

City Hall has always been and will always be a favourite place of mine. This place holds alot of things, events after events. It's one of the romantic corners of Singapore, at least in my opinion.

Isn't this beautiful??

I have to say that God is doing tremendous work in my life, ever since I went back to church. All the time I've been praying but I have to admit I wasn't much of a church goer. Since this year, with special thanks to my colleague who brought me back to church, life has been amazing.

By making God my business partner, my business have suddenly prospered. On top of that, just now, my family and I were by the roadside waiting for a cab. There was another family who cut our queue and went just in front of us. And they did it right in front of our eyes. We, being nice and civilised, let them cut. But guess what? A cab came and instead of stopping in front of that family, the cab driver chose to stop in front of us instead.

Isn't God great? Today's been a smooth day. :)

And today is bunny's birthday! Though he's far far away in Majorca, Spain (yes, where the boyzone member died), I hope he enjoys his day and bring a nice present back for me. Wahahah..... Instead of me giving him his birthday present. Ok, totally kidding, I got a present for him definitely.

Lately though busy, sometimes late nights do have some leisure time. There was a night I kinda miss the night scene a little, and it was really last minute that I asked Ben Ben whether he would like to go for a drink. He said ok, and I brought him to New Asia Bar since he's never been there. Yup, another place at City Hall. The view is gorgeous but our lousy phone cameras couldn't really take nice pics. There, we got to know some Thai girls. They're really really fun to be with. Perhaps when we have a chance we will ask them out.

Padron the quality, It's bad. On the 71st storey of Swissotel.

I had my favourite margarita and Ben had maritni.

Ben Ben!

Ona's sister, Ona, Ben & Me.

I look like lobster. Lol... I always turn red when I drink.

Last week had a dinner with Uncle Richard. He;s the one who brought me back to church. We went to Singapore Recreation Club for a dinner by the indoor swimming pool. The food was not too bad. I love the deocoration on the table. A globe.

Some time to camwhore, one of my ex favourite activity. Haha! Still as vain as before. Women hardly change.

I know everything seems really random, that's because I've not been blogging much about my life.

I'm a thinker. I think about alot of things. Everything. Past, present, future. There was a day whereby the Pastor or was it Uncle Richard who preached on this. Sometimes we do not know why certain things happened, and why God planned it this way. There are times the answers we seek for is not revealed to us. Reason being is that God knows we may not be able to handle the truth, therefore some things are better left unknown. This brought me to one thing. Something which I really wanted the truth but have not, and probably never, be going to find out. Suddenly I felt as if something have been lifted. The heavy weight in my heart is no longer there. At times when I do question myself again, I keep thinking about this phrase, and it just makes me feel better. "I may not be able to handle the truth". So, as I grow older each day, each week, month and year, perhaps there will be a time that is ripe and I will know the truth.

November is coming. It's still one of my favourite months. It's a month before Christmas, which is my favourite season, and it's also what I call it, Sweet November. From the movie (Sweet November) to the things that happened in November.

Now, let's havea preview of Christmas. I don't know why, but this year Christmas seems so enchanting, out of nowhere.

These pics are from Victoria's Secret, some years back. Bringing it back and have guys eyeballs dropping.

I love the sexily clad babes, with the fur, angels, snow and all.

Gorgeous gorgeous!

Victoria's Secret is so on my list. Perhaps I will buy something from VS for my own Christmas present this year. It's always a tradition, to buy something for myself to mark the end of the year and to celebrate Christmas. Talk about early Christmas shopping eh?

Haha.... Sweet dreams peeps. I'm gonna do other stuffs like surfing web.

PRIORITY

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:47:25 GMT

Once upon a time in my life, alot of things about me were placed in the number one position in my dearest ones positioning list. Thinking back, it's not that long ago, neither can I say it's only a recent thing, that it did happen to me. I knew how to appreciate then, but some things just don't work out as much as you would like to. Things in the present makes me think alot too.

Some things in your life you can't change it, and you're hoping so much to change the way you are to make sure mistakes don't get repeated. As unfair as it sounds to the victim, I can only say we grow up. We want to do the right things right, and how the wrong things can be turned right. However, along the way, disllusion comes into the picture, and you start to wonder whether what you're doing is really right or wrong. You start to question yourself so much so that it's a pain to even think about it.

No two people is the same. Just like how I always tell my clients too. No two consultants are the same. I cannot expect the same type of treatment from different people. Does it all boil down to expectations set?

As you grow older, does it also mean your expectations must be lowered so that you'll live happier? Is it really true to be contented with the things or people you have? But then again, the problem can simply lie in me.

What does it mean to be truly happy?

Happiness is defined as a state of mind or feeling characterized by contentment, love, satisfaction, pleasure, or joy. It's a mixed emotion isn't it? To feel love, contentment, joy..... I would like to experience that once again. However, seems like the older I get, with more experiences in life, it makes me feel more vulnerable, and I want to protect myself even more. I'm not even sure sometimes whether or not certain things should I be upset about. I can choose to brush things off. I can confront it. Yet I have no idea what I really want to do. And the day just skip by, leaving me in doubt.

I read the content in this blog entry. I'm not even sure what I'm trying to say. Guess I'm having mix emotions at this point of time. Ignore me.

TO MY BB, YES YOU...

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:12:48 GMT

In response to the ugly truth comment, as per in our own blog :)

THE UGLY TRUTH

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:54:23 GMT

After a hectic week, today is a time for rest and relax and to recharge. Woke up at 10 plus, went for church service at 12.30pm, then lunch and headed to Vivocity to catch The Ugly Truth as well as to buy bb's client's present and mooncakes for our families.

I enjoyed today's service very much. Pastor Kong shared on the promises we make to our dearest and "My word is my bond". It's a good reminder of how we tend to say things but we don't mean it, how we say we will do things but don't do it.

So, The Ugly Truth. It's a pretty good movie I must say. It got my eyes glued from the beginning. And oh, this is my faourite scene, where this guy (Colin) whom the lead dated brought her to the forest and had a picnic there. He drove her in a convertible. It was damn cool. Plus he gorgeous and by gorgeous, he don't look like the type who looks like a cassanova. I know right, I'm judgemental but well, it's a job thing, when you have 3 seconds to decide if you like this person enough to become your client. Though some times I may be wrong too after talking to the person for long. Oh well.... first impression counts. Anyway, here's the part which I love.

A gorgeous rich man who seems really lovely brings girl out for a picnic. Woo!

Handsome not? Lol....

Anyway, after the movie, bb asked me who will I prefer to go out with, the gorgeous Colin or the lead, Mike. I paused for a while before replying. I would prefer Colin.

Reasons:

1) Mike is way too flirtatious to my liking

2) Mike though charismatic (and I do like charismatic guys), is back to point number one. Too flirtatious and he anyhow smacks people's butts!

3) Colin seems really sweet.

4) Colin looks suave.

Anyway, this is what is portrayed in the movie. What I really dig in guys are these qualities:

1) Caring

2) Attentive

3) A gentleman

4) Great in communication

5) Sweet

6) Listen

7) Thinks with their heart. I repeat, with their heart, not their head.

8) Gives in to me. Not all the time if I'm not reasonable, but I do have expectations.

Opps, I'm divulging too much. Later some guy comes along and use these to hook me up how? Lol! Just kidding! I think it's the basic qualities which most girls will want. No doubt there will be some who wants their partner to be rich, good-looking and what not, it's a bonus to have but not necessarily the core.

Ok, I think it's time for bed anyway. Tomorrow I will need to be up early.

Lastly, thanks by sweetie b, who bought the delicious mooncakes for my family from Home Favourite. :)

DREAMS

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:33:50 GMT

It's funny how dreams can manipulate your life. When the fake becomes too real, when the real don't wanna be real.

It's breaking me.

MY PRETTY LAVA LAMP

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:22:49 GMT

First, gonna thank my bb for letting me put my pretty lava lamp at his place, coz my mum will nag at me if I were to put it at my place. Also, for the good Friday cheer he brought me when I felt depressed. He cheered me up by bringing me to a place I've been wanting to visit since a long time ago, Double Bay at Raffles City Shopping Centre. We had healthy drinks. Non alcoholic. I had mango juice while he, apple juice.

We had a long long chat and I felt alot better after talking to him. You're appreciated my lovely bb.

Love this picture. Mini cooper parked at the reserve lot, in front of Raffles Hotel, while us, sitting at Double Bay sipping our drinks.

My bb slanted together with his drink.

Mademoiselle :)

Lastly, the lava lamp story. I lit it up, the rest was history. Bb fell in love with it. Heh....

Shall look forward to this weekend and let's enjoy the pretty lamp together.

Sidetrack a little, I love this picture Liangliang took.

He's in the States right now as a pilot trainee, and we sent him a birthday gift, attaching a card plus a picture of us, to tell him we're doing fine in Singapore. Awaiting for your return Liangliang!

He's the life party in bb's group and somehow whenever bb have gathering with his friends, something seems to be missing in the picture. I guess it's his amazingly lameness that brings the laughter.

Ok, time for bed. Good night!