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NYC – Day 5 ☂

7 September

Actually this NYC trip is really tiring.. either that or we are getting old. Haha.. By the 5th day, we r exhausted from my early mornings and late nights 🙁 Anyhow, we still make it a point to wake up EARLY so that we can be on Good Morning America (GMA) – morning show which we watch everyday… haha… I think I’m very lucky, because the KARDASHIANS were on the show and I get to see them live!!! 😀 I was so excited!!!








Haha… we came back home and watched ourselves on GMA here It was so funny to see ourselves on TV, esp me waving like a maniac! haha… luckily none of my friends could see me.. hehe.. Fun experience!

Next, we headed to Flushing Meadows for US OPEN

Rem I told you there’s weird pple on the subway? haha… This is one of the funny incidents. So there was this asian lady on the train. She was talking really loudly on the phone. She kept repeating ‘No’ for at least 30 times then she said ‘No, I’m no sleepy’ for another X no. of times. OMG! I don’t know why but it’s so funny… so I started to giggle… then the pple surrounding me start giggling , one lady even laughed out loud. BH quickly got me to cover myself with my hoodie – he was afraid tt I will kenna bash. haha.. anyhow.. i need to demo to you then u will know that it’s funny.. haha… now thinking of it.. it still mks me laugh… wahahaha… “I no sleepy!!!!”

Luckily we reached the stadium fast enough… else I think it’ll die from controlling my laugher. haha…





Watched Nadal vs Muller for 17 mins then match was suspended due to the rain!!! We hang around the area until evening then left when the organisers declared that the match for the day will be cancelled. Bh was very disapted. The more heartpain thing was we paid $100+ for the tix!





As we were feeling quite sore that we wasted time and money … BH received an email that the amt we paid for the US OPEN TICKETS will be REFUNDED!!! yayness!! In fact, it had been refunded already 🙂 Lucky us! Great organisers!

Our last dinner at NYC was at Serendipity3 – which I get to know from 1 of the episode of ‘Keeping up with the Kardashians’ The food was so-so. The must try is FROZEN HOT CHOCOLATE – very poisonous but super nice! The server is not too friendly… maybe it’s just new yorkers… they are not very friendly? hmmm..no offence BUT I have a feeling that the worst americans resides in NYC!




Just as we were enjoying dinner, the doctor’s office called and informed me about the lab results. Oh well.. I got worried and I didn’t feel too happy after that 🙁 Now I can only pray that things will get better when I see Dr Le next week.

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NYC – Day 4 ☂

6eptember

Times flies! It’s our 3rd wedding anniversary! Though we know each other for a long time… we are still learning new things about each other every day! haha.. So glad to spend this day overseas with BH – I wonder how would it be like next yr… I’m just very happy that we are together now.. and I hope that we will NEVER get tired of each other 🙂

It was a rainy day.. sianz.. see the umbrella on the tittle of this post? haha.. Got this cute symbol from my cousin, Demi on Facebook. the point is…it’s very sianz to travel in the rain..so most of the time I’m carrying an umbrella in the pictures.. luckily, most of our activities planned were indoors ( we gave Central Park a miss)

We headed to American Museum of Natural History





It was crowded with lots of kids! Anyway, I was super excited to see the dinosaurs!





and you can have the hands-on experience to look for dino bones! 😀 It’s fun!






Dino bones overload… I’m starting to wonder if they are even real??!!!

This museum is HUGE! It’s like a cultural centre + Zoo + Aquarium. haha… they are many figurines of animals/insects which looks very real! :O I think kids in NY nv really need to go to the zoo.. hehe… I love the whale, it’s HUGE!!!



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Headed to the New York Public Library next. It’s really nice.. with a ‘Harry Potter’ feel





Noticed my change in attire? I was underdressed for the cold, wet weather.. so I bought a pair of leggings and a sweater from H&M to change into. I was tempted to buy a pair of Hunter Rainboots too.. haha.. I see many NYers wearing them.. so cool!


Next stop….





Then it was finally time for WICKED! BH and I were looking forward to this musical ever since we heard ‘Defying gravity’ on Glee





We enjoyed the musical very much… I thought that it was very touching and I teared 🙁 I think I also saw BH tearing at the corner of my eyes.. heh… You need to watch it if u go to Broadway 😀

Ended the night with dinner at Totto Ramen Waited 45mins for our seats in the cold and wet weather. I was quite relieved to have a hot bowl of delicious ramen after a long wait. We felt that the ramen broth is delicious BUT the amt we paid for was ex, considering that there’s only 2 pcs of meat? It was authentic ramen nevertheless, better than what we can get here in Seattle 🙂


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NYC – Day 1

One thing that BH and I love is travelling. haha.. whether we like travelling with each other or not… that’s another story. Haha… ever since I am on NPL, we or rather I make it a point to plan our vacations early so that we can take advantage of the early bird deals. For our NYC trip, AA (American Airlines) sent BH a voucher for BOGO air tix to any of the 50 states in US. There are many places we could go… BUT we thought that since we have this voucher, going to NYC mks the most sense (more value for money). We booked the tix and the fare came up to be about US$350 RT per person , w/o any transit in between.

3 September

We set off *NOT TOO EARLY* We realised that we kinda calculated the time wrongly… so we rushed to the airport. More haste, less speed. We took the wrong freeway and needed to detour. Trying to keep calm… we managed to reached the airport just in time. phew… we even had time to buy breakfast, just that no time to eat.

Flight to JFK took about 5hrs… From the plane, we can already see that NYC is filled with a whole lot of skyscrappers… very urbanised.. kinda like SG?





Reached the airport and took the train to our hotel. It was easy to find and relatively near the subway. We stayed at Four Points Sherton Midtown Times Square BH managed to get us 5 nights for FREE by redeeming his points. The hotel was very clean and nice. Just that the toilet design wasn’t that good – I feel that their shower area needed a curb to stop water from flowing out when showering. Shan’t complain much since it’s free. haha…

Without much ado, we put down our barang and headed out for dinner at Taboon Initially, BH planned for seafood dinner BUT due to my infection, I got to stay off seafood for a while. Sob… well.. I like Mediterranean food too 🙂 It was a hearty dinner (NOT the best) BUT we were disapted that they don’t have the New York Resturant Week menu on a Saturday





After dinner, we head to Times Square. OMG! It’s very crowded and touristy





Then we ended our day.. haha.. too tired from the early morning’s flight and trying to get used to the time difference

I know.. the first day isn’t too exciting… haha.. it will get better.. really 😀

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The thing about Bing

I thought that I must write this down before I become senile and forgot all these little things… haha.. nothing mushy.. or nothing to boast about.. it’s just like how sometimes I’ll just jokingly say how bad or screwed up BH is but he’s actually pretty good to me. I actually wanted to blog about this for a very long time BUT I just didn’t. These small things may seem nothing to you BUT to me, it means alot.

I consider myself very blessed that BH is willing to spend money on me.

1) Rem how I was admiring Chanel bags? haha.. in my humble opinion, anybody will be turned off by the price BUT BH? He actually did his research, contacted a no. of SA and surprised me with a WOC (Wallet on Chain) – It’s an early Wedding anniversary gift. Wow! I was very happy and impressed! Though I still think that the 2nd proposal ring was the BEST gift ever! Nothing could top that!

2) Then my customer bought a pair of Ferrogamo shoes. BH was the one who saw the real thing ( I was in SG) He was like ” It’s very nice la… you will love it! ” Opps… he planted the thought in my head – now I’m itching for a pair of Ferrogamo shoes. Sigh.. BH pounced at every chance to show me the Ferrogamo shoes and at Korea airport, I tried on a pair and loved it – we nearly bought it! I know.. even if it’s US$400 if I want it, he will get it for me. I am so touched just thinking of it 🙂 In the end, he got me $100 Bloomingdales card, so that we cld shop for Ferrogamo in NY! haha…

3) Sometime back, we went out for dinner with his collegues. I was telling BH how nice his collegue’s gf’s coat is. Then BH bought me to Macys and started to frantically find a similar looking one for me. haha… erm… not sucessful.. The US sizes just don’t quite fit me

and of course, they are many more small things…

Just that why are all these small things so hard to do when you are on a LDR? I mean.. such actions or small gestures just disappear when I was back in SG? If only he can still be this nice to me when we are really really apart then maybe it won’t be that difficult

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Less than perfect weekend?

haha.. nah.. don’t get it wrong.. my weekend had been quite fruitful and fun. It was nice to finally get into the momentum of things, doing things we like. The weather had been awesome, it was very sunny BUT not humid. I am also glad that after 1.5 weeks and lots of exercise, we finally snap out of the ‘jetlag’ 🙂 phew!

The thing about me is I like to wake up bright and early so that we won’t waste the day! So on saturday, BH and I woke up at 7 then drove to a nearby park for tennis. oh.. did i just typed tennis? haha… I rem how BH, YM and I played tennis at NUS. man… I was such a bad tennis player then ( good ball picker though!) and I’m….. still as bad at tennis now! haha.. so I guess Tennis to me should NOT be called ‘Tennis’ .. it’s a ‘pick up balls’ sport. BH said tt playing tennis with me is like playing fetch with a dog! Boo!!! After 1 hour of pick up balls, we decided to play basketball which BH commented that I’m definitely better at.. hahaha.. at least I can ‘hamtum’ shoot some hoops! heh…

as though we were Energizer bunnies, we went to Costco to buy peaches. Heavenly peaches! I love summer… for PEACHES!!! 😀 Came home finally and BH cooked instant noodles for me.. haha.. which taste great! Looks like his INSTANT NOODLES cooking skills improved after 2.5 mths of training! haha… After the food, we went to Redmond Farmers’ Market which is a short walk away! I LOVE farmer’s market!!!! I seriously think that Redmond’s Farmers’ Market is one of the best!!!! 🙂 Bought veges there, love the fresh organic vege… more ex BUT healthy and FARM FRESH! I bought fresh flowers too!!!








Now our home smells like fresh flowers… reminds me of the flowers on our wedding day… smells so good…

No… that’s not the end of our sat. , 2 of our Singapore friends are going home for good 🙁 so we sent them to the airport. It’s sad to see friends leave.. oh well… till we meet again!

On sunday, I was tired from the previous day’s activities.. haha.. I slept in till 9am ( still early but considered late for me) Got BH to sell his rubbish on craigslist. Just as I wanted to sell my kindle ( which I raved about.. we decided that the one with special offers is better… there’s a promo code of 50% off groceries!!!) I realised that the bloody 3G is NOT working! Really sad…called customer service… he tried to troubleshoot BUT it just isn’ working.. in the end, he offered to replace.. even better 😀 Waiting for the new one to arrive

BH did his monthly hsework, change bedsheet! wah.. he’s really good at it man! Fast and neat!! 😀 I think he mks a good Chambermaid! hahaha… so blessed tt BH naturally know how to do 1 household chore PERFECTLY!

Then we learnt of a deal at Sports Authority , so we went to buy matching shoes!





Not sure how much these shoes cost in SG, it cost US$99 each BUT we did our maths and were confident that each pair will cost US$35 (before tax) if the deal is right. However, we did 1 deal wrongly, so shoes cost US$55 each. I was super disapted.. the shoes were love at first sight!!! 🙁 haha.. so we are still thinking if we shld keep these shoes or nt… hehe

Ended our night at Matador – One of our fave place to chill out because the Happy Hours ( 4-6pm) are super worth it! and.. it’s so walkable to our home, so we can drink all the alcohol we want! hahaha…

You know what? what I have now… it’s perfect… don’t think anything can replace this..

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next week. this time. he’s here!

I feel so happy and excited that I’ll be seeing BH soon! YES!! finally.. after so long (in amanda time) AND… he will be going to our new home after he land! wah… that will probably be our first night at our new place!! 😀

I think i’m gonna be happy for the rest of the week.. hahaha..

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Never be too busy for loved ones

YOU need to learn this.. really..

I was really happy and excited to share with BH abt the reno but he sounded so ‘sianz’ .. i know he’s busy (and he always is) but i can’t help feeling hurt

Hope things will be better 🙁

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24 more days to…

holding your hand, talking to you and having you here with me

I miss BH so much that the thought of having to wait so long to see him just makes me wanna cry 🙁 oh well, i know that even when BH is in SG, he will prob be spilt up between his family and friends.. I will probably be the last of his priority. I can’t deny the fact that I’m so used to having him around that I feel so lost w/o him

what if the reno is gonna complete by next week? The home is not completed w/o you

Though I’m in SG and surrounded by family and friends, I still feel lonely. In US, I only have you and the thought of ‘lonely’ is not in my head. It’s ironic and I don’t know why.

come home soon… and when u come, bring me with you…pls don’t leave me alone 🙁

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“Don’t stop believing, hold on to the feeling…”

From time to time, I have this sick feeling that BH is gonna leave me behind and not come back for me 🙁 I know… it’s my insecurities acting up… sigh… i know he is not likely to find another girl… haha… the only other person/thing he will marry is ‘WORK’ I can’t help it but to feel this way.. If only I’m a guy? Then such feelings will not exist!

Maybe I should start counting down…it’s June already, means BH will be here next month! Only 47 days more…… and reno… haven’t even started!!!! *shiver* Prays hard it will complete in time!

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Leap Year

BH and I watched Leap Year on Netflix last night. Thankfully, BH insisted on subscribing to Netflix else we won’t have the chance to catch up on movies/sitcoms!





I always wanted to watch this movie.. it was such a sweet romantic comedy.. haha.. the kind that’s sooooooo sweet that u wanna watch again and again.. and NOTHING beats watching a romantic comedy with your fave person! 😀 YES, you must go watch it… the actor is HOT!

Leap year only happens once in 4 years.. I was telling BH that it’s so romantic to get married on Leap year.. haha.. so he was like “can save money right?” heh.. oh well, partly.. but my pt is.. since it only happens once in 4 yrs, it makes celebrating it more precious! 🙂

In the movie, the male lead Declan asked the girl, Anna, “Your house is on fire, you only have 60secs, what do u take with you?” hmm… i asked BH the same qn and he was like “I will take you and maybe… BooBoo ( the swedish bulldog) ” haha… on the other hand, the first thing I wanna take is my fave ring ( the one BH gave me last yr in Hawaii) Anyway, I think BH’s response is so sweet can.. haha

To mk the movie even sweeter, there’s a scene when it played the soundtrack of ‘Dream a little dream of me’ which was our walk-in song for the wedding dinner. ( OK.. we decided on this song abt 3 hrs before the dinner… haha…v impromptu but turns out well) It brought back nice memories…

On top of that… there’s this super nice and romantic quote:

“May you never steal, lie or cheat
But if you must steal, steal away my sorrows
If you must lie, lie beside me all the days of my life.
And if you must cheat, cheat death.
Because I could not live a single day without you”

haha… I told BH that I would have included this in my wedding speech If I know about it earlier… it’s sooooo sweet! okok.. I’m a hopeless romantic…

last but not least… another nice quote from the show,“always kiss like it’s the first time and the last time” haha… that’s what I did!!! 😀 BH thinks I’m a frog.. haha





don’t laugh! Go watch the movie if u haven’t!!