BH’s sis and my sis collected keys on behalf of us! well.. I was so hoping to be there 🙁
Some pictures which BH’s sis sent us –
Our private door
Love the place with lots of natural light!
Tell me.. how can I bear to rent it out.. it’s so new… and almost perfect (except for the ugly bathroom tiles)!!
not looking forward to move 🙁 This time we are getting movers… yes.. decided not to torture ourselves anymore. So, the new place is bigger. However, I just feel that there might not be enough place to put all our things .. ok.. fine.. I like things to be neat and tidy.. I don’t like clutters .. I want everything to look good in its place.. I’m such a weirdo right!! 🙁 I want everything to be prefect… We actually went down to the new apartment to take measurements and try to visualise where everything shld be… sigh… not as ‘prefect’ as we I thought
down to packing… I only packed like 5 boxes yesterday 🙁 packing is such a pain… and I still have alot more to go
I’m not only a ‘perfectionist’ , I’m also an idealist. I was reading some of my older blog entries and I realised that I have unknowingly typed “I always thought…” This shows that I have expectations of myself which give me unnecessary stress 🙁 We(how i wish!) BH’s sister will be collecting our HDB keys for us in a few days time… I always thought we will be doing it ourselves 🙁 I feel sad that we have to miss out on the experience. The very pt that i’m going back earlier is to do some minor reno of ‘our home’. I’m disapted that BH will not be ard during this process.. because.. I always thought we’ll do this together
I like doing things together so much that I always wanna be a lower primary teacher BUT i just didn’t have the chance 🙁 oh well, that’s besides the pt… then BH was like saying that this flat is a small thing and it doesn’t matter… which mks me even more hurt. I waited so long for this and now when it’s here… I can’t mk it as perfect as I want it to be 🙁 Because of the situation we are in, our pespective is different now
Now I wish I’m always having PMS – at least I can ‘blame’ my strange mood on it
AG: Tell me.. when is everything’s gonna be perfect?
BH: Give me a few more years.. be patient.. it’s gonna be prefect!
How I wish.. I have that few more years 🙁 and for now.. I have to live in the shadow of the mistake which happened about 10 years ago
On the last day of 2010, I saw the most beautiful sunrise ever 🙂
The first few seconds of 2011, I saw pretty fireworks at the Space Needle
I always thought Seattle was beautiful BUT Seattle just got MORE beautiful as the years goes by… next mth, we’ll be moving to Redmond, so we probably won’t have this kinda view anymore… sigh… given a choice, we won’t have moved… BUT we really needed to save the extra bucks 🙁
I always believed in making resolutions every year and fulfilling them… then I guess.. resolutions don’t matter… it’s how I live my life.. I may be poor but at least… I’m happy… and I wanna continue to be happy!
In 2010, is a year of ups and downs… Behind my mostly happy blog entries, I shed many tears of regret, fear and sorrow. BH and I had been saving and working v hard to give me my freedom .. I think I did quite well in the saving money part last yr – I get freebies and participated in giveaways to the best of my abilities… I cook most of the time… BH gets lunchbox to work nearly everyday… we love travelling but cut down to save the $ ..Really hope that the sacrifices we make now will bear fruit in near future…
2011 just started and I could feel the stress financially 🙁 I really hope the financal part of our life will not affect our relationship… wish us luck! Saving money will be my ONLY goal for this year !
not many pple read my blog BUT those who does… I know u all will have a better year than me 🙂 Happy 2011 and best wishes to all!
(No Bambi.. BUT we’ve Bully!)
It’s our 3rd X’mas together over in the US of A.. loving it 🙂 It’s wet and cold outside and we are glad that it isn’t snowing! heh.. weird isn’t it?
Have fun all! I’ll blog soon!
Because of the snow.. BH had a v long weekend. While he worked at home, I had to be the maid – preparing his meals. hmmm.. I still like him at work then I can do whatever I like.. keke.. he’s ‘spying’ on me when he’s home :X
anyway, BH was working and checking on deals.. geez.. he didn’t lay a finger to help at all.. I was super busy and at the end of the day.. tired
so I made Sausage Croissant for snacks one afternoon. Played cheat.. used the ready-made dough..
Impressed that the dough already had triangles on them.. so just roll in the sauages and put in the the oven
surprisingly.. they taste good!!
Only 3 left as the rest were in our tummy!!!
For Thanksgiving dinner.. instead of Turkey, I roasted a chicken and cooked Mee Siam… how Singaporean is that! haha
Julius came over for dinner… pardon me looking so shag.. it was a long day preparing food without help.. boo
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On Black Friday itself, we went to Vancouver with Julius and friends – it was raining.. so sianz.. didn’t do much.. it was a eating trip.. and I think i gained a whole lot of weight already!
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The next day.. BH and I went to get ourselves the WINDOWS PHONE and we saw a notebook on super duper sales so we bought it! It’s probably the most geeky day ever for us .. haha
Beanie came Free with our phone… hehe.. looks good??
If you think iphone is cool… u need to try the WINDOWS PHONE! It’s way cooler! haha… and I’m loving FOTOCHOP app.. Other than that, I’m loving the overall look and simplicity of the device 🙂 At least, I don’t feel overwhelmed by looking at so many buttons/icons .. loving it!
The 1st thing I did was to put Bambi as my screensaver 😀 Happy that I could have all my fave things in 1 place
Bambi mks me smile.. though she can be very naughty.. oh well.. shh.. got her X’mas gifts already!! Can’t wait to send home!!
Okok.. BH & I also went shopping for X’mas deco and tree!!! We didn’t deco ur place last yr coz we were moving.. this yr… we are going to! Excited!!! Will show pics soon!
I think the quote above is sooooooo overused by me.. but.. parting was indeed sweet sorrow!Sweet as in BH and I can’t wait to be back to our usual routine but on the other hand, we’ll miss our family and friends
Our families met up at Dian Xiao Er T3 for dinner. My sis rushed down from work – there was some screw up with her company’s shuttle bus so she took a cab down ( which was v ex considering it’s peak hr!) I was v touched! If you know my sis.. she’s quite good at entertaining guests! I know that it must be super weird for her to talk and entertain my in-laws ( who are quiet pple) BUT she did it awefully well! I mean.. it’ll be soooo weird if the dinner table is very quiet! At least for my family, it’s nv quiet when we are together and food is always MORE than enuff.. that’s what I miss abt home.. my home!
I had a wonderful time catching up with my family in SG, even when my sis is working shifts , and is hardly ard during weekends. I guess we mk up on her off days. This time she drove us ard instead of I drive her ard 🙂 She’s grown up!!!
Erm.. with BH’s family – it was ok..no offence but i don’t feel comfy with his family some how.. their family is very much more reserved.. v v different from my family! I sure hope that MY OWN family is the open type – you know.. those talk alot and laugh out loud type… I attended BH’s extended family’s dinner and I thought of getting to know his relatives personally – his cousins actually said ” iyah.. no need to know our names.. just call us no. 1 , no. 2 and no. 3″ I was like WTF??!! I was being friendly… it’s so different from my own family 🙁
ok.. so.. finally, it was time for us to go into the gate.. i gave my family and dear friends a tight hug.. thanked BH’s mum for buying stuff for us .. held back my tears.. u know.. i’m quite a emotional person.. ohh.. my mum looked so tearful!! 🙁 Crossed the customs, waved our goodbyes.. till 6 mths later!
Bye SG, Hello Tofu-land!
My dad kindly brought us + Bambi to Marina Barrage one sunday.. just to have a look
It’s a pretty place and lotsa open spaces for Bambi to ‘bulldoze’ around.. haha
We saw alot of security guards ard… and later MM Lee arrived!
Can u spot him above??
Alot of kites!
Shall stop here today.. heh.. think I blogged like 10 entries in 1 go!
How can any blog post abt SG not include my dearest family??
Got to admit that this trip seem very short and rushed 🙁 I didn’t even taste my fave chicken rice my mum cooked neither did I mk a trip to Beach Rd to eat my fave Char Kway Teow
I was super glad that my mum stopped work for the 2 weeks and she lovingly prepared lunch for me. It’s simple cooking for her BUT it’s probably the most sumptuous lunch I had ever had in the past 2 yrs!!!
Visited my grandpa – I was very sad when I see him… my tears can’t stop flowing.. he looked skinnier and weaker than before 🙁 I just don’t wanna think of the worst
Now our family photo always have Bambi in it.. heh
Found this pic on my camera and I thought we ( including Bambi) look quite good!
13 Oct
We set off from our Seattle apt en route to SG. I was going home with a very heavy heart ( as you can read from my previous entries)
Reached the airport – tried to checked in to only realised that our luggages were overloaded. Sigh.. like some maniacs, we tried to repack our luggages to even out the load. Mental note: For US flights , 2 check-in baggages (<= 23KG) for each person. Cabin luggage <= 17KG Ok.. so with alot of F-words, we managed to checked in our luggage w/o paying the overload charge. Thank God! We took Asiana from SEA > ICN. It was an uncomfy flight as I have no idea why it was so hot and stuffy!!! BH was pretty upset that the entertainment system were not on-demand
After abt 10 hrs, we reached ICN. Asiana arranged for a FREE layover hotel ( include airport transfers + meals) as our next flight was the next afternoon..nono.. we are not on business class.. It’s just a service Asiana provide! Not bad I would say!
Bi-bim-bab served on the flight
Free stay at Hotel – not the BEST hotel BUT good enough
Free day tour at Dragon Palace Temple
Flight to ICN > SEA was way better. At least the entertainment system was on demand. haha…
when we reached SG – our family were waving frantically at us at the arrival terminal while we waited for our luggage. Now I know how animals in the zoo felt ( esp. the polar bears)
The best thing… the feud between my sis and I disappeared when we shared a Chocolate Ice Blended from Coffee Beans. haha..
