Things that i should avoid buying

... for at least till end this year or even next year..

This morning while dressing for work, i was thinking "how many new/unopened eye-shadow palette do i have?"

I grasped. 2 Lavshua, 2 Integrate, 1 from sephora, 1 Urban Decay and 2 Anna Sui
It was in the 2nd drawer so i open the 1st drawer and see.. Clinque eye-shadow only used twice. Haiz...

There are alot more that i cannot buy...

I'm using SK-II eye-cream, finally it is finishing.. But i still have 2 more eye-cream in queue. Estee Lauder & Laneige. I bet they can last me till nx June coz i have been using the SK-II since before wedding and it last me abt 4-6mths. To think that it is a small bottle and laneige is big.. OK, i guess i have enough eye-cream till Dec2013.

Bags... I love bags... and i have quite some and i'm saving for the next Designer Bag (maybe Celine).. so maybe i should stop buying 1st.. (Urgh..i just saw the green one at new look that i really like)

Shoes... after coming back from honeymoon, i bought approximately 8 pairs of shoes. One down (meaning like in bad condition), and most not even wore once. Yes.. i better stop buy HEELS in specific.

Foundation/BB Cream.. I have SK-II, L'oreal x 2 type, Maybelline x 2.... Enough till Dec2013 too

Hair Treatment... 2 big tubs + 1 tube + 10 one time use tube + 10 hair end treatment.... Enough till end this year i believe

Cleanser... at least 3 new bottles =(

Body Bath. Yes, i have erm.. too many bottles to count

Body Butter/Body Lotion/Hand Cream... COUNTLESS TOO

Mascara.. 1 lavshua, 1 Maybelline, 1 L'oreal, 3-4 Majolica, 1 Estee Lauder unopened

Eyeliner.. more than 5 and less than 10 from Majolica

CRAZY.... stock i have..

How do u spent your bonus?

I reward myself when i get a bonus. After working hard for a year, it will be good say tell yourself thanks.

I started work in year 2008.

2008 bonus was pro-rated. I did not get anything for myself.
2009, Boss Fou was in france, I got him to buy me a LV card holder. I was really poor, but wanted something.
2010, I wanted a bag, but again was poor due to saving for house & wedding, i got myself a longchamp.
2011, I save up the bonus coz the following year i'm gg to europe. I bought myself a prada wallet & key-pouch
2012, I bought myself a miu miu bag with the bonus.

what's in for me in 2013? I'm looking at mont blanc now. =D

Hello July~

Half a year has passed, have you done what you wanted to?
Usually at this time i would be counting $$ and thinking what i wanna do..

After i got my bonus, i drop a big amt (big to me) to my parents and left with peanuts to continue.

This time is great. Coz i no longer have to save for wedding or house. Thus my pondering started

1. Is CPF really enough for retirement?
Consider that i bought a flat at age 23, i would need to pay till 53yo. And at 53yo, i'm like 12 years away from the retirement. Retirement nest will be like so small and how am i suppose to survive? Therefore i dig out the retirememt plan that when i was 22yo. Oh shit, i need 1.2m to retire lor.. so now i'm like gg 27 thus 65 - 27 = 38 years to save. Using a linear algorithm, i will need to save abt 31.5k per year. This seems damn tough, so i change to a non-linear curve instead.. also need abt 20++ k.. =(
Nevertheless, this amount is important. Whether i need it or not considering about the Special Account in CPF, i still need some savings.. so gotta jiayou on saving without compromising the life i wanna live. And this means a pathetic result. I gotta find a high-pay-job. I'm looking for a job with minimum annual pay at 80k. Please reco if any (i'm not joking about the 80k)

2. Car or no car.
I really wanted one even though i cannot drive. Afterall driving is tiring that's why i hate to do so. But my hubby can drive, so he can drive me around while i enjoy KOI and music in the passenger seat. I'm looking at the list of 2nd-hand car but provide the hubby is working well. He is looking at a change of job and he is really working hard on it. But i can somewhat feel that the response of that job is bad.. shall i apply for that instead? If hubby fails to get the job, shall i go for it? But the idea of working at TUAS and 7am - 4pm with alt sat makes me wanna cry sia~ =( However if i get this job, i may consider 1)buy car, 2)learn to drive.

3. What is the next target in life?
I suppose to go for japanese lesson placement test last month. Coz the japanese lesson will start this month. Up till now, i have not went for it, and i'm utterly disappointed at myself. Haiz.. should make a phone call soon.

I start to wonder if i can live like the way my hubby & his siblings does. Have a simple life and ask for nothing much. In fact, the way i'm brought is not so simple. We were taught to look at higher points and move upwards whenever we can.. so it is going to be very tough when i have someone who is not moving with me.

@_@

That day i was randomly reading some blog and i come across a letter that a girl wrote to a blogger regarding her love problems. The content go generally like this.

Basically, everytime my friends have a party or a movie outing, I always invite my BF to come along. He is my partner and I like having him with me.

But yesterday, I got into an argument with him because one of his friends (female) whom I haven't met yet, invited him to her birthday BBQ. I asked if I could come along and he said no because I wasn't invited.

This is not the first time something like this has happened. I have tried talking to him about this matter... but no change! Everytime he has an outing or gathering, he never invites me to join him... and it's not like it's a boy's night out kinda thing.

I am upset because when he got the invite, he didn't think to ask her if he could bring his girlfriend. We have been together for 1 year now. It's not as if I am just a new friend so his friend does know that he has a girlfriend yet she didn't have the courtesy to invite me as well???

Am i over reacting?

My bf & i are serious opposite in this. He is the type who always ask me along when his friends/colleagues etc ask him out/invite him to a party etc. Whereas for me, i seriously do not enjoy doing it. I dunno why he does so, pershaps he is like this like this ger who like the company of his/her partner. But as for me, i have my reasons.

1. I don't live my life around a man
I believe lovey-dovey crazy time is only during the 1st few months. We each have our own life to lead and i don't want to be involve too much in his life or too much involvement from him in my life. i believe that we need to have our own time, meet up with our friends and do the catching up, w/o ppl who don't blend in.

2. Doesn't it just make things awkward?
I kinda dislike the idea when during a gathering, my guy friend bring his gf, or ger friend bring her bf. Don't you think it is kinda irritating when you have to be careful talking to ur guy friend becoz his gf is ard, or can't really talk to your ger friend about personal things becoz she is linking arms with a guy? I think it is fine to attend parties together as a couple. But i don't like the "tagging along to outing/gathering" kind of feeling.

Be fair, there are some exceptional cases that i can accept my friend bring his/her partner along.
a. he/she wanna introduce to us
b. an announcement of marriage
c. we belong to the same clique.
d. your partner is invited!! e.g. parties!!
e. everyone is bring their the-other-half along.

Strictly speaking, i have only bring my bf to meet my friends 3 times?

1. Boss (Yan Hao)'s birthday party. Yan Hao invited him. But at the end, i realise that it was not right. I find the guys don't talk to me like the way they used too.
2. With the gers @ some pub. In fact, i was drinking with the gers, and he came to pick me for a movie, so he came in to say hello while the gers get introduced to him.
3. Our mutual friend's birthday. KTV. So maybe this is not counted?

Of coz, i'm not being fair, coz there may be a chance that the guy in that letter have something to hide. But if the guy happen to be like me, then i suggest the ger to start meeting up her friends alone, w/o the presence of her bf. She will realise that what she has been missing.