Maid from Myanmar

Next year, i will be moving out from my current house. Part of "care-giving" policy, decided to get my parents a maid. They prefer one from myanmar, so now we pending for her arrival, Documents have been completed, now pending MOM approval and things to move forward. Personally, i like her from the photo, hopefully she will help to make things better at home.

Collected keys on 14 Sep!

Back-dated post coz you know, after get the keys, alot of barangs to handle.

14 Sep - Collect Keys Day!

Super proud owner of a happy unit in Natura Loft. Collected the keys, and follow FIL & MIL to do some praying before we go in. Mum came too, surprisingly stood there quietly and act like a passer-by. Some un-understandable steps in praying etc, but nvm.. just follow lor.. Hubby went back camp, while i went to buy some barang barang. Bought us a pair of matching slippers from Ripple, only to realise that i buy the wrong size for him. He say he is not size 8. =( must remember again, is 9! I even train down to ikea for my happy red dustbin. ^^

15 Sep - PM leave, SP Services is coming~

Finally get my water & electricity! Those who buy a dbss will need to consider that they should ask for a turn on schedule on the day they collect the eys, 14 Sep was horrible, no water, no air-con. 15 Sep was wonderful. i enjoy the cold air from the aircon and the ability to wash my feet~ *happy* And immediately, i bought a red pail with matching mop for hubby to clean the house!! *evil*

17 Sep - House Inspection + Gas switched on.

Very happy to have da jie & yan to help us on house inspection!! My house was like full of masking tapes with label after the day. Gas was switched-on on the same day and we finally had hot water coming out from tape. *happy x2* Dad came over to peek at the new house, BIL bought us lunch. Little Shannon was very happy running in the small but empty house. Godpa & Godma came over for a sneak preview too. Thanks everyone including yan's parent who gave us a lift home.

After 17 Sep (the day we submitted defects), we spent our time finding more defects and checking on old defects. Slam table is a very important step in this phase. Good luck to me.

Hard Time vs Happy Time

Recently, life have been very messy.

1. Got my keys & busy time
2. Some issues @ home making life tougher.
3. Other things regards to wedding is on going
4. New project awarded, old project not closed, double busy.

Follow me on twitter if want more updates. But be all prepared to see complains.

Will update soon ^^

Polling + Photoshoot + Ramen

A hectic month is coming to the end with listening to stories from the different candidates. In fact, i wasn't very concern about it. Read up before the day to vote and make sure i know how the 4 ppl were. As far as i know, i make a valid vote. It seems like i have successfully build a can't be bothered attitude such that i din care abt the election, nor the pre-wed photoshoot. The only thing that got me excited was the phone call on 26 Aug from Hubby that we are getting our keys in Sept!! =D

From Polling to my long weekend

27 Aug - Election

Woke up in the morning with a hungry stomach. Coz was OTing till freaking late the night before and din had dinner. Brother came and gave me buns but i wasn't in the appetite. It was polling day, so i took a ride in bro's car and went over the PS to cast my vote. went home to rot infront of the TV for a while coz i nv watch TV for long. Then went back and mug some korean drama before dressing up to meet Max 5 for BBQ session. I dunno if i'm suay or what but the 2 BBQ in the month failed due to the rain. so we had steam boat instead.

Pin bought Tea Machiato for us which makes me totally hooked over it.

After steamboat, we played games related to Chinese Language and it is damn funny. I love them for the fact of the similiar level of Chinese such that we can enjoy such games. And they gave me another reason to love them! They bought me a mahjong table and mahjong set for my bday!! *hugz* exactly what i need for my new house!! I hope yun will win with this set! =D

28 Aug - Bridal Fitting again

Bridal Fitting for alteration in size before the photoshoot. The lady was so nice to remove the 2 awful gem for me as i really dislike them. After fitting, i wanted Hubby to try Freshness Burger Onion Rings but only to realise NEX Freshness Burger is closed =( Wendy's does not look appetiting, so we ended up in Wala Prata, which turns out to be pretty good. *happy*

30 Aug - Preparing for Photoshoot + Mooncake

Last minute prep, do gelish nails, cut hair. The UV lights to dry the gelish nail polish is damn hot compared to the 1st time i do. I secretly suspect that it is gg to make my hands dark. =(

After mani-pedi, i met up with Hubby for a good lunch at Togi. At times i need my korean food replenish. I love Togi food, and i'm looking forward to trying Kim's one day. Since at that area,

Hubby & I went majestic restaurant to pick up some mooncake for my Godma. I seriously think Majestic Baked Skin Mooncake rox, but i cannot say the same for the snowskin.

01 Sep - Back to ZHSS

I was almost in tears when i see Mrs Koh. I din get to see her when i was back previously and is really happy to see her. Mr Choo increase his size by approx 50% from 10 years ago (Man in middle-age). After 10 years, i still see him getting beaten by secondary school girls. Wonder if he is M too. Ms Tan (bio teacher) has moved to another school, gotta email her soon to keep in contact.

02 Sep - Photoshoot

Am i the only bride who is not interested in Photoshoot? Apart from waste a day of leave, i need to wake up early, reach there to do my makeup & damage my hair with tons of styling products and curling tools. We had indoor photoshoot till 4pm, then proceed to 3 different places for outdoor shoot. Sis was so sweet to pop by with lunch and drinks for us. After the whole day of physical torture, i thought i will be really dead-tired but no. I reached home and cooked penne for Hubby as dinner ^^. However, that night i slept early and for 8 hours, which is very rare for a little sleeper like me.

04 Sep - Ramen Champions

A sunday that i woke up early but have nothing to do. I spring-clean my whole room while waiting for Hubby to have my 1st meal of my day, aka dinner. I decided to go for Ramen Champion at Iluma after reading tweets from kevin in the morning regarding bario ramen. Tried bario & tetsu ramen. i prefer the bario's soup but prefer tetsu noodles. As tetsu's gyoza is not my taste, i went in search for nicer gyoza and ended up at ikousha.

After buying the gyoza, a small incident happen.

When walking back to my seat, someone called me. I looked at the person and think if this person is from zhss, nyp, nus. Nope, all wrong. then i look at ppl ard him and got a shocked. And i walk off... T___T How on earth can i forget someone who i just saw few days ago and just msg like minutes ago? =( Damn paiseh after that such that i msg the person to apologize. especially for walking away!! I think i was freaky rude!! =(

Shoes + Steak + CC Club

This year august practically overlapped with the lunar 7th month. No particular superstition but alot of praying, burning of paper etc.

What i do when the pres-candidate were trying to get votes

13 Aug - Leaping Lizard

Leaping Lizard is the place i made my shoes for my ROM. I love how comfy it is such that i dun really mind the cost. It was really worth while and pretty. Hubby went down with me to the shop coz i wanted to make a pair of shoes for work. However, to my horror, they have decided to fold the business and the last order was on 11 Aug (I was 2 days late). Upsetn & shocked, but nice Wendy (from the shop) let me order shoes!! I can't wait and i make one for wedding, one for work, and one for night activities (wedding dinner etc). 3 pairs turn out to be $800 with the 3rd pair being the most expensive. But it is all worth-while!! Can't wait to do shoe fitting!

14 Aug - Vegan Burger

Woke up early to cook to pray coz it is the 15th of the 7th month! By 11am, completed most stuff and get myself ready to go out. Was having a very lazy mood and just dress and go out w naked face.

Met up with shuhan for a simple nice lunch at Vegan Burger as a simple meetup ard my bday. Shuhan is really nice to accomodate to my horribly-packed schedule =). kkg went along and i would say the place is really interesting... Just that i'm carnivore. But this is really good once in a while =D

16 Aug - Walking back home from Boon Keng

Met up with ah boy & euxil for dinner at a teochew restaurant at boon keng area. Dinner was very filling and we decided to walk back. It was really a nice stroll crossing overhead bridge @ CTE & PIE. Ended our journey somewhere near kkg house and cab home from there.. kinda =__=..

17 Aug - Robinson Closed Door Sale

Who says we need to take leave for such sales? Make good used of your male colleagues!! We had lunch at Raffles City, and i pull the guys into robinson with me. It was great to have them queuing for me while i fight w the ladies at the Clarins counter. After i'm done, the queue is still very long and the guys were at mid of the queue. LIM went up to pick some shirts from lvl 3, which proves to be a good buy!!

19 Aug - Dinner at Prime Society

If you follow my twitter, you will know that this steak is freaky good that i really think i can never eat another piece of lower grade steak. I had white wine for a starter which was perfect, then steak with a bottle of wine. The meal is so awesome! The total bill turns out to be over $300 and the payer wanted to pay for the whole bill... *guilty*

20 Aug - CC Club

BBQ failed again. Heavy rain came and go. I prepared stuffed mushroom for pot-luck. Love beehoon prepared by ros's mum. Ros's sis have this bottle of alcohol which claims to be 80%. I finish half a bottle and i think i was more steady than ever. Hard to believe it is 80%. Finally get to see Jaemin Chairman and Molly unni (who i really like). It is so fun sitting near them coz i get to eat all the kim bap that Jaemin makes! Stories abt her young days and work are really very interesting!

Sixter + Birthday + National Day.

August is my birthday month. To me is a month that is damn special and i seriously adores everyone who were born in August. =P Usually i will do alot of special thing in the month of August to make myself happy but working really makes the month sux.

Some summary from end July to start of August.

30 Jul - Mattress Sale + Mahjong!

Slumberland is my fav brand for bed & mattress. With recognition from the Royal Family, i have no doubt that it is good! Hubby like this $3k mattress which i think is too crazy to buy. We went to slumberland sale and OMG, it was a steal. The $3K mattress is seling for $1.5k. No doubt, we snapped it, and even bough a set of bed frame + mattress for my dad at < $1.5k (Queen Size). We seriously left the place super-duper happy.

Then i met up with Max-5 (Max-4 that day) to play mahjong at yun's house. Yun's luck still nv improve. I hope she can gain back her victory in my new house with the new mahjong set (details on the next post)

31 Jul - Sixter meetup!

My bridesmaid were damn fun!! 5 of the sixters met up. Though i have indicated that we will not meet unless all are available, but euxil was sick on that day. After small discussion with the maid-of-honor, we decided to proceed with it~ I'm so glad that the gers can get along with each other and we actually spent quite some time in the restaurant talking. Lovely bridesmaids, started on what games to play with etc! And also thankful that each of them willing to help me with some crappy chores for the wedding. Ain't i fortunate? <3

03 Aug - Birthday

Had to go back to work due to an important presentation. Lunch was bad, but thank god the gers in the office got me a small cake before i rush for the afternoon presentation. After presentation, LIM bought me a bday cake from Canele!! After some googling, i realise the cake cost $80!! very generous of him! especially when my boss suppose to pay but he say he will pay instead. i was told that he even eat snake to walk to raffles city to buy when we having presentation.

Dinner was at Todai but was nothing great. Though alot of variety, but i think the quality is average good. Hubby say i have a pampered tongue. So too bad, it isn't up to my standard especially for a bday dinner. I think i will skipped buffet and go for good quality food from now on.

Hubby bought me a cake from metrocakes *copycat*. Nice dark knight that was so good that my bro keep praising when he ate it the next day ^^

06 Aug - Bridal Fitting

As 02 Sep was the photoshoot, we had to go one month in advance to choose the gowns etc. In fact, there are 2 white gowns for me, one which i will wear on the actual day, while the other one for outdoor shoot. I won't say that what i have choosen is fantastic, but i think the actual day gown complements. The evening gown is in a gorgeous color, but the sequins & gems makes me feel very "foreign". But well, the lady is nice enough to let me choose another evening gown closer to my wedding date, as well as the tea-dress(coz i rejected the gua)

07 Aug - Makan with kanojo-tachi

A belated bday celebration for me. But afterall, i seldom pre-celebrate with ppl coz i love celebrating in the month of August to make August wonderful. Hop to my grandma place in the morning to give my godma her bday red packet, and i even got one in return. ^^ Then at abt 2:30pm, rush off to thomson plaza to meet the gers!! We had nice dim sum at peach garden and again conclude that dim sum is not for our age. We cannot eat as much as we does previously. The dim sum as usually is really good. I think i have came here with many of my friends with exception of Max-5 & poly-friends.

09 Aug - Shopping for more discount~

As August is birthday month, i get 20% discount or more for many of the shops that i holds a membership. Bought some clothes from espirit including some baggy shorts & 3/4 for home wear. Also bought some nice clothing for Hubby too! I love his pink-blue top & his V-neck T-shirt, but he dun like the V-neck coz he is not used to it.

Abit too lengthy so i gotta split it into a few parts....