My June Schedule

Busy Busy~~ Juggling between work, 2xfamily and alot of lovely friends is definitely a tough task~

By thumb of rule, i try to keep to 2-3 weekdays to spend with my cinderella each week.
Thus i post my June schedule here so that all who have not secure a date can do so asap.

By the way, for any weekend booking, please let me know like 2 weeks in adv? I usually go back our parents place on weekend night. Just let me know in advance, so that i can reschedule and give you time! especially for special events~ ^^

X - Date Blocked (Generally for family)
R - Reserved Date
O - Free Day
A - Best Preferred Days to meet
B - Second Preferred Days to meet
F - Can meet, but i rather don't if possible

Week 1
01 (Fri): X
02 (Sat): X
03 (Sun): X

Week 2
04 (Mon): O - B
05 (Tue): O - B
06 (Wed): O - F
07 (Thu): Meeting Shuhan
08 (Fri): Amanda's 21st Birthday
09 (Sat): X
10 (Sun): Doreen's Bday Celebration

Week 3
11 (Mon): O - A
12 (Tue): X
13 (Wed): X
14 (Thu): O - A
15 (Fri): Dinner with Poly Classmates
16 (Sat): R - Reserved for in-law side
17 (Sun): Father's Day Celebration

Week 4
18 (Mon): O - B
19 (Tue): Pedicure
20 (Wed): X
21 (Thu): preparing dumpling ingredients
22 (Fri): make dumplings
23 (Sat): Dragon Boat/Dumpling Festival + Max5 Gathering
24 (Sun): R - Reserved for in-law side

Week 5
25 (Mon): O - A
26 (Tue): X
27 (Wed): O - A
28 (Thu): Manicure
29 (Fri): Monthly Steak Day
30 (Sat): O - B

Reserved Dates can be open up later so let me know if u wanna meet up on that day instead.

July is open for reservations, part from 1st, 20th, 26th July which is out for now. Tata~

Calling a new flat "my home"

It may sound abit silly. But on the friday night after gg back from a date with MAX 5, i actually missed home. Missed my old home i mean. Coz on friday nights, i generally do not sleep early, may chat to wee wee wee hours with my mum and into bed after 6am(sat) and only wake up after the sun way high up & bright.

But busy really will help one to forget this. I kinda salute my friends who went overseas work or study for months or years. I guess they do miss home too, but i guess i'm kinda kiddish.

The biggest problem about marriage is accomodating another person. Mon - Fri, when no OT, no meet up with friends, i cook. Planning is very impt for this. Do not cook fussy food, and make sure food and be ready within 30mins - 45mins max. Sat - Sun, gotta go back my house or his house. When i request/suggest to go back on a fortnightly basis, my hubby will frown like a child who wanna go home right now. =( As a result, lesser private time after wedding, more "family" time.

Though said so much, hubby still gives me my private time. He knows that i need me-time, so he will give me my private time doing my web-stuff, skin-care stuff or drama stuff. However, i haven even start watching a japanese drama since back from honeymoon coz time is all spend on the taiwan variety. Maybe can catch up on some this weekend..

Sunday, we finally fixed up the outdoor shoe-rack. Alot more of touching up, deco and fixing to do. we are now ripping the VCD & DVD into our hard-disk so that we can have more space to accomodate my massive barang barang.. In fact, i can "proudly" say that i took over 90% of the storage space at home, and i gotta clear to drop the number 80% coz hubby makes me feel he very poor thing.. (and plus sales is coming)

So if you guys are interested to know when is house-warming.. I guess it wun be so soon. I'm hoping to have one by July, but highly dependent on when my wedding album is ready, i would love to share the photojournal with all of you.

Hopefully more updates during this weekend. + photos~

How's marriage life?

Finally back to my essay days~ ^^ 


2012 is a real hectic year for me. So bad that for this is the 2nd post of the year. But if you follow my tweets, you still get live updates of me!


So finally, 21 April 2012 we finish the customary wedding. It was a dream wedding. I had the string quartet to play live music, and i have wedding tickets design by yun, custom-made angbao box by the gers, dessert bar and many many more awesome stuff~ i'm waiting for the pictures from photographer and will be posting up on facebook. 


After wedding, we had days of packing & packing for the honeymoon! I'm really really happy that we went europe and it was really fun~ more updates later and till then..


Meanwhile, it is alot of unpacking, washing and till i'm back on track, i will hold my house-warming~ ^^


P.S.: I'll pull out some nice photos and blog on it shortly.. Tata~

New Year Resolution 2012!!

Happy Happy New Year~ It has been a while since i last posted, i hope i'm not missing my readers~ ^^

It has been a busier time since after i got my keys and things are getting so crazy!

Alot of things to prepare for house & the upcoming wedding in April, so i thought it means a new phrase of life and the more i should write my new year resolutions though i dun really keep to them =P

1. Say goodbye to work at 6pm.
Or latest, additional of minutes that i'm late.

2. Keep new house clean & tidy, forever!

3. Eat at home as often as we can!

4. Save $$ for our 1st automobile~

5. Sleep earlier..
Wake up earlier..

6. Better care of skin
aging in progress

7. Exercise regularly w hubby
jog at the park or a swim in the nearby pool

8. Plan my leave way in advance to prevent any unrecorded leave.

As far as now, i have started to plan tons of my leave!! ^^

Take leave?

Yeah, the 1st 50% explains how i feel. However, the after-vacation part is not the same. Tons of email have to be cleared and tons of work to be done. Therefore i serious don't like off-in-lieu and i love public holiday. Thanks deepavali for its arrival and thankful that hari raya haji is on a sunday that give the following monday a public holiday across the whole singapore. My users/clients/colleagues don't work, so work don't build up.

Since now is november, it is the usual season that my boss will nag nag nag regarding clearing leave, but in fact he started long ago.
I started to clear alot of leave just before the start of the new project, bringing the number of days to clear by december to 9 days.
Still as issue. =(

9 days to clear by December 2011
9 days to clear by March 2012
6 days to clear by 21 Apr 2012 (wedding leave)
Then, if i stay on in the same co
9 days to clear by December 2012

How to clear 9 days within 2 months when
1. Cannot take long leave >> scheduled meeting on monday & thursday morning (Project C)
2. Cannot take full day leave >> key user only works in the morning/half-day (Project B)
3. Afternoon are packed with clearing work (Project A, B, C)

In fact, the best option is to clear on afternoon (option 03), but considering that i cab to work, it would be a $$-saving if i take a full day leave. Haizzzz

Worse still the OT returns, not that frequent, but enough to make me feel sad coz i'm generally alone or with ah boy who OT becoz he got nothing to do even he goes home =S.

I want a good break... why work recently no low-peak at all? =(

Crap before Maid Arrives

MOM rejected my application for a maid becoz we use Joint-Employment Scheme.

Parties to blame
MOM - Inflexible
Maid Agency - not good enough w MOM Schemes

Some background information:

We wanted to employ a maid from myanmar to help us in day-to-day household chores. As i will be moving out approximately 6 months from now, i think that it will be better if we employ now so i have some time to teach her how to accomodate to our family life-styles as well as making her a part of the family before.

Therefore, after some research, i got into this agency becoz i like the maid 1st impression from the photo. Her CV/Resume/Bio-data seems to be what we are looking for. After 1 hour or less discussion with mum, we are ready to employ her.

The agency gave documents to fill in such that she can apply as a Joint-Employment Scheme for us. Currently, regardless if i'm the employer or my mum is the employer, we are entitled to concession levy due to my dad's age. However, this is no longer application for me if i change the address on my NRIC. Therefore the best opinion is to put my mum's name, but since my mum is not working, there is a need to submit somebody(which is me)'s income tax to proof our ability to employ a maid. So anyway, the in-charge in agency say "Can can, Joint-Employment!" WTH. Her lack of knowledge gives me more problem because MOM rejects my application based on the following rules

For Joint-Employment Scheme, both employers need to be working and the salary as an individual is not enough to qualify to employ a Foreign Domestic Worker

Then the stupid agency person says "But you cannot apply under sponsorship scheme becoz you are staying together!" WTH! Joint-Employment also cannot wat! You dunno say dunno, dun act smart, tell me you dunno and i would have called MOM to check before submitting the application, wasting a good 3-5 working days of waiting.

Anyway, now, the application is with MOM, waiting for approval. In such scenario, just apply under sponsorship scheme and with a signed-letter, explain that the sponsor is moving out of the house soon so would prefer someone(w no income) living in the house to be the employer. It has to be manual submission with the letter, and cannot use online application. For all scenarios that you are unsure, i suggest that leave a msg at the MOM website, and they will get back by latest next working day. Forget about calling them, their hotline sux.

Totally crap ass.

By the way, in case you are wondering why we din apply using Fixed Deposit Statements, coz it is a hassle for my mum to travel down to do the barang barang, so i rather settle for her. =)