Leap Years!

It's 29 February which marks the Leap Year!

The last leap year seemed like it just passed not long ago and here comes a new leap year again.
4 years have passed so rapidly.

It was supposed to be Baby Mikaela's date of birth today but cousin and wife went for induction instead because it is quite saddening for the baby if her birthday were to be on 29 Feb isn't it?

Haven't had the chance to visit Baby Mikaela but I will definitely make it to her 1st month which will be one day after I return from Shanghai.

Say Hello to everybody Baby! 

Put your hands up yo! 

I'm very sleepy you know

Oh, I just came out from mummy's stomach, am i looking good?

Being wrapped to sleep.

Mummy kept saying that Mikaela is as fat as me when I was young. Helloooooo! The fact is she is 3.75kg but I was 3.3kg. (still fat , but not as fat okay? hehe) I was way too chubby for a baby's good. Everyone who saw me when I was a baby was like: "OMG! WHY SO FAT!" But I must say I was really adorable when I was younger. Hehe.

Walked to Mac with the lovely colleagues for lunch today because it was a special day. We mentioned that we wanted to snap a photo together on this special day but gosh, we forgot and left office without a shot!

Shall make an attempt to sleep early tonight because I didn't get to sleep well last night. I'm having the symptoms of not being able to turn in well at night and not being able to wake up on time the next morning. This is bad.

And oh, I'm really overjoyed over my results! So far out of the two semesters, I have attained 2 distinctions and 2 credits. Though having a Pass as the grades might be good enough but the fact that you are juggling over both work and school responsibilities will make you feel accomplished when you are able to attain unexpected and surprising results. I'm so glad I didn't fail that idiotic Industrial Relations, which means that I do not have to re-take that irritable module, which means...

SAYONARA IR, I NEVER WANT TO SEE YOU AGAIN! WOOOHOO~  

Estheva Spa.

Took a half-day leave off today to go back to school for the fingerprint registration.
I heard from my frenz that it's kinda stupid because the new implementation of fingerprint registration will mean the abolition of manual attendance-taking and the worst part is class will not end early anymore because the earliest you can tap out is 15mins before the actual ending time.
For instance, lesson from 7pm to 10pm, you are expected to stay till 9.45pm before you can tap out or it will be counted as absent.
Tell me how inflexible the school system is. PEK CHEK!

After the registration process, I left school and made my way to Ion Orchard for my virgin appointment at Estheva Spa for an aromatic head and shoulder massage. My shoulder is always the one giving way especially when work requires me to sit infront of my laptop for almost the whole day. It will always become so tight-up that it starts to ache every now and then.

I've been wanting to go for a proper relaxing massage all these while especially when the stress on the shoulder gets heavier and heavier. So i googled and found Estheva. Wanted somewhere convenient from school since I will be making my way down from there.

Some pictures of Estheva Spa @ Ion Orchard:

ESTHEVA SPA - ION ORCHARD

The room

The service was really good for my first time there. Upon reaching, they greeted me with a cup of tea and asked for my particulars and confirmed with me the strength of massage that I prefer and when the room was ready, they prepared the tube gown for me to change into. It was just 30mins massage but I felt real rejuvenated after that.

Initially it was kind of painful because my shoulders were really tight-up. But after awhile when it gets loosened, it felt real relaxing and I almost fell asleep. A pretty good experience and I will definitely go back there someday again.

Walked to Far East to get some drinks and bought Shilin Chicken Cutlet to snack on. Have been having the crave for the cheekan since long time ago. But eventually, I regretted buying it because I couldn't finish it.
Missed deardear because the two of us always shared the packet together and it tastes so much nicer with someone to share the food and you eat like its never enough. But the feeling was different today when I held the packet and ate it all by myself. :(

Headed home after that because I promised Mummy I would be home for dinner after being MIA from home-cooked dinner for the whole of last week.

Came home to receive a real saddening news. Couldn't control the tears within when I saw it. It was a shocking, dumbfounded and devastating kind of feeling in me.

Give me some time to accept, give me some time to adapt.

This is life.

The Many Things I Wanted to Do.

We always have the many things we wanna do, yet time forbids and restrains us from accomplishing every single tasks.

Time never fails to be merciless and say: "NO!"

Some things I wished I had more time for : 

1. I wished I had more time to accompany my family members. 
2. I wished I had more time to visit grandma. 
3. I wished I had more time to go visit ah gong monthly to ask if he is doing fine in another world and ask for his blessings for those who were left behind. 
4. I wished I had more time to spend with deardear, to go to the many places we haven't gone to, to let him know how much I really love him. 
5. I wished I could had more time so I could do some volunteer work at SPCA to give some love to the poor animals who were being abandoned by heartless and soul-less monsters. 
6. I wished I had more time so I could travel around the world and go to the many countries I aspired to go: Taiwan, Bangkok, Switzerland, Paris, France, Rome, Las Vegas, California, Bali etc. 
7. I wished I had more time to really think through my next phase of life, career and education. 
8. I wished I had more time to go to all the vintage places that I sincerely adored. 
9. I wished I had more time to meet up old friends for a catch up every now and then. 
10. And I wished I had more time so that I would slow down my pace for once and be myself...

The list may just go on and on and on without any halts or full-stops.
Good to show how nice it would be if a day consists of at least 72hours. 

Have never once stopped chasing or walking insanely big footsteps just to catch up with time.
But never once had time showed some sympathy, never once had it stop hastening, never once had it really bothered about the ones lagging behind it. 

So, face it and accept that this is reality. 

Went to work with a heavy mind, perhaps due to the accumulated intense tiredness that has yet to make itself scarce after the whole of the 6days workweek with the burning of brain cells even at the hour of 10pm. 

Still, even though I mentioned I slept most of my Sunday away, the best thing I did was to go Artbox to purchase those lovely letter pads to write for my three besties at work.

They were the people who give the strength to carry on, to do the possibles and the very much impossibles. They were the people who really understand the feelings within and they never fail to be so supportive. I really like every single one of them because they are really nice and they treat every single one with a sincere heart, contributing to the comfort of a workplace. 

"Thank You For Being An Awesome Part of My Life"

I ended the same for all three letters because they really meant someone awesome to me.

I'm sorry I don't sound right, I'm sorry I'm way too moody.
I wished I could be happier , I wished I could find more strength to pull myself through.
But it's getting abit too tiring, having to backpack such a heavy load and climb the full-high mountains.
If it snows, I'm afraid I might slip.
If it rains, I'm afraid I might get drenched and catch a cold.
And if natural disasters strike, I'm afraid I will face death in an unprepared manner. 

Promised to come back with a better endnote tomorrow.

对待人要用真实和诚恳的心，而不是用伪装或虚情假意来换别人的真心。 

Sunday-Feel.

Sunday is a day after Saturday where you had already blasted all your leisure time on.
Sunday is the reminder of a new day and;
Sunday is always a day you dread because the very next day will be Monday, which is a day you loathed.

Today marks a different feel for Sunday.
I used to visit grandma every Sunday last time but not now.
I used to be at dear's house for lunch & dinner every Sunday and be back home only when he got to book back to camp.
I used to accompany mummy who will be alone at home on a Sunday.
But today, I slept most of my Sunday away. 

Had my Pai Gu Noodles for lunch and went to tampines mall alone to collect my pinkie ring that I customized awhile back. Also, to trim my brows after so long. 

My Buy for Today <3! 

Hello Kitty Pouch

After which I got back home because mummy gotta head out to visit baby Mikaela and bro did not have the new house key as we just changed a new door gate. 

Chicken Congee

Carrot Cake & Spring Rolls

Zhu Chang Fen with prawns, Har Kau, Siew Mai,

Super sleepy today because of the accumulated drain-ness for the entire week. Stayed at office till 10pm at night everyday and even had to work on a Saturday. Dear had to leave for Thailand on Sat afternoon but I couldn't send him off. So we had an early breakfast at Yum Cha Chinatown because the boy was craving for dim sum. After which, he sent me to work. 

After work on Sat, the minority of us went to Kbox Cinneleisure for Kbuffet and singing session.
Sang all the way till 1am and reached home almost 2am to bathe and collapse for the day. 

It's 9.30pm and I have yet to eat my dinner.
Getting abit famished now, off to eat!

Drained.

Purely drained and tired.
Everything is giving way be it the mind, the soul or the body.
Need a good massage therapy after this week. The ache is tormenting me. 


Stay strong, very strong. 

Unspoken words.

有些时候有好多想说的， 但却说不出口。
偶尔有好多想说的，但却表达不出来。
俗语说的好， 有口难言。 


受过的委屈， 又有谁来为你心疼？
苦心干来的所为，又有谁能明白。 


看见简讯，听见铃声都像是恶梦走不出的影子。 


有好多好多的事没做， 有好多好多的话没说。 


我好累，好累。 
好怕自己撑不住了。 

The Commence of Horror.

Hola! It's the ever annoying Monday again.

Just another week from now will be the start of school, once again a new semester.

How I wished term break were longer but well, fat hopes indeed.

Living by everyday means a start of a new hope, a start of a new story, and the commencement of horror.

Time again and again I got to battle with the mind, the heart and the soul.

To stay as energetic as I can, to feel less lethargic as I could.

No one knows how long I can hang on, not even myself.

Saw my blog stats and it purged up by numerous figures this week. Thanks for all who take your precious time out to read about my little story.

Over the weekends, I got stuck onto the new game which I was indulged in!

TA DA! Sims 3~

The boy's bro and bro-in-law couldn't understand why I was playing such a game which to them was boring and purely idiotic. Well, it's just the same like how we girls cannot understand why guys like to watch the so many legs kick one ball as well as the fighting or shooting games they play isn't it? Hehe. It's just the way the different genders are born and we can't deny those differences. 

Just got home not long ago from dinner at Jumbo Seafood. Love the outdoor seating because it was so near the East Coast beach. 

I've always loved being near beach or going to the beach and just sit around even though I don't know how to swim at all. The feeling of being near water is scary indeed because one gulf of strong waves might just blend you in and you might just sway so faraway that no one else can ever find you again.

But since young, I have always walked the beach or go to the reservoir and sit on the rocks with my childhood friend, Cin. She would always accompany me there, hear my voices within, as I tell the faraway silently that I have something in me that I have swallowed for far too long and no one else could understand me. Till a year when the government decided to remove the big rocks near the waters of the reservoir, I stopped going there. It's peculiar how the waters can just take away your sorrows without asking you a single question or telling you any logics to move you back on path again. Somehow, after every trips to the quiet place, I always feel better.

And this is why I love it so much. 

"No one understands like how you do, no one listens like how you will and no one stays like you always had and always will..."

Feeble.

Was just talking about mum's case of gastroenteritis and the next victim became me instead.

Doctor diagnosed her of food poisoning but actually be it food poisoning or gastroenteritis, both symptoms are closely similar.

It was Valentine's Day and I felt sick and feeble.
Had diarrhea, though not constant, and went home after dinner date with darling, with a high fever.
Bathed myself and dropped dead on my bed for the whole night.

Woke up from sleep that day refusing to get off the bed to shut the alarm clock. Then zombied myself to the kitchen, tell mummy I wasn't feeling well and I need to see the doctor.

Had a day medical leave due to the high fever and rapid constant diarrhea that wouldn't stop churning my stomach like a washing machine. Man, it was pretty uncomfortable throughout. My condition worsened that night with vomiting in the midnight. Just imagine how well you will feel when you eat not even a fill and felt like going to the loo or felt like vomiting. It sucks having to eat so many different medicines especially when you are those types who cannot swallow pills. It sucks when you are sick and your tongue feels blend and numb. Thanks to this, plain porridge and mee tai mak became my best friends for the three days.

Thank God I'm fully recovered now and my first craving was hotdogs and deardear made me my first craving after I recovered. :) Thank you pig!

Monday Blues.

Oh man, serious Mondays Blues today after being absent from work for three days.

Tolerance level ought to be increased to cater to the junks that need a fullload of brain cells. 

Came home after work and mummy was complaining that she feels awful in the stomach.

Not long after, she started vomiting and had diarrhea. I guess it must be the horrible Gastroenteritis which I used to have it on a regular basis when I was younger. Doctor denounced simpler terms as gastric flu.
Poor mummy. Vomited umpteen times. I made white sugar water for her but so far seemed to not have any progress. Hope she will feel better very soon. 

Googled a few websites and managed to find ways to stop vomiting:

• Having small sips of clear liquids, preferably sweetened liquids, is one of the best ways to stop Vomiting. Rice water is highly beneficial in this regard. However, you need to avoid carbonated drinks and extremely sour fluids as they tend to irritate the stomach.

• Slowly sipping a mixture of one teaspoon mint juice, one teaspoon lemon juice, half a teaspoon of ginger juice and one teaspoon of honey. Ginger and honey, in particular help a great deal in getting rid of this problem.

• Onion juice is also considered beneficial in controlling this problem. Therefore, take one teaspoon of fresh onion juice at regular intervals to stop vomiting. It can also be taken along with honey.

• Chewing a piece of raw ginger or having ginger tea serves as a good means to avoid Vomiting by settling the stomach. Wondering how does ginger stop vomiting? Well, ginger acts as a natural antiemetic and hence helps in reducing Nausea and Vomiting to a great extent.

• Take two roasted cardamoms and crush them to form a powder. Mix one teaspoon of honey in this powder and take this mixture from time to time to cure Vomiting effectively.

• If you are looking for measures as to how to stop vomiting due to Jaundice then it would be better to avoid eating foods that are difficult for the  process and stick to boiled vegetables and juices.

• In case you want to know how to stop vomit with the liver toe help of any particular medicine then you can take any Prochlorperazine like Stematil, Compazine, Phenotil, Stemzine or Buccastem. If you are interested in a more natural treatment then you can also go for ginger tablets that can be found easily in any health food store.

I always love to google about this and that and learn more. 

Just like the other time when deardear had shingles, it was me who googled and discovered that it was shingles-suspected. hehe. Maybe it's really good to be inquisitive at times! 

Tomorrow or should I say, just in two hours times, it will be Valentines' Day.
So Happy Valentines' Day to all couples and best friends!
Hope all will have a meaningful and enjoyable date! 

Vintage

Vintage had always been my favourite be it dressing, accessories or themes of a place.

Some vintage collections that captivated my eyes!

Anyway, I found my fav vintage shop at Bugis!

The collections they have there can make me spend half of the day just choosing what I want and I really fancy that shop alot! 

After 3days of break from work due to exams, I ought to tune myself back for the work battle again cus it's Monday tomorrow! 

Goodnight folks! 

Everything Under The Sun

Say Hip Hip Hooray because exams are over!! 

Well, I sincerely hope that the Aussie unit controller will be merciful enough to award me the marks I need in order to pass that sickening subject. Please help to pray for me. 

After my last paper yesterday, I had an enjoyable meet-up with my university school mates, Wira & Sofia. Nai Ying still had ongoing exam paper the very next day and so it was a pity she couldn't join us.  

We met up at 313 Somerset and had a filling meal at Kenny Rogers. 

After our dinner, we made our way up to Starbucks for a good catch-up session. 

Let the peektures do the talking for the next moment. 

My University School Mates 

Hello Sofia Sayang! 

Whats that face for huh, Wira? 

Sayang little Sofia

My bestest school mates

Wira, Sofia and Nai Ying are a bunch of interesting and jumpy school mates I met at Curtin Singapore. They were my group members for one of my module - Communication in Business 100. They were the first few people I met when I was new to the school and I must say we were the best groupmates ever. They were responsible, hardworking, productive and we made it a point to meet every sundays for our project assignment. Because of our matching characters, each and every one of us really place all our commitments for the project which was really a very rare phenomenon in university especially.

Sofia and Nai Ying always have fun watching show created by me and Wira because the two of us always tend to quarrel whenever we talk. In other words, we cannot talk properly with each other. Haha! Thats why I termed our friendship as "Eight Characters Clash." But that was part and parcel of an interesting bunch.

We talked everything under the sun at Starbucks and ended up leaving the place only at 11pm.

We were talking about the first impression of each other and as usual, they mentioned that I was unfriendly and unapproachable to them at first sight. Lol, this was a common comment by people before they knew me because I have a very defensive kind of character and dislikes to smile. However, when friends know me well thereafter, they will always tell me, actually I am not what they think I looked like.

Throughout the years, I still have not changed.

Still as defensive, still as sensitive towards strangers.

Well, anyway it takes affinity for friends to know each other and get along well.

So I'm sincerely glad I have my newfound adventurers Uni mates to brighten up my school life.

Demoralised Much.

Here I am, with limited strength to move on for the next exam paper.

Very demoralized because those countries that I was confident about, didn't appear in the exam paper.
So all I did was blah my way through.

Slept at late hours every night and wake up at 7plus in the morning just to mug with a dizzy me, tired look.

Uni life is draining me far too much. I have enough of the juggling stress.

I wish I can pass the module because I don't want to take the annoying, incorrigible Industrial Relations module again. 
IT IS KILLING ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I need to sleep.
Those nightmares every night are murdering me gradually.
The head is spinning, exploding and bursting.
OH HELP!

Jar of Hearts

Christina Perri - Jar of Hearts Official Video

I love this song. I love the lyrics. I love the meanings behind those words. 


Some people you met along the way greeted you and you both became more than just a stranger, perhaps a good friend, perhaps a hi-bye someone, perhaps a buddy / pal or perhaps a lover.

And some people left, with just mere words, leaving scars that lived for far more than ages.

Some wounds may be temporary in nature, while some just stay as an open wound with no cure of medication. Some took a longer time to be disinfected, to transform into a clean, dry wound.

Eventually, scars become visible. Some stay only for a period of time and disappear, while some scars that are so vivid stay right at the same spot and the pain suffered remained rooted to your heart, and tormented your entire life.

Evidences of such pain reveal themselves when you suddenly chanced upon the culprits, or when you start daydreaming, or when flashes of thoughts come attacking your mind when you are in an enclosed room alone, or simply when you are asleep, having nightmares with them in the series of events. 


Not lamenting doesn't mean you no longer remember.
Not disclosing to others doesn't mean you no longer feel hurt.
Because it has become an in-built kinda feeling that only you will understand, that only you are able to control, able to confront it.

So who do they think they are, running round leaving scars?
Coming as and when they like, leaving as and when they want.
And if you all left in the first place, why do you all just keep coming back to haunt me?
Here i have, no more belongings that are of yours, but why do you all came back to seem to find something that you all have lost.
I don't have it with me, so stop coming back as and when you wished.

I may feel indignant, but I diffuse those anger.
Because for all those who left, it was your loss, not mine.
And all those who stayed, thank you for completing my life, giving me the strength to carry on, numbing all the pains from the scars. 


I wish for a good sleep with no more jigsaws of dreams that have them in it.
I just need a good, undisturbed sleep.
I don't wish to cry in sleep or wake up the next day, tearing.
Nightmares please, make yourself scarce I plead.

Wholly-Owned Responsibilities

Tonight is the battle with the mind to mug late.

Had caffeine overdose for the day just to keep myself awake for the night.
I know this is a bad way to stay awake but I have limited time left for the mugging and there are no other choices to resort to.

Chanced upon these when I browsed the web and I thought it was quite true:

Oh no, i'm supposed to encourage myself to mug, but i'm doing otherwise.

Okay, pray that I will have a productive mugging night tonight!

An Ideal Home.

My perception of an ideal home is one that embeds the following characteristics: 

1. Presence of warmth made up by the family members 
2. Comfortable 
3. Uniquely designed 

If I ever have the extra cash in future, I would rather invest in a well-designed apartment. Having a comfortable and well-designed apartment of your liking, you will feel comfortable and soothed after a long day at work. You will want to stay at home and spend more time with your family members.

Below depicted pictures I have chanced upon and which I thought were really what makes up an ideal home. 

Bathroom

Living room

Living room

Balcony

Glass Staircase

Bedroom

Bedroom

Talking about an ideal home, deardear has been wanting to revamp his room and he once consulted me on the designs applicable. When we are free, we are gonna hit Ikea for some inspirations and we are so gonna change the outlook of his room to a more comfy one.                                                                                                  

Happy 42 Monthsary!!!

Yesterday marked our Happy 42 Months Anniversary (3years 6 months).

Times flies and in a wink, we have already gone through the many thick and thins for so many years and counting on.

Infact, I am thankful for the boy because he has always been giving in alot to me. My temper has always been atrocious. I guess people who really know me well understands that I'm the sort of girl who is very nice when people treats her nice and the last thing you would want her to do is to flare up. Things always turned out very nasty when I flared up. I know my temper can be uncontrollable at times but this boy here never fails to tolerate and understand that sometimes, it's either the in-built vexations, or the mood swings that may caused the flare. If he was someone with a bad temper like me, I don't think we can work out right from the start.

He was someone I thought I wouldn't end up with because at the point when I met him, he was just a complete stranger. I remember telling my closed friends and my bestie cousin that I spotted a handsome and cute guy in my lecture group. Yet, at that juncture, I know I pinned no hopes, not on him, not on us, but no hopes on love. Having consecutively hurt throughout the hilarious journey of what everyone called love, I told myself, I will never want to trust love anymore.

Till he came along, and the many unexpected chances that binded us together such as lectures, school activities, friends gathering etc. He changed my mindset and I decided to believe just once more in love again. Thus, our story began and i'm so glad that till today, our love is still as strong and we are still as loving.

Though there may be obstacles surfacing around every now and then, we know that with each other around, we can get through anything hand in hand.

So thank you deardear for being such an angelic pie, always there showing me the many dotes, love and care.
Small Piggy Loves her Big Piggy ((: 

<3

"Love is when I met you and decided that you can be the one to heal my wound, to take away my tears and plant the smile on me when we are together."