Its a whole new life... (or maybe two...)

have been 'inspired' by a pregnancy homepage that its time to start documenting life with my new little one, since we will forget everything.. the ups and downs (mostly the latter for now) the moment the precious arrives... so here goes... the 'exciting' moment was revealed some three weeks ago, after my last sashimi dinner (call it denial), oh, my calendar says its the 25 mar, on a preg stick. the second line was so faint, my dear FM decided that it may not be reliable. (the woman noes better, since her body has been acting weird). nvm. the following day, we tried on another brand's kit when FM came back for lunch during his reservist. this time round, its a clear second line, and FM has finally decided to be happy! its been quite a tough journey since then. the ups: people who know (esp our parents) are super duper happy! another up is the excitement of knowing how this precious one is gonna journey with my Abba, just as I had... and hopefully and prayerfully even closer, makes me excited... the downs: indigestion, constant fatigue, inability to down food (and i LOVE food!!)...man... its really tough. i can accept spending time with family, making the home, baking for loved ones, etc. rather than earning $$$ as 'productive'... but its hard for me to accept the concept of making a placenta, forming cells, etc. 'productive'.... everyone says it'll get better in a couple of weeks time... i can only wait and count down..... here's a snapshot of the little one (just the size of a blueberry) 2 weeks ago at 7 weeks.. looking forward to see more in the upcoming weeks... that's it for now.. my pregnant brains don't write smart or farnie posts... well.. i'm just documenting ! ha ha...

progress...

1 march - officially the owners of flat
6 march - given a set of keys
13 march - officially collected keys
14 march - 2nd outdoor shoot @ sentosa.. finally no rain!! thank GOd!!
17 march - went to one contractor for quotation
18 march - we bought our sealy king size mattress and a quilt and two sets of bed covers TODAY! went to two contractors for quotation. farmer says the second one doesn't count cos he wasn't professional about it at all....

Entry 2: the photoshoot

we had a photoshoot yesterday too. so it was a really tiring but eventful day.

after meeting LL for breakfast at singpost yest, she dropped me off at elvis' to get my stuff. den elvis n i headed for ana's shop for the makeup and all. elvis got really nice dark pink and white roses to be used for the photoshoot. while i got the princess treatment in being dolled up, the two of them were working out buoquets of flowers ana says neva to let J see, or he will murder her! ha ha... it was really farnie to see elvis working on the flowers. and its really so sweet to hv flowers done up by pple close to me... they are not the 'florist-pretty' sort, but they ARE pretty.. and i dunno.. its just so sweet and nice... i loved them!

den V (our ex-colleague), our photographer turned up with 2 of my ex-students. ha ha.. i taught them music 2 yrs ago when they were in sec 1. all the sch song and theme songs.. ha ha... we took pics at blujaz and arab street, and when i was doing the touchup after the first set,it started POURING! if peeps use the term raining cats and dogs, i'd say, it rained cows and mutton.. oops.. i meant sheep... like almost all over singapore yest. ha ha... we were planning to take pics at punggol ... where the 'grassland' is (i hv no idea wat, it was V's idea.). but.. it was virtually impossible. i rem in the car ride there, i only asked God... for His best.. cos He loves us mah... so we went to punggol marina first just to wait out the rain. along the way, elvis thot of going to the airport instead. so at punggol marina, we met up w V again, and decided to go to T3 (and managed to leave the carpark within the 15 mins grace period. heh). its 'exciting' cos i've neva been to T3 before even tho i've thot of going a couple of times.

T3 turned out to be a really nice place to do the photoshoot cos
1. its dry (the outdoor rain can be quite depressing!)
2. its NOT CROWDED!!
3. its got nice places to take pics.
We had popeyes at T3 den proceeded to Orchard road for the last set. By then, elvis n i were 'dying'.. but V was still roaring to go... ha ha...

Orchard Road was pretty fun with the christmas decos. THe most fun part was when V was trying to use some trick to capture us over 2 - 10 seconds of exposure, us as the subjects, and the moving peeps ard as a 'blurry' set of images in the backgrd. but we had to hold real still thro those 2 - 10 seconds, and given our tall and lanky frames, it wasn't easy. Our CG was too high so we were swaying abt. ha ha ha... anywayz, we decided to do it across the road.. or the MIDDLE of the road linking from Scotts to Wheelock Place... the traffic lights for the pedestrains stay green for over a minute we figured!! so we can even try for 3 to 4 shoots (with the posture freeze for 2s for each shot). People were looking. There were even people who follow suit. ha ha... but it was fun!! sometimes u see 'ghostly' features in these shots. ha ha...

by the time we ended, it was over 10pm. i went to elvis place to just washup first before heading home. he was so tired... he cldn't even talk to me :'(

cant wait to see the pics! :D

Entry 1: my upcoming new home!!

yesterday morn, elvis called me at abt 8.30am.
E: guess wat?
me: wat?
E: we got the place!

WE GOT THE PLACE!! albeit on the costlier side. but we got the place! its pretty farnie how we chose this place.

Its a 13th storey, 5I flat, with 'unblocked' view, N-S facing. In fact, it was the FIRST flat we viewed. That time, we weren't impressed with the 'unblocked' view. I din like a column in the living room. That column actually made me consider to get an EM rather than a 5-room flat in the neighborhood.

So just last weekend, we went to view two flats again. Since I super bad with numbers, I actually did not rem the block nos. of the flats we viewed (not even a previous one we made an offer for!). So when we went to the 13th storey, I stepped into the recess area and was like.. hey.. very familiar... just like the first one we saw (more than a month ago) i stepped into the flat and thot wow... the layout is so similar... let's see that difference this place has ... until i turned to a wall beside the dining table and saw a photo portrait of an elderly indian lady. i was 'stunned' for a moment... HEY.. we've been here before!! the first place!

see, the first time we viewed it, it was handled by an agent. we only viewed the place to see the layout of 5I flats. We weren't even interested in it in the first place because of the asking price. that day, the owner was selling it without an agent. in other words, we dealt with 2 persons, hence we did not noe it was the same unit.

i was even more alert than elvis. he did not even noe it was that unit! ha ha.. when he asked me to take a look at the kitchen, and asked me whether it was big enough for me, i thot he was just kidding and pretending! ha ha...

anywayz, the second time round, we really liked the place. i guess after 'shopping' ard looking at the other flats, we learnt to see more out of this. sometimes its farnie how God brings us round so that we can appreciate things better. in fact, i thot, wah, if we ever got this unit, it will be God lor.. and it IS GOD!! ha ha.. so am praying that this will be our love nest with God... and praying that we will be able to bless others with this space in the future. :) i wanna throw parties!!! ha ha...

wedding updates....

peeps hv been asking how the wedding preps are coming along... honestly, we hvn't done much. ha ha. save for choosing the date, booking of church as well as the hotel.

tmrw and thurs, we will be doing 'casual' outdoor foto shoot. no gown. ha ha. because farmer's not supposed to be able to see my gown til the day itself! last sat night, we went scouting orchard rd and today arab street for potential sights for shooting. tmrw will be doing arab street, punggol followed by orchard. thurs will be sentosa. ana made me try on some pieces of her collection. among the 3 pieces, there was one really cute one, that was so suitable for the thurs shoot at sentosa. i kept bugging her to lend me, and eventually sell me, until she gave up and said it was supposed to be my bday surprise! oh me and my big mouth!!

last thurs we've made the order for our wedding bands.. after scouting for abt a month or so. they weren't the most 'value for money'.. but we really liked them... so.. ha ha...

we've just made an offer for a place we looked at on sat pm. its pretty interesting how we came to this place. i'll post more abt it, IF we get this place. paying a lot for it.. but we really liked the place.. so... we'll see...

i tink tt's abt the updates on the wedding i hv so far. why am i picking up on my blog again? i figure this is a way for me to rem my wedding preps. but i dun tink the way i'm blogging it is too intereting.. ha ha... but aiya.. can rem good oredi lah. :P

when you are attached...

sometimes saying no to something u'll used to jump at is what you have to do...

i just got an interesting lobang from AG on msn. $100 for dressing up nice and ushering awardees up and down the stage for a corporate function held in a posh hotel.

Reasons y i can and shld take tis up:
1. i'm an experience junkie (this itself is the most valid and fundamental reason).
2. i own a nice long black dress that 'under-worn'. and black dress is the dress code.
3. i happen to 'fit the bill'. i tink they wan tall peeps.
4. i dun hv anything concrete planned (with the exception of hanging out with FM. this itself is the one of the two most important reasons i had to say no.)

i called FM to hear his comments. he sounded hesitant. he thot the money was too little for the hours clocked in. (for me its the experience). it sounds bimbotic to him. (it is, den again, i'm an experience junkie). but he's a sweetie. when i kindof sound like i really wanna do it, he said i could.

tis is when the application of 'when you are attached ...sometimes saying no to something u'll used to jump at is what you have to do...' takes place. its not easy. but life's like that. u get involved with someone, u no longer live for urself. there are sacrifices that need to be made. this is not huge. but tis is not wat i'd NORMALLY hv done. in any case, i do want to spend the time with him, esp after a long week.

life has changed....

touched.....

today is the post-XT's bday day.... altho in FM's calendar, it is a week-long festival of celebration of the princess' bday. ha ha.

anywayz, this festival came abt bcos i was a little down yest, even tho it was my bday. it was nice. mom cooked mee sua for me. so i had a simple lunch w mom, dad and FM. FM cooked me dun tang! ha ha. it was nice.



but cos both of us kena cold, so we din go out for dinner. plus worship prac was rough and ended REALLY late, and pple in prac din even wish me bday (its no big deal, but i cant help feeling disappointed.) all added up.. made me feel really really blue.... so FM came up with the week long festival thing... ha ha...

anywayz, i was really really touched by FM's sweetness today... i was practising piano and abt to go wash up and go for tuition. halfway thro a piece my mobile rang. i ignored it. after the piece, i saw the missed call from FM. called him back.. and he told me... look out .. and i saw the silhueote of a long limb waving upwards with a bouqeut. i was like HUH?!?!

thanks baby... i'm really really touched by this really really sweet gesture.... anywayz, here's the pic of the frowers that made my day... more like... the sweet act that made my day (even tho i hv to carry that.. uh-hmm for a couple of years.. haiz... ha ha)




oh... den today i had dinner with haz... after a long long time... so... its really nice.. the post-xt's bday-day...