When it started?
Date: 2 April 2008 ~ Venue: Marriot Hotel ~ Time: 430pm

Yes! It all started 2 months ago with the idea in my mind and as I was having my cake with Jing at Marriot, I told her my plan.

She got so super excited and start throwing me A LOT of ideas and discuss with me how to start it.

First thing - Venue. I was thinking of getting a hotel room and to get Mel's friends to surprise him.

Then, I started to MSN with Joey about it.

Her immediate reply: OF COURSE!

Yup, that is the reply of all best friends ya?!

And she started to help ask Tian Tian for hotel room rates and such. For me, I've been checking out Credit Cards promo (Bee, now you know why I keep asking for the brochures) and sadly, I can't get any good deal.

As the hotel rates are way above my budget and I feel that it's not worth it, I SMS Gerard and asked if he got any idea for me.

Of course, he's ON for it too! And suggested the condo.

Haaa! FOC venue! I just need to buy food and deco the place up so we settled for that!

2 weeks later, as I suddenly thought of the Red Cellar and called Jing to talk about it at one late night. She agreed on it and we were talking about "how come we didn't think of it earlier?!"

So SETTLED!

It was a lot of coordination to do. Super thanks to Joey for SMS-ing and calling up everyone to get them informed and get their attendance. The numbers were up and down, making both of us so nervous. It was 3 persons then 1, then 3 then 2, then 1 again.... *sweat*

Of course, I booked my sister to join in. Not forgetting my darlings Ah Girl and Babe.

There were a lot of changes to the timing too. It was at 630pm then to 7pm then to 730pm. As Joey tell me she can make it only after she closed her shop or if no customers, she'll close her shop - JUST FOR MEL! But then, Xueli got to go her niece's birthday dinner, Sunyao don't know what time can make it...

Then Gerard called me and say if there's no dinner, its better to start the party after that.

Wifey works till 9pm that night too...

So it was then changed to 930pm!

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The cake - I got LOST while finding the cake shop to get his favourite design. I changed 3 buses to get to the right stop and found the shop. That was after a morning work at office and my afternoon class.... =_="

So that actual day -

Ah Gal came over my place and we chat. The BD-BOY came at around 5pm and everything is as normal. I was busy preparing the student kits and he started setting up the DVD recorder in my living room.

Jing called me at 615pm to tell me how I want the arrangement to be at night. I did the phonecall in my room. Haaa!!

We dragged till 7pm and went off for dinner.

The BD-BOY started getting SO CHATTY for the whole evening. During the car ride, during dinner, during shopping at Raffles City.

As it's 925pm, we make our way to the planned-venue. This hyper-BD-BOY just keep his chatty chatty chat by telling me how beautiful the building is with the lights, and pointed to me the furnitures in a shop to tell me how nice they are etc etc etc!!

Wifey was calling me to tell me that the candles are burning away and if they should blow it off. By then, they blew if off for the THIRD TIME!

So, finally when we reached the venue; Joey, Sunyao, Kailun were standing outside and the BD-BOY got a big shocked that why so coincidence that they're chilling at the same place. At the same time, he got angry with them for not calling him out when there's a gathering!

As he opened the door of Red Cellar, he saw Gerard and cannot believe his eyes. He pulled me and tell me "Eeeh... You see... Gerard is here leh!"

Yaaa.... It took him like another 60 seconds to understand that it's a plot...

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It's only when Xav pulled him in and sang a quick "Happy Birthday to YOu....! Quick! Make a wish and blow the candles!"

And then, he was like a STAR for the night where so many flashes flash on him. (I was behind the scene and will update again when I got the pics...)

This is the cake!

And of course, I have never see such expression from him before.

Shocked ! Delighted ! More than Happy ! Blurred ! Unbelievable ! Surprised ! Loved !

Definitely, he was loved by all of his friends!

We love our friends! Its the night where HIS BESTIES MET MY BESTIES! I truly love the evening! Every single moment!

And more....

And of course - my darling girlfriends... who are ALWAYS there for me! I love them! And Jing, the one who help in planning and collect my delivered cake. Thanks sweetie for making us comfortable in the evening!

My camera - surviving its last few breathes for the mulitshots... A BIG THANK YOU to everyone who came to spend the night with Mel. It's because of all of you who make it a successful surprise celebration~!

Labels: My Friends Faculty, My Valentine Paradise

At Park Royal - I can say the buffet is awesome!

And it's sinful too~!

For the first hour, we were all busy eating...

Thenafter?

Camwhoring time!

The 3 of us trying to take a picture. And once when Joyer saw us flashing out our camera, she just hop onto my cousin Amy... =_="


Here, my pretty cousin, HY. She'd grown to such a beautiful young lady now. Heart her!


Ya, we just can't get rid of her... She is a SUPER CAMWHORE than anyone of us ok! Even much more than ME!

She likes to be a Koala bear...

See how she likes to stick to whoever whenever the camera was pointed at...

Picture with my dearest ever Granny!

And my gugu (Aunty Irene) even called up Mel to 'remind' him to come for the dinner! So 大牌 lor. This vainpot just dye his hair, make him look so much younger again! Arggh!

It wasn't done on purpose but I somehow like this pic... I like all these pics because my chin is so sharp now! Know why? I LOST 3kgs over these period of chaotic mess. I now offically weigh 39kg only!

Then we carry on our multishots...

Joyer tries to take her 2 vain aunties's pic... heh! Her gu-ma (Amy) must have been teaching her to pose and pose and to snap and snap all these while to train her as a offically camwhore lor!

And of course, I will take some pics with her...

Not forgetting our family shot! Everyone is so looking forward to my multishots! Even my aunt and uncle loves it! But they were so disappointed when we couldn't do for even more than 3 snaps. Cos it's time my camera takes its rest. I presume it had too much of hardwork with all these times of multishots that it finally cannot take it. It's time to change a new one!

Will update again when I get more pics from my cousin.

What do you do in office?

Do you really work?

For us - we camwhore! They're indeed the ones I spent more time with than my family and my love.

Okay, back to work! (like real!)

Started another new class.

They're really young. So young that they don't really understand my instructions which I have to repeat over and over again. Nevertheless, they're still cute right...

I've 9 students in this class. These 4 are the ones who stayed behind to wait for their mummy.


I can say little Nicole is really very photogenic!

We're using the Art Classroom so there's drawing all over and even drawings on the chairs!

I've to change the chairs to as little crayon marks as I can or not the kids will be upset.

After class, my baby came and pick me. Took my cardigan and act like those women who drive! Aaaah!

Labels: My Kids Park

I wanted to buy something for my student's parents as to show appreciation for using their house. After my halfday in the office, I was early before class, I went to shop around for abit and settled for candies...

As I passed to the mother, she refused to accept it and ask me to take back. As women, we push here and there awhile then I left it in her kitchen. Haha!!

And she keep giving me drinks after drinks during the lesson.

After classes, she took out her HUGE organiser to make arrangement with me for their classes. The whole page is filled with red-black-blue ink all over and full of schedule.



"Let's see Wednesday - Elder son got cca-Band from 830am-12pm, so we have to make it at 2pm? Oh no no, daughter got Chinese lesson at 330-5pm.



Okay, how about Thursday - Younger son has piano class at 10am-12pm, daughter has Writing Skills lesson 3-430pm.



Friday - Elder son got to go back to school for meeting and younger son having his cca 130pm-3pm. Okay, we put the lesson with you on 4pm is it ok?"



"Okay... they've really tight schedule!"



"Yes, it's very packed for them from the 2nd week of June, so we shall try to do 3 lessons for this week. Tues, Fri and Sat."



"Okay..."



I'm totally speechless.

Then I realised that it's not easy being a MOTHER! You have to manage all the kids schedule, remember their classes and send the younger one to school. And she was so busy to pay me lesson fees for me and...

"Girl, wait for mummy. I have to write a cheque to your chinese teacher. We've to pay her today."

OMG! And MOTHER has to remember/record when is the date to pay lesson fees.

I LOVE HER JOB! I officially declared that I want the JOB of being a MOTHER!

Don't think it's easy ok. It's as stressful too! Know what? This mum of 4 children even need a maid to help her! So being a full-time mother - doesn't even have the time to do house chores!

This is the crazy school holiday period for me! As I was forced to clear leave, I took all the half-days off so that I could go and teach my class. So it was total madness that I've to wake up at 7 and rushed to office by 845am so I could get off on time for my class.

I can feel the heat in me when I commit myself to Mon, Wed and Fri classes - which means in the morning I'll clear my work and then rush off to teach in the noon. Night? - Prepare the students kit! OMG!

A bonus this week is that I gotta teach new class at Thursday morning 9am! Freaking EARLY! I've to wake up even much earlier than go to office as the venue is at Balestier!

Next week onwards, I will be teaching another batch of class on Friday evenings. Nvm, anyway, I'd already forgo my happy Friday nights for 3 mths due to my Saturday morning lessons.

I would probably be so dead by end of June where you won't get to hear from me in the whole of July.

It's crazy when I'm clearing leave, I've to rush through the preparation next Wednesday morning seminar for the whole of this week. I'm so mad!

All of the sudden, I feel so alone out there. I was so busy rushing stuffs at work that I don't even any minute to talk to the girls. I was so caught in the rush to my class that I don't even get to have a proper lunch. I was rushing non-stop at night with the students kit that I don't have any spare seconds to talk to my baby.

When suddenly all these stop, it's the time when I fell asleep immediately.

That quiet moment belongs to me when I walked the park connector after my class in the drizzles... The rain soaked my shoes and washed my thoughts away. I feel so lonely.

I walked this connector by myself, trying to sort out my thoughts. Why am I so busy for? Why do I get myself so drained up? It's me under my orange brolly...

This morning, as I was on the bus, I saw this old couple holding their hands together so tightly!

I just wish that all of the sudden, I can stop whatever I'm doing and love myself more instead of overworking my mind and body.

Will my one still protect me, hold me, love me, shelter me and hold me when my skin wrinkled and droopy?

Labels: My Moods Mansion

I know it's a long and difficult time you've been going through and I'm glad I'm always out there to listen to you, to share your woes, to hug you when you tears.

For the annual report - Staff Photo Taking!

And I'm not even in their department. They are my co-colleague. Or not even colleague. OKay, whatever... I don't know what's our relationship but I just know that I love them!

Then, we had some quick snaps among ourselves. And we had discussed to dress up and arrange another day with my power multi-10 shots shoot sometime soon!

The beautiesssss! They're my darlings at work!

I woke up at 6am so to get myself prepared for the event. As I'm not taking any heavy stuffs, I took a train down to the hotel instead of cab.

End up, I was about 30mins early at the event!

So I took a few snaps in the washroom. Heh!
Due to modelling, I'm so used to taking shoes around to change and back to slippers after the event. This habit of mine was brought to even at work.

Why?

Stupid shoes like this hurts alot leh! I wore it for only that 3hours of the event and I felt like I'm having blisters! Lucky I got my slipper with me.


The Preparation...
The event was quite a success...
Again, I missed Cher and Jon when I used to do these events with them. I was so well taken care off and so appreciated for every single detail. And it's really 'work-life' when after event, I was 'force' to go home and rest as we were so exhaused after weeks of stressful preparation.

But this time round, I was released only at 5pm.

I tried to be cheery mood today which then I found out that I failed miserablely.

The more I tried, the worse I felt.

Managed to take only a pic with my lovely Mel. Love the way she cared for me and when she holds and hugs me! And she never failed to share anything with me.

It was crazy at work as we are having an event on this Friday. I've never feel this way before. It was all so uptight and my boss just got so paranoid which totally freaks me out.

No matter what, the show has to go on.

I understand - we can't fail this event.

During lunch, I made Alicia tears. And then, I teared. Alice's eyes were watery too. Josh, sorry for meeting me on Sat with a heavy heart...

I'm so sorry, ladies!

After work, I really need to destress. I've been spending my long weekend (Sun & Mon) at home doing nothing but to give myself a break. So we decided to meet this evening. It felt like something off my heart when I'm offically off work. Ok, now, I'm not going to be so engaged with my work anymore. I'm NOT going to log in at night and during the weekend ever again!

So, to pleased me, I get to order all the sweet stuffs for dinner. The pizza, the sundae, the cake...

It just cheer me up.
Sometimes, I don't know what I want.

I need someone to be with me.

I'm fragile.

I need to be protected.

I want to cry.

Sometimes, his smile just melt my heart and seems to blow my worries away.

I will be so dead without you.

Labels: My Valentine Paradise

It's time to celebrate our special day!

So, my boy brought me to the Disney and try the food!

Ahemm... Not disneyland though...

It was soo sooo soooo packed!

It's a Saturday though... But I think they're screening Ratatouille!

So end up, our names are in the waiting list. And gosh... It's like gonna be more than an hour wait. So we head towards Holland Village...

We had mexican food for a change...

I'm happy anywhere with food!

Then... My boy brought me to this spectacular place! -- Alexandra Arch!


At the Alexandra Arch...
Then the Forest Walk - I LOVE IT!

Okay... Everytime while we passed by these 2 bridges, my boy has been waiting for the day it's ready for us to go. We had seen it building and building that we waited for a long while before we get on it - FINALLY!

Gosh! I feel like fainting when we finally reach the Henderson Waves. But it's all worth it!!

See the big wave behind me? I want to lie down and enjoy the air, the view and the stars - the next time I go... Heh!


Anyway, we had a great evening. Although going up the hill really seems like killing me but it's such a great sight not to be missed.


Honey, I still want to catch back that moment which we missed on the high sea. It's not complete at all! I demand back the 4 hours which you still owe me!

Yeah!

I will have all the time by myself tonight-tmr so I will do all the updatessss!

Happiness, sadness, painfulness, confusion, mental stress, tiredness...

Feeling there's holes in my body... and more...

Till then!

Muackz!

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This marks an important date in my calender.

The day I went through a mixed feeling of nervousness and scariness.

I extracted my wisdom tooth!

It was such a shitty process that I keep trying to ask out loud to the dentist:

"Are yu done? Are you done? Are you done?"

I had 4 jabs to my tooth of which, the last 2 was the worst. And I started to ask alot of questions which I think I might have made the dentist hate me.

"You injected me so many times, was it meant to soften the tooth for easy removal?"

"You extract my tooth and there'll be a space in the row of my teeth, so will the rest of my teeth actually moved to filled up the space?"

"How long will I take to recover?"

"Can you knock me unconscious?"

Then he passed me painkiller.

"I don't know how to swallow pills"

He: "Then how do you normally take pills?"

"Why don't you open up the capsule for me?"

"Or give me something that I can bite" (while half of my face already numbed)

Okay, then I witness all the whatever heavy and big equipments he was trying to use on me. Ok, not trying - but he used it to shake and shake and shake my tooth.

The rest of the story, I don't think you guys want to know.

Whatever...

Then, again, he showed me my x-ray and tell me again that I need to operate on my lower 2 wisdom tooth soon and he does not wish to extract its neighbour which my wisdom tooth will caused it to decay.

@$%^&*

See this picture - I have a sleeping queen in there. Actually TWO. Each take up my left and my right side. And I still got a third one to remove, which is my upper left corner.

I hate it!

Okay, I really don't understand. Why made us grow these wisdom tooth painfully and then have to extract them miserablely?! Should just give it to the guys as the girls have too many pain to go through!

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14th May 2008

And now, why do I say I'm having all the time by myself? Its because after this terrible removal programme, I was awarded with 2 days Medical Leave.

It was my first MC throughout these 11mths at work. And to think that it wasn't exact 2 days becuase I was deployed back to work on the morning before my extraction! I slept at 230am and woke up at 6 to get ready for the ever smallest mini session I've ever done. And I travel down for the easy 30mins registration and took a train back to remove my makeup and all to get ready to go and "collect my MC". I thought I will be having fever then due to not enough sleep.

But anyway, I'm strong enough. And so today - I have all the time by myself. I don't belong to my boss today. I don't belong to the office. I don't belong to the phonecalls and all. My 8 hours of precious (soon-to-be-over youth) don't belong to the company today!

I'm so happy!

I rather do nothing and be happy than to do something that I do not like. -- from What Happens in Vegas

A big hugs to all of you out there, who have been trying to comfort me throughout my wait.

Junxiang shared with me the process is worst than being raped by gays.

Jason suggested me to just extract all 4 or 2 at least at a time so I don't need to go through the ordeal again. He told me to trust him that I wouldn't want to go through the healing process 4 times!

Only Ms Joey is the best. She keep telling me it's nothing one, not painful one.

But this whole extraction of 4 together would cost me my one month paycheck too! Faint!

The worst that I got was from Yan when she shared with me that her sis who had the operation, actually got her tongue permanently numb due to the extraction. Now, she gotta go for another operation to take out her nerves from her leg to replace back for her tongue!

It all freak me out!

And also to my colleagues and my boss who has been so supportive to make me feel alright to go ahead with fixing my problems.

Of course, my girls who are always there for me.

And my bunny who was with me physically to make sure I change my cotton and gave me the strength to do it. Although he made a lot of jokes about it... I hate it but I love you! ^_^

And of course my darling daddy! He spent hours to cook the baby porridge for me while I was napping. It took him alot of effort to cut all the meat and crabsticks to pieces for me to easy swallow. He's the best dad on earth!

My nightmare isn't the end, I still got the other 3 to settle. I don't know what I should do.

With a heavy heart, I went to the office today with a smile.

The thoughts of going away for 2 days of MC just make me feel so good.

But I was wrong when I went lunch with Alicia and Josh.

Under the brolly, Alicia asked me:"Hey dear, did you lose weight? You look so skinny now!"

Still jokingly... "Oooooh... Ya must be, cos now I got so afraid to chew my food properly that I always chew with my left side and when I get to half of my plate, I got tired and lost my mood to eat and that must be the reason."

Alicia:"Oh no, you're already so thin please eat more lah."

And they brought me to Mcdonalds with full of concern if I can eat anot.

Josh asked me if I would like the fillet as its soft.

Here are my 2 sweeties...



After lunch, when I saw Alice, we do our usual whispering and suddenly, Alice screamed:" Hey did you just lose alot of weight???"

Start to get worried... "Is it? Oh my, Alicia just said that to me an hour ago too."

"Ya, its like so obvious when I take a close up look at you that your chin is so sharp now!"

Okay, I must have lost like don-know-how-many KGS!

That's when they really lift my Monday Blues away.

But it's a horrible feeling which I have to keep swallowing within me after my boss do a talk with me. Throughout the next following hours, I just tried to hide my emotions away and I wish I could just buried myself somewhere and cry it out.

Lucky then, I get to meet Vin which I'm totally in need of someone to be with me.

Met up with Vin on this Monday evening because I was prepared to go for my tooth extraction at 1pm on Tues and I can sleep on a little longer. But ended up, I was called back for work which I only had 3 hours of sleep that night.

Oh well, Vin is always trying his best to give me the best when we're out.

He wanted to booked the goldclass but there ain't any tickets for IronMan.

So I suggested to watch at Lido so I don't need to travel after work. Heh!

And we had our dinner at Sun with Moon.

The last treat I got before my tooth extraction!

We had quite a long chat during the dinner and he was feeling down as I tried to talk to him about his work and all.

But during which, I was feeling soooooo down after a talk with my director that noon too.

Ya, you didn't know, I was feeling as much confused as you were. But thanks for the company for that evening when I needed most.

(haa... and he just text me as when I'm blogging this lah!)

Just as I thought that I wouldn't like Iron Man, I love it so much. Again. Hope you're feeling better and sort out all your thoughts. Because I know how hurtful it is to be in deep thoughts.

The threesome is supposed to meet for lunch at 2pm but my wifey got her shift mixed up and her lunch was at 12 instead.

Jing can't make it then. And I was so worried that the lunch crowd will be crazy at 12 and my dear still insist on travelling down to Orchard and meet me.

I planned to leave office at 1150 so I could get seats and by the time wifey reaches at 1215 would be just nice. End up, my boss needs to talk to me.

Our lunch was so rush that I had to tell her quickly all about the happenings and as usual, time spent together is always not enough and this round, its only 1.5hrs!

I got so worried that she could not reach back office on time and I rushed her off to send her to the bus stop.

And I text her for the wonderful lunch and effort she made.

One fine day, Mr Pokey Nose joined in for lunch with all 5 babes and suddenly asked me:

"Hey, do you have a degree huh?"

"No."

"Oooh... Are you pursuing it now?"

"No."

So what's the story behind all these questions?

Then I was told that he asked about that because - his organisation recognised people by qualification.

Those without a degree can ONLY BE A SUPPORT - ASSISTANT!

And how come I am an EXECUTIVE?

Mr Pokey Nose conversation with Can't Be Bothered:

MPN: Oooohh... she doesn't have a degree ah? but how come she's an exec?

CBB: how I know? The contract was offered to her by your managing director lor.

MPN: Oooohhh... no lah, I'm just afraid she didn't get to enjoy her full benefit to be a support cos she can claim OT and such mah.

CBB: I don't think she minds it at all. It doesnt matter to her. By the way, she's on flexi-working arrangement.

MPN: Ahya... I just want to make sure she gets her benefit ma. Cos we gave position by qualification one.

After I was made known to why was he asking me that question, I feel that he WAS SO DAMN RUDE!

What is the problem with him?!

Get a life please!

It was such a bad bad day for me.

Now now... Who's the next hot MaMa?!

After Yan, after Candy, now - Wanjing!

Meet her beauty girl -


And here's the pretty mother. Forever so HOT!


Seriously, this is the 3rd baby's full month that I witness in less than 30 Days!

I want to be a Mummy too~! Haa~!

Just as I shop for the baby's gift, I might as well get another one together cos there's more to come! Heh!

Labels: My Friends Faculty

We dragged the handsome to lunch with us! And he's totally shocked for having to do some photoshoot before eating!

And ya, the girls are all trained in my multishots attack and they do play along very well!

Love them!

Our very unhealthy lunch!

After attending the course for 2 weeks alone at Tanjong Pagar makes me missed them so much! Because for the first week, I have to lunch alone! And then thanks to all my friends who worked around Tanjong Pagar to make the effort to lunch with me on my 2nd week. *sob*

Yeah! Finally my Web Design course is over! Hope I can pass the exam!