Tyrannical Shrewd

1. Unknowingly, almost half of 2008 is gonna be gone
2. Unknowingly, my birthday is around the corner
3. Unknowingly, I’m married for coming 6 months
4. Unknowingly, I’ve worked in my new place for 1 month
5. Unknowingly, I’ve saved a fair bit of money this month by working OT and claiming cab and meal allowances (To be submitted next week)

Time passes so fast and soon it will be June. So many things happened in this coming 6 months like getting married and moving on to another job but there are still so many other things to do! 1 big thing that must proceed is getting a house and it’s been getting me all uptight and fustrated. I shall save the rantings which I have told Kong on my blog. It’s just so… (You know what I mean)

Looking back at my entries, I realised that I haven’t been talking about my shopping spree? It’s not that I haven’t really shopped but I did shop quite a fair bit but in moderation (except in Feb where CNY hits the town)!

1. My purple medium sized Longchamp bag is still pretty much my favourite for work but it’s a tad too hard to match around with my office wear. Sad to say, it’s inner white is getting a little dirty and I must admit I’m not a very tidy and careful girl. I guess it’s time for some baby wipes!

2. My G2000, Ness and GG5 apparels for work. I got to admit I spent like near 300 bucks on it but Ness and GG5 was bought with 50% discount! Ah hem.. As for G2000, I earned a privilege card that enitles me to 15% discount and more on my birthday! I’m pretty much in love with G2000 pink label but the apparels are still too big for me at times.

3. Charles & Keith office heels. I’m getting much more in loves with covered shoes. Yes, I mean it! Perhaps nobody will know that I hate covered shoes except for Mr Loh but I recently has found a liking for it! Smarter for work and of course save the pain of people stepping on my toes.

4. Natural skincare! Goodness of mother earth! My skin has shown dramatic (maybe not so afterall) improvement even mummy has commented it looks nicer and glowing with little radiance. From now onwards, I will most likely boycott all commercial products and focus on my all new liking which definately helps my skin. Even my dermatitis is gone so what else could be better ai? I am loving Mountain Rose Herbs (MRH) so much!

5. Hot from the curlers… My new hairstyle! Something I need to admit how contradicting I can be towards perms. I find it a hassle to maintain and style but I still did it again. I’m pretty satisfied with my results and I love it! The few comments I received made me feel that it’s not a bad move afterall!

So… 5 points and 1 for each month? If it really equates to 1 for each month, I have overspent by 1 month! Not really the way to consider if I’ve been saving because my natural skincare is an ongoing investment. Apart from spending, I’ve also been saving quite a fair bit so I’m feeling justified. Hmm… Going to take back the words for once because I’m lemming for Louis Vuitton Trevi/Tivoli/Speedy 25 (either 1 because I’m not greedy haha!), Coach Carly in medium, Salvatore Ferragamo pumps, more apparels, etc… The “etc” sounds scary but I know I won’t do such extensive shopping. Just going to take this as a little birthday treat for myself or are there any sponsors out there? Nah no worries to those who know me and are reading this post, I’m just joking!

Apart from all these lemmings, I haven’t really settled a date for the San Francisco trip I’m planning. Wedding invitations are hitting just the periods that I plan for a short hiatus. Looks like I need to re-visit my calendar for new dates again…

Extremely off from these post or it may somewhat be kind of relevant from a comment from my boss, “You seems very brand conscious ai?”. My reply was “Nope, not always because you have not seen my none branded stuff!” *grinz*

P/S: I’ve decided to renew this domain after extremely long thoughts. So it’s here for good for another year!

2 weeks have passed since the start of a new job. Hectic project schedule, getting on track with the domain knowledge, SIT, UAT, and more. At work for close to or more than 12 hours a day.. All these sounds so horrible but it ain’t that horrible because I am occupied every second (not every minute) in the office but till now no regrets. (I do have one that is I can’t get on MSN to chat with Kong and some of my buddies because I haven’t get my hands on the USB modem yet.) 1 thing for sure is that they didn’t lie to me with regards to my job scope. I guess between work and leisure time, I will give up a bit of leisure time to work things out but I will still continue with my research on natural skin care and of course talking to Kong!

It’s near 2 in the morning right now but I have the urge to do a post although my mind is blank like a piece of white paper. All I really wanted to say right now is at this point of time, I do not regret my decision. I mark this as the beginning and stepping stone to my next step. I am not saying that I have the intention to job hop in near 2 years but at least I know what I’m worth in the future. I feel at least it’s a lot more than what I’m having now.

Time passes so fast now. I don’t think I will need to pin for the month of June to come by fast. Work hard and save hard till June! That sounds pretty much disastrous but I know I’m going to love the coming month of June. *Someone pls keep all my cards and ATM card!*

I’m going to suffer a painful experience this evening. Acetone on my broken nail that broke on my nail bed. No other alternative except to remove the gel extension.

I’ll never jump on the bed to tidy the bedsheet. I will never never do that anymore. I know it sounds like a joke but because I’m plain lazy to get out the bed. Let’s hope the session coming this evening will not be so torturous.

I was watching a chinese serial few hours back on our local channel. It was the last episode for the serial and it triggered some thoughts in my mind because 3 besties crossed all hurdles and obstacles to be the best of buddies again..

Will you ever be that magnanimous to forgive 2 girlfriends whom you regarded as your besties yet are the people who didn’t turned up for ur marriage solemnisation? 2 months has passed yet I can’t find myself forgiving them. I’m not someone who bares hatred unless you have pissed me off totally but it just disappoints me to know both just kind of played me out on my very big day. Both of them were supposed to be the receptionist and just notified me 2 hrs before the event commence. 1 told me she’s sick (not that I’m inconsiderate but she could have told me upon waking up) while the other had a serious hangover (drank like nobody business yet promised me she will definately make it for my marriage solemnisation). Apart from not turning up, they sabotaged me by not attending when we have already confirmed their appointments with my make-up artist who would help them make-up and look pretty before my marriage solemnisation.

Love is not only being magnanimous but also being considerate. I have been very nice I feel (in my opinion). I let him take a nap and rest/slack but I never could take someone who slept like coming 6 hours in the day. Sleeping the entire day away while your partner just stare at you sleep. I will never do such inconsiderate stuff unless I fall sick because once night falls we will be going to sleep again. I’m utterly speechless with such behaviour. I called out, shake and disturb him but to no avail. I self-entertained myself by playing on the psp, reading some organic skin care books and surfing the net. I seriously am not so magnanimous to forgive him so easily because what difference would it make if my existence is here or not. I could have stayed home or went out (although I will not because I want to save up). To speak my mind, I’m utterly disappointed because marriage is not about confirming your status and throwing your partner alone when you only meet up twice a week. It’s about doing some stuff together or enjoying each others companionship till old. It would be a different case if both are staying together because I understand everybody needs a fair amount of freedom and space but we aren’t staying together at the moment as a matter of fact! Am I asking for too much?

So much about being magnanimous or am I just being too self-centered?

I realised I haven’t been posting for a while due to the rush of application release to the sales folks out there. I haven’t been beautifying my website and also haven’t been changing my blog design. So many “Haven’t yet”. Yours truly is indeed a procrastinator.

I am in a relaxed mood today. I’ve managed to solve an issue but it’s solely because I’m blur. Pun not intended because I hate to take a whole day solving an issue which is easily resolved in 5 minutes.

Haven’t had much to blog lately except that sourcing and applying for flats has taken much of my time. I realised I’ve become a little bit more of a guru in anything relating to applying for flats. To date, I’ve spent 30 bucks on application fee. Kudos to them for implementing the $10 application fee. If you can read my tone.. *snigger* Oh, I’m going to pick up my knitting needles again. I’m gonna knit something for Kong and Jana. I hope that I’m able to save enough to visit them at San Francisco this year..

Whatever it is, I’m in for another adventure soon.. Less time, more work and more money coming in (I hope)..

On a work related note: if u ever use Forms Services when dealing with InfoPath Forms, PLEASE remember to update any URL linking to it. If you don’t, you are pointing to an older version of the InfoPath Form you are using. I published the form donkey times to the Form Library to find the changes are not reflected when I did not update the link. What a dumb pig.

Counting down.. 5 more days to my ROM Solemnisation

Catch a glimpse..

CitiGems Wedding Band!

My ROM Dress from Jess Haute Couture!

Stylo Dude!

I’m kinda obsessed with my new baby.. It’s a sin to splurge when my ROM is drawing near but everyboday needs a treat yeah? Got my hands on it and it has not left my hands till it’s running low on battery. My World of Warcraft is neglected.. Don’t worry, I’ll be back for arena! =)

Psss, I got mine in ceramic white!

Renzze: Thanks so much my dear! I will remember to take some photos on the 2nd fitting. Btw, you look really gorgeous on your wedding. Breathtaking..

I just had my first fitting earlier on. The dress fits nicely and Jessica did the pickups on the spot while I’m wearing it. The volume is there and in fact it looks very round due to the can can she asked the seamstress to add on. In my opinion, she’s professional. From the way she carefully selects each pickup area to how she pin and finally asking me if the whole dress is okay. It’s a very pretty dress in my opinion. The leafy green ribbon didn’t turn out as bad as I thought it would be but I guess it still lacks the nice ribbon look which only my mum can do it. It’s a pity boy did not get the chance to snap some photos as he was quite tired from work since yesterday night 9pm till this morning 6am.

Today was a pretty hectic day. I had to wake him up at 12pm to make a trip down to Far East Plaza to see if I’ve the luck of grabbing my heels. Yes, it’s a last minute shopping. I’m supposed to get my heels way before today for the fitting but only managed to grab it in the early noon. I didn’t splurge as much on the heels as I thought I would. Thank god I found my heels! I think we practically travel all around Singapore today. From AMK -> Far East Plaza -> GWC -> Jess Haute Couture -> Toa Payoh (collecting his boots back from Desmond for reservist tomorrow) and back to AMK.

I was feeling so bored and went surfing Friendster. I just felt so moody realising that my girlfriends of poly days still do contact each other from the notes they have posted to each other. It’s not exactly a bad thing that they still keep in contact but I seem to have lost contact with them. It just made me thought if I was disliked by them or is just that once we start work, everybody drift apart. Erm, but they didn’t? I started to ponder and realised that I haven’t been catching up with anybody in particular since I started work near 4 years back. I’m constantly at work every Monday to Friday (and most of the Saturday in my first 2 jobs). Also, working late every single day is nothing new because it just seemed to be a routine in my life. Was that the reason of losing all the fun with my girlfriends? On the contrary, I realised that I’ve lots of guy buddies. They are a fun group to hang out with although different cliques. I started to ponder, would I have sisters for gate crashing if in the future should we intend to hold customary? While typing, I’m still clueless. I can’t seem to name much girlfriends now but I could just get a list of guy buddies of my mind. I seem to get along with all my guy buddies so well that did I forgotten all my girlfriends? I believe I didn’t but I guess we all drifted apart. They are not into IT although we studied for an IT diploma together. Among all, I guess I’m the only one who is stil in the IT line. Does the difference in interest in job caused the drifting apart or was I never considered in their clique at all?

I might have lots of thoughts running through my head right now. Maybe I’m too stressed out.. Work, deadlines, ROM preparation.. He’s booking in for reservist tomorrow morning and be back 2 weeks later. There are still a few issues not ironed out. I’m wondering is it me who is over paranoid even though it’s just a solemnisation or are we really running out of time? The topic on girlfriends is still running in my mind…

It ain’t fantastic. Although I was born with a near silver spoon, that all happened because my mum was working. Being able to get the best items in the world doesn’t equate to being treated with tender loving care. I was perhaps lucky that she resigned from work because of me. I managed to sneak out of my horrible auntie (at that point of time) but I started to learn what is poverty. I’ve been all the way deep down to the bottom of the pit-hole and embrace myself to climb up again. Things that don’t kill you would make you grow stronger. Looking back, I feel that I’m much more fortunate now. I have grown a lot more mature compared to the past. No more stupid acts and I start to treasure my mother even more than before. As for my boy, I have no complaints. These 4 years have been sweet. Not much quarrels which can be counted using fingers but lots of gifts, care and concern which are uncountable. Ahh.. I’m dwelling too much.. Ignore me, I’m feeling melancholy..

Lately, my posts has been revolving around my boy and I guess because the ROM solemnisation is taking place soon. Another 1.5mths..

It’s 2AM in the morning and I’m still wide awake. He’s out working overtime while I’m at his place waiting for his return. Just as CW mentioned to me that I have cut down a lot on WoW. I realised too.. The reason is he has stopped his subscription for the time being and I’ve been spending more time with him rather than my pretty draenei priest. Sometimes, it’s just like a love-hate relationship. I can’t imagine stopping the game because I’m loving it but I can’t see myself not spending time with him as I only see him during the weekends. I’ve never regretted giving up most of my gaming time. I somehow look forward to the future with him..

P/S: I haven’t buy my heels, his shirt and pants.. I’m left with 2 weeks in exact to source for my perfect heels!