1 more month to........Christmas!!

That was totally random but it never fails to amuse me how time flies, and realise how all the malls and roads will be packed with people doing christmas shopping, taking photos of christmas trees and lights etc, and that also means time to crack my brains on what christmas gifts to buy! (and to find time to go searching for them).

But before that, cheeky and I are embarking on adventures to various places in Singapore in search for venues for our photoshoot!!
We went Changi coastal walk (I would certainly love to do a shot standing in the middle of the road with trees shadowing the whole long and straight path, provided we don't get knocked down), we checked out Punggol waterways (with lots of kids playing on a weekend), and lorong halus (very nice and quiet and well-hidden place only accessible by bicycle or on foot)

Part of THE punggol waterway, and yes, with lots and lots of constructions going on all around it.

Now that's the Lorong Halus bridge and we're amazed how it links punggol and pasir ris, and even more amazed it's just a stone's throw from all the pasir ris fish farms and we're so near it almost every week! And look at how empty it is on a rare bright and sunny saturday afternoon!!

Now cheeky is all more tempted to get a bicycle... hmmmm...

We love nemo

What an overdue post because I've been so busy with work and stuff, but nonetheless, what beats ending each day than seeing my loves.

Some things are love at first sight, some builds up over time. Nemo to me was undoubtly love at first sight. I was taken by surprise when cheeky told me 'let's do a nemo tank!' I thought he was joking because it was meant to be part of our new house project, but no, he was serious (and indeed very hardworking when it comes to research).
And so we started our project nemo, travelling from pasir ris to lim chu kang to get the equipments, starting with making salt water, to buying rocks and sand, to testing the water parameters, getting all the pumps, skimmer, chiller, filters going, to finally getting our lovely pair of nemo! Lots of money, time and effort spent, but we're loving it!

Look at these silly little fishies, I can just sit at the sofa and look at them swim all day, no wonder they are called clowns.

And we added other creatures like the gobies that look perpetually sad, doctor shrimp, pistol shrimps as the gobies companion, some snails, 2 sea urchins that can never stop pooping, a wrasse that really lies down in the sand to sleep at night. And lots of corals!

Look at that cute sad face, how to not love them too?

My cute little urchin that is also a pooping machine.

I was trying to take video of how my little doctor shrimp plays with it's shedded shell, but spot the pooping machine on top!!

And initially I only thought of keeping nemo and other fish, until we started playing with corals. These little living things have amazing power of changing sizes with light and serves as great playground for my nemos.

That's our little sun coral that's finally in full bloom weeks after buying it. 

Now besides catching movies and catching up on sleep during weekends, we have lots of new places to go and explore! And having crazy ideas of how to do up the tank in our new house!

We're 5

Months as hubby and wifey!

So glad to be home in cheeky's arms again!

凌晨3点钟

也許我們都意會到　這次面對的幸福　是真的來臨
因為太珍惜所以才猶豫　忘了先把彼此抱緊

我不是流言　不能猜測你
瘋狂的遊戲　需要誰准許
別人怎麼說　我都不介意
我愛不愛你　日久見人心

存一寸光陰　換一個世紀
摘一片苦心　釀一滴蜂蜜
用盡了全力　只為在一起
我愛不愛你　愛久見人心

那时年纪轻轻的我，曾不相信爱情。直到你的出现让我发现其实爱一个人并不难。后来，我渐渐地发现，‘我’在我的字典中以慢慢消失，已经被‘我们’与‘你’所取代了。

独自在这陌生的城市，我多么希望开门的时候不是看到不是那整齐宽阔的房间，而是你那张顽皮的脸，和一个紧紧的拥抱。

Goodbye holidays!

Damn it, good times really pass too fast. 2 weeks of idleness is coming to an end just like that?

Been catching up on my exercise regime, brushing up on my driving skills and spending more time at home with mom and sis.

Made a long journey to the west back home on Tuesday because it was raining so heavily in the morning I decided to stay in in bed. Stopped over at Orchard just for a walk and some shopping, and bought NOTHING! Even the mooncakes in taka didn't really interest me. I remember how I looked forward to that every mid-autumn and I would just go one round to eat mooncakes! Only the Prada bag seemed to catch my eyes haha. Is that a result of age catching up??

Went to check out Yonex warehouse sale on Fri for cheeky and look at what I've gotten him:

And knowing badminton is not my sports, I had completely no idea which rackets are good so I took photos for cheeky to see and research and I ended up with 2 rackets, 1 badminton bag, 2 polo shirts and 2 pairs of shorts, all for my cheeky boy! And luckily I was kiasu enough to head down to the sale early in the morning and managed to grab the yellow LCW's racket (which was already out of stock 2 hours into the sale!) 

And haiz, what a heavy price to pay to grab those loots...

The warehouse carpark was so freaking narrow and there's only 1 pathetic tiny path with barely 5cm of allowance on both sides for both in and out traffic. As I was heading out, a van was coming in and so I squeezed and stopped the car along the side of the road to let him pass, but he still brushed against my little car and scrapped off some of her skin. 

Haiz... I feel so bad, cos that's cheeky's little darling and he's been taking so good care of her all these years.

And my last bday present (sponsored by mommy): iPhone 5!!

The white one's mine and the black one's for my fil. We were just trying our luck after lunch and everything was in-stock and the queue wasn't that long and we managed to get everything settled in about 2 hours!

New phone, new month, new job, here I come!

Forever 21!

For the 6th time round this year. Oh well, age is just a number isn't it?

How else to celebrate birthday other than food and more food? And I've been running/swimming everyday to eat my cakes without too much guilt.

My first cake from awfully chocolate! (And looking super auntie here)

My 2nd and 3rd long awaited cakes from k.ki. LRRH is still my fav :)

Bday dinner at zero.zero. Chanced upon the place while foodblog surfing and decided to give it a try since it's quite atas and highly recommended on HGW and most importantly, it's having a 1-for-1 on their 6 course set meal (usually $89.90++ ).

Situated in one corner of Central overlooking the river, it's one of the posh-looking restaurants I'll never walk into if I'm looking for food in Central. The ambience was good, with live performance of a mixture of familiar English and Mandarin songs.

Now this is the dish that caught my attention. Beef loin on Houba leaf. See the beef looks so rare because you can slowly 'barbeque' it on the leaf over the very-hot-stone. Don't ask me what's a Houba leaf cos it just looks like a normal dead leaf, but it does give a special aroma to the beef. It came with a special sauce on the side (not shown) as well and this is definitely one of the meats I'll eat.

The other food were good, but they came so slow! We sat for 3 hours to finish the dinner and they even prepared the wrong food! Will I re-visit? Maybe, if the promotion is still on.

Checking out the mid-autumn lights at Clarke Quay after dinner.

And my last bday cake with the 2 bullies in my house!!

For you are made for greater things than this

And so I threw the letter a month ago and finished my last day of work last Friday and began 2 weeks of new-found freedom.
Honestly, I'm feeling a bit jittery moving into a totally new company and jobscope. I've no idea how my new colleagues will be like, and I've been warned by everybody that it's going to be a stressful job. So just let me relax for 2 weeks before stepping into the workforce again.

Time flies like a banana when you're enjoying it. Slacked at home on Monday after koping cheeky's car and driving him to work, followed by a morning run. Tuesday kidnapped cheeky out for lunch to collect our free luggage (cos it ran out of stock during natas) and then going to pay $$ to renew my tcm license (money suckers!). Today I slacked at cheeky's house, cleaned up his room a bit, adjusting the new fish tank water (more to come!), clearing the stupid dog's poo!! then went for a dip in the pool before going for my pre-employment checkup in the afternoon. Why doesn't a day at work pass this fast?

Enjoying last few days of being 25, Age is just a number, I'm still young!