an Off Day

Today is such a beautiful lovely day
I so don't want it to end.
Perhaps that is y i am still up at 230am, the next day technically.

I am off today.
No gloom and grey of the office.
No sneaky smiles and knowing glances and awkward shifting gazes.
No doodling and no boredom of corporate hell.

Just a wonderful free day out and about with my sweetheart.
We went to HDB.
Yes, we are about a mth away from being proud house owners!
Once the loans are approved today, we are only one inspection away from collecting the keys!
A (small) unit to my name.
Happy as a lark.

I haven't forgotten the road here.
Just a year or 2 ago,
I was still discussing with frens on renting a place, moving out, having our own pad.
Away from the folks.
Now, age 25, I have a place!
Permanently. How cool is tat?

After that we headed to AMK Industrial Park.
Terence will never pass an off day without dropping by the workshop to zhng his car further.
So of cos, we spent a few hours at some groggy workshop.
He was changing his exhaust... or rather, supersizing it.
For only the second time in the last year.

Then we went dress hunting in town.
And had a fab lunch.
And hooray, I even had time to find my most-wanted Topshop bag!
It's back!
I can't beliv it.
It was from the last season and I had kicked myself for not getting it b4 it completely sold out in ALL outlets. Can't beliv they brought it back.
I mean, really, tis Topshop.
They don't do repeats, especially not from the season tat just passed.
How lucky can I get?
I bought it on the spot this time.

Then we rushed back to his shop.
Unlike me, he only had half a day off.
So i went down to play and chill for a few hours.

Nothing really significant...
It's just tat, ever since I switched jobs,
We hadn't had a week day to idle like this.
I used to be off on weekdays all the time in the past,
A few days at a stretch.
And I can idle ard in town, at his shop, running errands, gog to car workshops, doing nothing.
We just haven't enjoyed this feeling for a couple of months.
It's very rare that he is semi-off or have any time off on a week day too.
Was a good break from the doldrums of work and cubicled life.

A Prayer for Myself

I wish...

To be more calm.
To be more sensible.
To treasure every moment and every good person in my life.
To be more trusting of him.
To be less insecure.
To be more accommodating.
To count my blessings.
To love myself more.
To be more giving.
To be more stable.

Fashion Binge

How to Look 10 Years Older and Younger,
by Diane Kruger and Alyssa Milano respectively.






Jessica shows how less is more sometimes.
Keeping it simple is sometimes, pretty enough.





Gorgeous white dresses





I love ShopBop.

the weekend that was

It was a weekend of extremes.

On Saturday, a day when I could not possibly get more down and sian,
Me and Shiyun signed up for a SAFRA membership.
So... hello treadmills and cool pool for the next 3 mths.
Tis my 3rd attempt to be a gym bunny after Fitness First & St Gregory's.
Third time lucky?

Then we spent the afternoon lounging ard Orchard Rd, checking out burgers and books, CDs and magazines and all of the best indulgences of life.
Aft she left, I was so bored I went to pump petrol.

Don't ask me how it came to me spending millions at Topshop Marina Square later.
En route to meeting pp at Esplanade.
How hopeless can I get?
I was supposed to pass by Marina Square, not go on a mad shopping spree there!
Gosh, Topshop is evil.
Bought 2 tops and a black leather bag.
Don't blame me.
I am May-Topshop-Kek.

And finally, I reached the Esplanade. Like $200 poorer.
Met the whole Rooters bunch for a great nite out.
By the time I arrived, they were wiping clean their seafood feast of chili crabs.
Good thing as well... spare me the smelly fingers and dodgy lime-y washwater.
We headed for Loof at Odeon.
Very overrated rooftop bar, in my opinion.
Gosh, how tiring it is to see young folks in their youthful 20s trying to
look cool, stand cool and talk cool for a few hours.
And forget about service.
The wait staff there was the real spoiler of the nite.
And if I had a dollar for a poserish dress or fake accent, I'd be Donald Trump that night.
Good thing I had great company.

We couldn't bear the posing and headed, ironically,
for a more classy place that was so much more relaxed and laid back.
More our kinda hangout - IntroBar at Westin.
Was my first time at this cool hotel bar/lounge-y place.
It was so much more real.
We stayed there the rest of the night.
I miss my Rooters people.
Love them to bits. Really.
The jokes, attacks, insults, laughter, gossips flowed non-stop.
What a great great bunch of pp I have the privilege to call frens.

I was half the joke of the nite when, with everyone sitting in my yellow mobile,
I almost mistook the deceptive rubbish dump at Odeon for the carpark.
Tis the kinda stuff I'm known for.

And to think that I was in such a sour sian mood the entire Saturday
that I fed thoughts of actually not gog for the get-together.
I was telling myself - Seafood? Urghhhh.
And being in that mood, big get-togethers were the last thing on my mind.
Turns out to be an intimate thing, with just about 7 of us having a fantastic nite.

Sunday was so-so.
Checked out some potential wedding photography location at Raffles Marina with terence and his fren.
Nice place, but the sun was scorching hot. At 530pm!
How can that be?
Is Tuas staring straight at the sun?
Maybe Tuas is where the equator really is.
Kinda impractical, if we were to have the shoot about 3-4pm.

Then had dinner with his entire family at Tanah Merah.
My fave restaurant of all time.
Was a treat before his brother gets hitched to the Russian wife on Wednesday.
Nice time by the coast.

I am getting used to the idea of weekends now.
Yes, i am gog to have every wkend from now on.
I am on a "normal" 5-day 10-5pm job.
Starting to get the groove back.

That's a gd thing right?

the fortnite that was

A lot has happened these 2 weeks.

1. I found my wedding gown. In fact, I found 2. And not one evening gown. So... we'll see. I may not even wear an evening gown. Somehow, as we found out at the studio that day, I just don't have the persona to wear an evening gown. The colours, unlike the pretty white of a wedding gown, don't seem to go well with me. The sombre, dark colours... either that or they are too striking/pastel/bright. The only colour I kinda like - champagne gold and light light yellow - were not available. I didn't take well to dark blue, black, red/dark red, bright pinks, green/turquioise.... i find that evening gowns jus seem to pile on the years for u. Either that, or the studio jus totally fail in designing nice eveningwear. Oh well, at least I have my Vera Wang-lookalike gown. Two beautiful ones, in fact. Good enough for me for now.

2. I am almost completing the first issue of my magazine. Going to print next week. I wonder how it will feel to have the magazine in my hands on the day it is out. That feels kinda nice actually.

3. Have returned from Bintan for Terence's 29th birthday. It was a total surprise for him, who thought we were gog to East Coast Beach probably. Me, on the other hand, is about $500 poorer. Horrible ferry ride but nice beach, nice snorkelling, pretty place. Too much of a tourist trap though. Better for people above 35. But nice time. I think 2D 1 N is just enough. Any more and i'll be bored. More for water sports and relaxing than anyth else.

4. Met some friends tonite whom I haven't seen for a while. Some were my frens in Oz. It was a great treat n it was great to see them. They reminded me of the times in Brissy, a time that seemed far away alreadi. It was 3 yrs back. Gosh. Everyone now is more settled, more subdued, working hard and reaping from the college years we forged tog.

5. Neeed to shop desperately.


Blessed Be.

Studs of the World Cup

Oh my, what studs.
No wonder I can wake up to catch the match.

Very my kind of man.