Time has become so scarce these days. There seems to be insufficient time to do any things other than work. Is this what we want in life? We work so that we can live but if we live to work, then what is the meaning of life?
Labels: daily goings
Granny passed away on 29th April 2008. It was sad because I was already on the road, driving to the hospital but I didn't get the chance to see her for the very last time. When mom told me on the phone that granny has passed away, I was shocked, disbelief and tears started to stream down from my eyes. Never have I thought that my granny would depart from this world. To me, she's always the tough one, through thick or thin, her foot would be on the ground, unmoved and unshattered.
I love you ah mah. :(
I'll always miss you.
I love you ah mah. :(
I'll always miss you.
Labels: love
Tested firing of my latest acquisition. I hope HM doesn't mind that these coming days, I'll be spending more time with 'it' than him.
Cass and Fer are now engaged. I am so happy for them and especially to Fer, good job (on all the proposal preparations and effort). Cass, indeed you made the right choice :)
Quick update of what's happening in my life
Excellent! Tomorrow morning, our part-time maid will be coming at 8am to clean the house. The floors, windows, doors, toilets, etc need cleaning!
Earlier, I cooked couscous and sauce for dinner and, well of course my HM is the biggest (and only) fan. He finished up everything.
Today, finally my camera found a companion. *grinning from ear to ear* My latest acquisition....a high speed external flash! It's perfect and I Love it so much!
Mom is in Penang with CK and his wife. As usual, both of the young couple went ahead with their own plans without looking after mom. Mom called and told me that 1st aunt is looking very haggard and tired now. Mom sounded very emotional when she told me. I really want to take a trip down and see 1st aunt. Hope I can get few days off from work.
Last Monday, when the washing machine was delivered to our new home, both HM and I were so excited. We threw in few clothes and we dragged 2 chairs, sat, watched the washing machine operated while having our dinner.
All the walls have been painted. Kitchen is now completed except it's still missing the essential dining items. We can now put our stuffs in the cabinets. But... place is still dusty. Hope the maid will do a great job tomorrow.
Excellent! Tomorrow morning, our part-time maid will be coming at 8am to clean the house. The floors, windows, doors, toilets, etc need cleaning!
Earlier, I cooked couscous and sauce for dinner and, well of course my HM is the biggest (and only) fan. He finished up everything.
Today, finally my camera found a companion. *grinning from ear to ear* My latest acquisition....a high speed external flash! It's perfect and I Love it so much!
Mom is in Penang with CK and his wife. As usual, both of the young couple went ahead with their own plans without looking after mom. Mom called and told me that 1st aunt is looking very haggard and tired now. Mom sounded very emotional when she told me. I really want to take a trip down and see 1st aunt. Hope I can get few days off from work.
Last Monday, when the washing machine was delivered to our new home, both HM and I were so excited. We threw in few clothes and we dragged 2 chairs, sat, watched the washing machine operated while having our dinner.
All the walls have been painted. Kitchen is now completed except it's still missing the essential dining items. We can now put our stuffs in the cabinets. But... place is still dusty. Hope the maid will do a great job tomorrow.
Labels: own home
Mum's little blue-eyed boy has gone home after 4 days at our* new place and I've missed him already. His little food and drink bowls are still here and coming home without having him around just feels weird. His presence creates a sense of security, comfort and love. Not that I am insinuating anything but having pets make the home more complete and wholesome. Although he was here merely for 4 days but it seems like he is already part of the house and part of us. Last night, I even stayed up at 3am, thinking and missing him dearly. Sometimes, I could hear the sound of his bell from the other rooms. Maybe it's just my ears playing tricks because during his stay, he was constantly walking, jumping and surveying the entire house.
The journey back to my parents' home was not easy. He meowed sweetly and pitiful (he's not that kind of cat that meows alot) as though that he's telling me "don't send me home. I like it at your place". I wanted to keep him here but mum wouldn't agree. She can't wait to have him back. Well, at least one thing for sure, at my parents' home, he gets round-the-clock attention and mom and CC (my sis-in-law) are at home during the day time to pat him until he falls asleep satisfyingly.
Maybe someday he'll come and visit again. Maybe this weekend? Hehe
*I have to get used to being we/our now seeing that HM and I are now staying together
Labels: family
Resisting Temptation
2 Comments Published by heavenlysublime on Saturday, March 22, 2008 at 12:00 AM.
I am so tempted to purchase a white woven Bottega Veneta bag but...but... I must resist temptation because the house still needs more furnishing and I can't spend any money on bags! Arghhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!
It sucks to prioritise what is more important. The house or the bag? House or bag? House or bag?
Should I rush to Avenue K tomorrow or save up the money for kitchen cabinet? ARGHH!!!
Prioritise woman! Prioritse!!!!!
It sucks to prioritise what is more important. The house or the bag? House or bag? House or bag?
Should I rush to Avenue K tomorrow or save up the money for kitchen cabinet? ARGHH!!!
Prioritise woman! Prioritse!!!!!
I wasn't feeling very well today. With my flu, deteriorating day by day and deprived of proper sleep, today is just not the day for me to spring out from bed and start cleaning up the new place. It's just too much work.
HM was out the entire day while I was sleeping away in the room with curtain-less windows. Come 5pm, I was awake, showered and he was back. He took me out to see a doctor, which to great difficulty to hunt down around the new area. To be frank, it's not very difficult but I am just being a pain in the ass.
The doctor told me:
- to shower with hot water,
- to stop eating fruits,
- to stop eating sour food,
- to avoid chicken,
- to stay away from oily, fried and spicy food and
- to stop drinking coffee
... until I recover. Well, I think I'll miss the coffee part more and since he didn't mention about the smoking part, I'll just pretend it's OK to smoke.
When we got back to our new home, I went to the soon to be AV room and saw a box lying ontop of the black couch. HM, while I was sleeping went to buy an automatic vacuum!!! He didn't say a word when he brought it in and he charged it in time for us to come back and try it out. It is so cool!!!!! Love it! Love it! Love it! Love it! It can set the room perimeter by its own and clean the area effectively. It has already cleaned up the AV room and the guest room!
Now I don't need to vacuum the place because I have a robot to do that!!!! Wooooooooohoo.
HM was out the entire day while I was sleeping away in the room with curtain-less windows. Come 5pm, I was awake, showered and he was back. He took me out to see a doctor, which to great difficulty to hunt down around the new area. To be frank, it's not very difficult but I am just being a pain in the ass.
The doctor told me:
- to shower with hot water,
- to stop eating fruits,
- to stop eating sour food,
- to avoid chicken,
- to stay away from oily, fried and spicy food and
- to stop drinking coffee
... until I recover. Well, I think I'll miss the coffee part more and since he didn't mention about the smoking part, I'll just pretend it's OK to smoke.
When we got back to our new home, I went to the soon to be AV room and saw a box lying ontop of the black couch. HM, while I was sleeping went to buy an automatic vacuum!!! He didn't say a word when he brought it in and he charged it in time for us to come back and try it out. It is so cool!!!!! Love it! Love it! Love it! Love it! It can set the room perimeter by its own and clean the area effectively. It has already cleaned up the AV room and the guest room!
Now I don't need to vacuum the place because I have a robot to do that!!!! Wooooooooohoo.
The mattress and bed have arrived! I am so delighted and both HM and I decided to stay over tonight. While I am blogging here, he is eating KFC, drinking Milo and watching Spiderman 3 on the projector. The house is not really furnished yet. All we have - A mattress, a black coffee table, laptops and a projector. We haven't gotten anyone to do up the curtains yet so we you can imagine how bare the house is. We ought to becareful not to walk around naked. Don't really want our neighbours to know us that well.
On the other hand, I think it's so romantic and wonderful having curtain-less windows. We could gaze at the starry sky, lying side by side, holding hands and totally immerse in 'our world'. So heavenly.
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Miss K told me that there'll be a portrait photography seminar this coming month but she may not be able to attend because she has promised her friend to be powerpoint operator at some not-so-important conference. I never knew there is such job and apparently, you could earn up to $400 per day. That's quite reasonable, seeing that it's a weekend job. For me, my weekends would be priceless. That's the only time when I could spend more time with my loved ones.
Anyway, I disgressed. I really want Karen to attend the seminar because I want to go too. I don't want to attend all by myself and I know we would enjoy it if both of us went together. My impending task now is to get someone to replace her at the not-so-important conference.
So powerpoint experts out there if you read this, please email me ASAP.
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On the other hand, I think it's so romantic and wonderful having curtain-less windows. We could gaze at the starry sky, lying side by side, holding hands and totally immerse in 'our world'. So heavenly.
Miss K told me that there'll be a portrait photography seminar this coming month but she may not be able to attend because she has promised her friend to be powerpoint operator at some not-so-important conference. I never knew there is such job and apparently, you could earn up to $400 per day. That's quite reasonable, seeing that it's a weekend job. For me, my weekends would be priceless. That's the only time when I could spend more time with my loved ones.
Anyway, I disgressed. I really want Karen to attend the seminar because I want to go too. I don't want to attend all by myself and I know we would enjoy it if both of us went together. My impending task now is to get someone to replace her at the not-so-important conference.
So powerpoint experts out there if you read this, please email me ASAP.
Labels: justblog
We have finally bought a mattress and a bed! It took us more than 2 months (of inconsistent weekends) of testing mattresses ranging from $30G to the lowest of a grand plus. Ha! And I thought buying a mattress would be as easy as buying a pillow. But it is important to get the right mattress because we don't want to wake up at the wrong side of the bed.
With the intention of buying the mattress tonight, we headed out after dinner at HM's aunt's mansion. The shop where we intended to get Slumberland Royal Princess mattress was closed. We had been waiting for that shop to open ever since the CNY holidays but the indian shopkeeper was on CNY holiday mood and I guess tonight is one of the nights where he decided to close the shop early. So we had to go to another shop which we spotted along the way. Oh well, another man's lose is another man's gain. We went to the 2nd shop and they are official seller for Dunlopillo (I love Dunlopillo but since we tried the Royal Princess before, we couldn't really decide which was better between Dunlopillo and Slumberland).
After trying out at least 5 Dunlopillo mattresses at that shop, we finally settled on a king size Dunlopillo Duchess - combinatin of latex and honeycomb pocketed springs with anti dustmite stretch fabric! Sheer luxury!! Love it love it love! Can't wait for them to deliver over to the new house. Can't wait to sleep on it. Best part of the bed is that if HM's moves around, I can't feel a thing. Sleepyhead is going into blissful unconsciousness with Duchess. But of course, the blissfulness is completed with HM next to me and forgetting about the world outside :)
Do you know how difficult it is to choose the right bed?
Imagine going through tons and tons of mattresses to test out:
1. Firmness! I love soft matress but because of my back and shoulder pain, I have to forgo the comfort of soft matresses. Need a good support for my back!
2. Comfort. On top of being firm, I have to feel comfortable. Some of the firm mattresses I tried, I almost had sea sick. Don't ask me why but there is this feeling inside that makes me want to barf.
3. Support. There are some chiropatric mattresses out there for bed. Proven by doctors (macam la ade certificate but I am sucker for this)
4. Width of the matress has to be huge because I'll be sharing it with HM. Must have enough space for both of us to roll around. Even if he moves frequently, I won't be disturbed from my sleep.
5. Quality. Me no go for cheap stuff! Lower priced mattresses are not so durable and they are thin, poorly made and lack of firmness to give any support.
Finding the perfect matress is important because it's for HM and my health, rest, and peace of mind. Just like the old saying goes... Sleep well, stay healthy
With the intention of buying the mattress tonight, we headed out after dinner at HM's aunt's mansion. The shop where we intended to get Slumberland Royal Princess mattress was closed. We had been waiting for that shop to open ever since the CNY holidays but the indian shopkeeper was on CNY holiday mood and I guess tonight is one of the nights where he decided to close the shop early. So we had to go to another shop which we spotted along the way. Oh well, another man's lose is another man's gain. We went to the 2nd shop and they are official seller for Dunlopillo (I love Dunlopillo but since we tried the Royal Princess before, we couldn't really decide which was better between Dunlopillo and Slumberland).
After trying out at least 5 Dunlopillo mattresses at that shop, we finally settled on a king size Dunlopillo Duchess - combinatin of latex and honeycomb pocketed springs with anti dustmite stretch fabric! Sheer luxury!! Love it love it love! Can't wait for them to deliver over to the new house. Can't wait to sleep on it. Best part of the bed is that if HM's moves around, I can't feel a thing. Sleepyhead is going into blissful unconsciousness with Duchess. But of course, the blissfulness is completed with HM next to me and forgetting about the world outside :)
Do you know how difficult it is to choose the right bed?
Imagine going through tons and tons of mattresses to test out:
1. Firmness! I love soft matress but because of my back and shoulder pain, I have to forgo the comfort of soft matresses. Need a good support for my back!
2. Comfort. On top of being firm, I have to feel comfortable. Some of the firm mattresses I tried, I almost had sea sick. Don't ask me why but there is this feeling inside that makes me want to barf.
3. Support. There are some chiropatric mattresses out there for bed. Proven by doctors (macam la ade certificate but I am sucker for this)
4. Width of the matress has to be huge because I'll be sharing it with HM. Must have enough space for both of us to roll around. Even if he moves frequently, I won't be disturbed from my sleep.
5. Quality. Me no go for cheap stuff! Lower priced mattresses are not so durable and they are thin, poorly made and lack of firmness to give any support.
Finding the perfect matress is important because it's for HM and my health, rest, and peace of mind. Just like the old saying goes... Sleep well, stay healthy
Labels: own home
It needs no windy description. All that matters is that I've found it. :)
A loss to Hollywood, a loss to my unceasing need of theatrical stories (I'm a movie buff). A very talented Aussie actor debuted to me to know in 10 Things I Hate About You has passed away....Heath Ledger will be remembered.
Please Teach Me Mandarin
3 Comments Published by heavenlysublime on Wednesday, January 02, 2008 at 12:23 AM.
Someone please teach me Mandarin. Today, not knowingly at the massage centre, I agreed to 1.5 hours of massage and seriously, I have no idea what that woman was talking about.
I need to learn how to speak the following in Mandarin:
1. I want to sleep, please don't speak to me.
2. A little harder please.
3. Softer please. You're killing me!
4. No. I don't want to extend the time.
5. No. I don't want you to massage my breasts.
6. Please concentrate more on my neck. My neck hurts.
7. I can't talk to you.
8. No. My house is not nearby and no, you cannot know my address.
9. You can't have my number. I'll call you if I need you.
10. No. I don't earn a lot.
I need to learn how to speak the following in Mandarin:
1. I want to sleep, please don't speak to me.
2. A little harder please.
3. Softer please. You're killing me!
4. No. I don't want to extend the time.
5. No. I don't want you to massage my breasts.
6. Please concentrate more on my neck. My neck hurts.
7. I can't talk to you.
8. No. My house is not nearby and no, you cannot know my address.
9. You can't have my number. I'll call you if I need you.
10. No. I don't earn a lot.
Labels: learn mandarin
