Week 4

24.01.2011 Monday

Started the day off with breakfast at the Clementi Hawker Centre. Popped by the bank and NTUC, then off to JB briefly before stocking up a little at Sheng Siong in Woodlands. Dropped our groceries home and headed to Mommy's!

Fixed up the new LG LED TV Poppy bought for them while Mommy made din-din for us, so we tucked in before going over to IKEA in Tampines. Bought ourselves a new set of dining chairs (finally!), a dish drainer and some miscellaneous stuff.

Loaded everything onto the car and off to Sheng Siong at Elias Mall we went. There wasn't much at the store, so we only got a carton of beer for the guests coming to our house for gathering and Poppy succumbed to temptation and bought 2 boxes of Ferrero Rocher. Went home after sending Mommy home.

25.01.2011 Tuesday

Brought Custard for her first injection at the clinic. She whined a little during the injection (must've been painful because the needle was so huge). Stocked up some canned wet food from Polypets and sent her home after our breakfast. Fed her medicine and food, then we continued with our Ngoh Hiang making!

After tolling 2 - 3 hours, I hereby proudly declare that my Ngoh Hiang's are successful! Even Poppy has to accede defeat. Caught a catnap and in the evening, we were off to fetch MIL for new year shopping at IMM. Grabbed a couple of buns for the next day's breakfast (because Poppy'll be back to work), and spent the rest of the 2 hours or so foraging the hypermart, ended up with 300-buckaroos worth of stuff, and free delivery. And there, we got ourselves a replacement fan, because the other year-old fan is cranking up.

Got home near midnight, and rested up with Poppy coz he's starting work the next day.

Random dinner with Alex, Loh and YM at Dian Xiao Er (West Coast Plaza) on Wednesday; Met Loh and YM again on Thursday for some last-minute new year shopping. Had dinner and movie (Shaolin- very nice show!) before heading home past midnight. Nothing much for the rest of the week, apart from taking 2 hours off work to send Custard for her 2nd injection.

3 days left to CNY! It's gonna be another busy CNY, and I've updated our "schedule". It's packed to the brim, as usual, but one thing's different... And that is we'll be giving out the red packets this year. If only giving them out was as easy as giving out other Baos - just buy Char Siew Bao or Tao Sar Bao and distribute. But no, we had to queue at the bank to exchange for small notes, buy some cute Ang Baos, then stuff the money in the packets. I had the urge of tearing open all the packed Ang Baos as if they were given to me. But of course, that was just a silly thought.

So much more still needs to be done. Poppy has fixed up all the rest of the dining chairs and I've put up the new year decoration. Lemming to buy more clothes because there's so many events to attend, and I haven't painted my nails and I still need to do another round of hair treatment + face mask in preparation for all the sleep-deprived days ahead. Hah!

Can't wait for it to actually be here!