Lazy off days

had a department dinner treat from Beng yesterday.

food was pretty ok, but we got to spend a good amount of time chatting and crapping.

Benson sent me back to mr ma's place afterwards.

mr ma has had a long, tiring day at the 2nd day of some course his workplace sent him.

i was told he went through a refresher on unarmed combat techniques during the day.

since he was too tired to even lift a finger, i decided not to prob him too much on it. and here i am, in the office still curious (and kaypo) about it.

impressive huh?

anyways, mr ma and i were at the Chinese sinseh (Siah Ah Cheok at Upper Paya Lebar Road) on Sunday with Boon.

so far, the backache hasn't recurred, let's hang on a few days and see if it's for good.

after having our lunch of chicken rice balls, we went over to Toa Payoh for the annual Philip's Carnival Sale, and got ourselves a hair dryer, steam iron and an electric shaver for him!

caught up with Angie and Zen in Orchard later on.

went by to Cartier to pick up our rings, but apparently my ring still doesn't fit properly, so we re-ordered a smaller size to be collected another 1 - 2 months later. ho hum.

dinner was settled at Crystal Jade, then followed by dessert at Heeren's Dessert Story. 

yummo.

stopped by Tampines interchange, after dropping my bro off, to jalan a bit at the pasar malam then headed home.

Post-trip update

Back.

Got the photos up before i return to work and other crap.

Check them out here.

Our car smells like dried seafood from the trip back.

Picked up my VS stuff from Sel and Shan before we getting the car serviced and washed.

Sel bought me a pair of Mickey & Minnie bride and groom pens from Hong Kong. 

Schweet!

Out of Town

Away from 17 - 19 April 2009

Sungai Tiang, Perak, Malaysia

A brief before our departure..

have been tied up with matters at HDB and CPF.

we're both physically and mentally stretched.

almost had to forgo the road trip to Perak, but we've decided to go ahead with it and take a break for a bit anyway.

so we're heading off early tomorrow at 5 in the morning.

Alex, Leong and their families will be with us (since it's their first drive-trip to KL) and we'll drive in a convoy then part ways before Nilai, where we take a different route and drive further up to Perak.

hopefully we'll return feeling refreshed and recharged for the resolution of the problems.

a word of thanks to Adrian and the girls, especially Mary, for the support and assistance.

love u girls.

*muack*

Random Updates

random almost-forgotten updates...

2009.04.30

mr ma's mom was hospitalized.

paid her a visit before he went off to work.

and we popped by Ikea sometime in between.

2009.05.01

Baby Ning En's full month celebration!

(as shown in picture on the right)

2009.05.04

met mr ma after his course in Brani, 

had a quick bite at Marche's in Vivocity. 

rosti, of course!

2009.05.08

Jocelyn came back for OT,

and we took the chance to lunch at Fusionopolis's Koryo Korean Restaurant. 

yummo.

2009.05.09

went over to Safra Jurong to recce the Joy Garden Restaurant.

brightly-lit, spacious with high ceiling. 

only thing i dislike... the red and gold tablecloth.

(as shown in pictures below)

Now u see me, now u don't..

frequent short disappearances on my part coz i've been working on a new blog for the new-home-and-wedding...

and when i'm just about to blog today,

the postman knocked on my door with my OPI package!

excited.

i shall go sort out the purchases first.

meanwhile, a glimpse of my new bloggie...

http://williamcatherine.blogspot.com/

Trip Summary

a couple of hectic weeks since returning from Guangzhou.

had a couple of meet-ups over my birthday.

mr ma, sweet as ever, delivered a cake. And i also met d gals at Pasta de Waraku at Central, followed by a few drinks (and lotsa gossips & catching up) at Helipad. Ling returned from Korea with Faceshop masks, chocs, lapel pin from Jeju's teddy bear museum for everyone, and my ginseng powder! at $100 for 100g, i must (try to) religiously consume it.

after avenging my disappointed soul with a couple of (expensive) sprees, i've finally managed to upload most of d pix for d trip from our digicams.

whilst those on film are.. er.. still sitting nicely on my table awaiting my lazy bum to proceed for development. oops.

till then, here are d links to d pix...

2009.04.08 - 2009.04.11 Guangzhou

2009.04.12 - 2009.04.14 Macau & Zhuhai

The Proposal

Never expected him to do it,

but he did.

it was a Sunday and long weekend, so it was especially crowded that day with a long queue for the gondola rides.

but he actually booked the entire canal, such that we were the only ones with a gondola. he conspired with the gondolier, who ushered me onto the gondola first. then he was saying "ladies first" but his friend's wife suddenly paused on the steps and took out her camera. i didn't really suspect anything as i thought she merely wanted to take a photo of the lush gondola with nice red padded seats. it was really pretty.

then once i sat down, he propped out the Cartier ring box and went on his knees.

i was totally stunned.

the funny part was that i was too occupied with wiping my tears and picking myself out of the shock, i forgot to accept or reject him.

he mumbled "快一点，很多人在看嘞". LOL.

everyone clapped and whistled. so embarrassing, but it was really memorable and i'm glad he did propose afterall.

Nokia E63

hooray!

i got myself a present...

a brand-new Nokia E63 handset (in red).

i know Miss L. would prefer one in blue though.

i'm gonna explore it after it goes through the mandatory 8-hour charging.

thank cute everyone!

thanks to all who stayed up to express their well-wishes

and, mr ma who specially came by after work with a small cake from The Icing Room

... in PINK!

shall eat it tomorrow instead.

tummy's having cramps now.

=S