Good Morning

It had been awhile that I got flowers from Far East Flora. Went yesterday, got some new items for CNY; will blog about that soon. Here's a bunch of deep purple for this Monday morning.

Just some pictures

4th Jan, Sat. I squeezed some orange juice for sweetie. She wanted to post some pictures on her FB account. I took few pictures of the juices, of her, and of us.  But I didn't allowed her to post the one with me, and she complained on about that on FB :). Here's the picture:

11 Jan, Sunday morning.  Tied up her hair in a slightly different style.  Happy birthday to myself..

11 Jan night, after dinner.  WK took a few pictures of the homely celebration. 

This is the "surprise" that they got for me.

17 Jan, Sat night out with the gals.  We stay out till 12am.. Up to this morning (Mon), I still exhausted

Just the 3 of us

Random thoughts:

糟糕，不知是否人越老越孤僻，昨天生日，过得非常平淡和低调，因此而感到开心！

I set the access to my birthday on FB to only myself; my FB was so peaceful yesterday!

Ok, just for the record, I am not shy or afraid of letting people know my age.

"Set low expectation, and you will be delighted".  

The above 4 points may all be true, but the main contributor to my very happy day yesterday is my sweetie.  She and WK "secretly" bought a cake and gave me a "surprised" celebration.  Haha...  I just play along lor.. pretend I didn't see the empty cake box on the dining chair, pretend I didn't see the cake in the fridge, pretend I didn't know they are setting the cake up when she kept popping into my room to check my progress while I'm bathing....

And also, the pair of shoes she bought for me as my birthday gift.  It cost her $10, from the money she made from selling loom bands and doing housework.  I may have been the one who planted the idea in her to buy something for me and WK's mum from her earnings because we help to sell her products (as appreciation).  But it was she herself who decided to buy me a pair of shoes as birthday gift.  Whenever we go shopping in these past 2 months, especially when we visit TPY HDB Hub, we will pop into shoe shops to take a quite look.  Finally at the beginning of this year, we decide on a pair in the shop just above TPY MRT.  I wore it for the first time on Sat, and a row of purple beads came off.. 

I just got a earful from my boss on eating supplement.  He is 50, but he hardly look so.  He said that I must be those who don't eat much fruits, cos I got freckles.  Sign...  who (which woman) doesn't want to look young and pretty forever.  Who doesn't know the functions and purpose of Vit C, Vit E, acai berry, ginseng extract, etc.... The one and only reason that all people live "lousy" lives is due to: "inertia"..

Pictures will follow shortly.

Happy New Year 2015 !!!!

Must put a lot of exclamation mark, cos I'm quite excited about 2015.  Ready to set my resolution:

1) Change spending habit, reduce monthly expense to $800
Tough goal!  Setting up a big challenge for myself :)  Tonight, I'm meeting my ex-colleague from GF, so don't think I will be able to meet the challenge this month.  But, I have a  year to achieve this, so I'm upbeat about it!

2) Drink enough water every day
Bad habits die hard.  Had been a constant challenge the whole of my life. 

Simple, yet meaningful resolutions :)

Going to be a good year, so looking forward to putting these 2 goals into action!!

 

Waffling

This should be my final post for the year.

2014 has been another extraordinary year.  It was an emotional year, but not the bad kind like 2011.  It started with my 40th birthday, which marks the end of the mid life crisis, bottom of the valley feeling.  Slowly, I picked myself up, and steadily moved forward.  In the 2nd half of the year, I changed job again; took up new responsibilities, made new friends, and made adjustments to my daily routine.  In October, I came to realise the start of the real primary school academic life of Lynn. At the end of it (Oct), we celebrated any joyous year of having Lynn.  And, yesterday morning, I told WK what had been on my mind for the past 2 months.  Not sharing here yet though.

Wishing all my friends a great 2015!

[Christmas eve, Wee San calls it "waffling", meaning eat waffle with me.]

Dec'14 update: Birthday vs Christmas

This year's family christmas gathering is held at May's house, as we did for the past few years.  The one very special aspect of this celebration was that Mavis, the birthday girl, specially requested for birthday gift to be separate from Christmas gift.  The poor gal, whose birthday is 21st Dec, seldom get 2 gifts in a year, like the rest of her cousins.  We joked about it, claiming that her gift is always twice the value of the rest of cousins'.  But eventually, all of us hear her, most probably empathised with her, and got her 2 gifts.

This year I also contributed to making (instead of buying) one food item, which is potato salad.  I had a relatively fun time researching and making enquiry about the ingredients and recipe.  Shopping for the right kind of potato and sour cream was challenging for me.  It turn out well enough!

Here are the pictures:
Lynn wanted to wear her purple dress for the party.  The deer hones were from Diaso

Me and birthday gal, our dear eldest niece/child, who turned 14, which has some significance for the teochews (Wk's mum and Mavis' dad):

I realised that both Chloe and Brayden will automatically pose for the camera with their best smile (well trained :), so here a beautiful picture of Brayden:

The focal point:

May's family, getting ready for the birthday celebration:

Candid pic of Mavis:

".... ,happy birthday to you...."

A picture of my potato salad:

Right now, it is 27th Dec, 745am.   Merry Christmas and happy new year to all..

Dec'14 update: Loom band making and sale

This school holiday, Lynn did a lot of loom band bracelet and pencil topper.  She's not interested in making the bands for leisure, but instead she did them for sale through me and Wk' mum.  I'm not sure if I am telling the right values.  Anyway, the holiday's almost over, and we had already sold close to 30 items.  Here are some pictures:

Started off with 2 kinds of regular bracelet.
(i) Twisted bracelet:

(ii) Straightaway bracelet

Then I bought round beads.  After experimenting mixing the bead into the design myself, Lynn actually picked up the technic and improvised:

(i) twisted bracelet with round beads

(ii) Still twisted bracelet, with heart shape beads

(ii) Fish tail bracelet, with alphabet beads:

Here's the blue, white, black bracelet with blue star bead she did for WK:

She did many pencil toppers, mostly sold to Fengxian, who gave out as Christmas presents to her friends.

There are a few more "name bracelets" which are still work in progress.  I will post the pictures here once ready.