Well, first of all I know that I have not written in ages and many of my friends are asking me why. Well, writing does require input and I have to have input in order to write.
Oh oh! Did I remember to say that my godson is finally born on 12/11/2008? His name is Tristan Evans Giri and I am so proud of Julie (his mummy). He is a healthy little boy who looks very much like... ok let's just put it this way. he is a handsome boy and according to his proud daddy, he has since grown 5 cm taller. Well done Jules! Way to go!
Then comes the holis. I hate writing about work and there is absolutely nothing to write about it except that I was pretty pissed in the beginning of the holis, having being posted last minute to do another report writing and getting minimal help from a partner. Well, at least my boss apologised but some people can be so tactless! My big bos actually kept his promise to me so I pray that the next year will be a better year.
So far for the holis, I have gone to many sales. I am a sucker for sales. Ask me where the latest is and I can rattle them off hand. I went to the private sale at Robinsons with Sophia, thanks to my friend Albert and I did not buy anything at all! However, I did manage to get Sophia to purchase 2 ck tops and burnt a hole in her pocket. Before she managed to do so at Robinsons, I also burnt my pocket buying a dress at Miso in Centrepoint for my D & D. It was kind of nice. Aquamarine blue that fades to green with frills at the side. Kind of like a Flamenco dress. Pathma kept asking me if I were going to perform the Flamenco.
The second week of holis, I was asked to go back for a series of meeting for the first two days then proceeded to laze for the rest of the week. I also went to Vivo City with Mrs Lau and we had a great dinner and bought cheap garment bags at Daiso. I spent a day with Julie and Tristan. Julie was supposed to take a night off to ghave dinner with me but she had a fever so she could not make it. I went to her home instead. Whenever I visit, Tristan seems to be on his worst behaviour but he is after all, a new born. How can I bear to get angry with a baby? I wanted to buy my phone from Singtel also. I have been living on borrowed phone for the past few months. Mine died as I mentioned before. I settled for the G 900 finally but when I had the money to buy the phone, it was out of stock island wide. So I was very displeased with Singtel for not wanting to give me a voucher where I can offset the price by $50 at any exclusive dealers. Long story. I took over the phone from Joyce and she took my plan to buy a $0 phone. I also went swimming twice that week. Oh yeah, I went to Queensway with Jan and Kelvin because Kelivin needed a pair of shoes. everything was expensive and we managed to bargain the price down to I forgot how much. It was very enjoyable. I did not buy any tennis skirts. My pals will know why. Snyway, we headed to Balestier for porridge buffet but there was a long queue. We then went to a hotel near Joo Seng Road for a similar buffet but they were closed for the night. We finally settle on Old Airport Road Food Centre. Great stuff!
For the third week of holidays, I met up with Qili to discuss her plans for me as an emcee on her wedding day. I was very happy that she asked me to help out and then proceeded to work out the script with Jac so that we could give her our best. We also wanted to give her a secret toast. Many Chinese weddings do not have toast. We wanted to give her a memorable toast so we started interviewing her and she was very shy about it. Then, as I had said, I am a sucker for sale so Jac and Qili accompanied me to Taka where there was an additional 10% discount for Taka members and I bought so many stuff. I went on to Kinokuniya and Borders and Qili and Jac left for their next appointment. I lugged all my purchases and headed to Plaza Sing where I thought I could buy more stuff form Marks and Spencer. I really have to take my hat off to myself. I was there with all that heavy stuff for at least an hour. The stuffs were so heavy Roy had to come to the MRT to help me to cart them home. I did shopping like these for another 2 days before spending a relaxing Thursday with Julie and Tristan again. This time, we also did our annual ritual of wrapping the presents together.Oops! I forgot to mention that I went to Annie's house on Wed after such a long time and had fun with so many babies. All of them were so cute and also, I got to meet my many of my ex colleagues. I learnt so much from them and I have decided that I shall take Tristan and Julie along for our next meeting. I also ordered a baby toothpaste for Tristan. Kiasu right? hehehehe.
I don't know why on Wednesday, I suddenly started looking for a passport. I looked high and low for 2 hours but to no avail. I decided to leave it for the next day. I received an sms from Jan on Thursday that we are going to Melaka on Friday. I knew it. Everytime I loses my passport we would be going somewhere. Anyway, I found it. I was in a place where I looked at least a dozen times before a day before. Julie gave me some money to buy diapers if I have the chance and my mum gave me some money as well. I did not have a chance to change any ringgit.
On Friday, I was pleased to know that our whole gang was going. At the customs, Jan, the cartoon one, mistook the word 'men' as 'bear'. Even the custom officer could not help but laugh along. Well, we bought many packets of tau sar piah in Melaka and were heading for JB when we got ourselves into this.
We thought we had struck a rock but... hmm... the tyre burst! We were lucky to be alive. We did not have a spare. a Malaysian car pulled over and offered to help to no avail. Then an Singaporean MPV pulled over and the driver was even kinder than the first. He spoke fluent English and Malay and he was so kind to help us call the expressway toll but to no avail. They would not toll a car with a burst tire and a private toll truck pulled over to offer to toll the truck to Yong Peng for $150 ringgit with toll. We thought we were sure going to get extorted at Yong Peng but with another $150 ringgit, we managed to get 2 tyres changed. God sent us many kind souls to help us that day. Thanks be to God. Anyway, we got a nice makeover at a cheap, cheap rate. I got a wash and blow at $16v ringgit and a pedicure and an express manicure at $35 ringgit. Luckily I did not blow all my money on another kebaya that day if not I think we would have been stranded in Malaysia... Anyway I stole these photos from jan's blog.
On Sat, I went to Qili's place to do the last touch up fr the script and dinner plans and I went to Metro sale again... Told you I was a sucker for sale and bought more stuff. I also went out for dinner with Teck and all. It was very nice with a charcoal bbq but was very far. It was all the way in Sunset way.
Sunday is Qili's big day. I was very happy for her. My mum and aunt specially went to compass point to get me some flowers for my hairdo and my aunt also offered to drive me to the salon. We could not find Qili's house so we settled for 1 at Sin Ming. They did great for a small amount and I proceeded to help Qili at her room. Her mother was very happy to see me and so was I. She is just like Qili, a very gentle lady but surprisingly could tahan my nonsense, like her daughter. I also had great fun with all the babies and friends and I told Boon Poh that since she was doing so well, I might as well invite her for my bogus wedding next year. lol
Very eventful week.
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