Today is a super busy day... We painted 2 walls in my room and fixed up my daybed and wardrobe. I wanted a sandy colour but I will need the walls to blend with the white ceiling cos I don't intend to paint it. I finally decided on Nippon Easy Wash Plus in Linen. Kuku catalogue was misleading, it looks like beige on the catalogue but turned out to be white. -_-

I wanted to finish painting all 4 walls by today but it was already 6plus by the time we finished the 2 walls. Will have to leave the remaining 2 walls for next week. The chest of drawers is not fixed up cos it is already 10plus by the time we finished fixing the wardrobe. Both of our hands are red and sore. I still have to wash the paint brushes and rollers. Can't imagine I will have to wash them again next week. *Sigh*

Well, I guess I better grab some sleep. Have been sleeping late recently and I don't think it is doing my wound any good.

Today is laogong's 27th birthday.



With lots of love -- Icemaiden

We reached CGH at 8am on the dot, waited for registration until 8.30am. Changed into the surgical gown and proceeded to the surgical area. Watched Amazing Race while lying on the mobile bed, waiting for my turn to enter the surgical theatre. When I was being wheeled into the surgical theatre, I was frightened for a moment, just for a moment. In my mind I was thinking, "Well, here goes. I wonder what is awaiting for me". I've always watched tv where they show the ceiling through the camera lens while someone is being wheeled into the operating theatre, oh gosh, now I'm really watching the ceiling through my own eyes.

The operating theatre was very bright. The nurses kept asking me the same questions over and over again. What is your name, your NRIC, when did you have your last meal and drink, did u eat or drink anything this morning, what surgery are you here for today? I kept repeating until I was feeling irritated already.

The doctor in charge of aesthetics begin to poke this super huge needle into my hand and told me that she will be injecting the aesthetics into me. Then a nurse gave me the oxygen mask to breathe. Suddenly I felt a numbing pain rushing through my arm, next thing I know, I woke up with a pain in my chest. It felt like they had scooped something out of me. Hmmm... that was fast. I didn't even know how I concussed. I wasn't expecting to be knocked out completely. But somehow I knew that the surgery was over. I looked at the clock, it was 11plus.

I drifted in and out of sleep, there were lots of hospital staffs walking around me. They couldn't get a hospital bed yet, so I was lying on the mobile bed in the waiting area. I was beginning to feel restless, then they shifted me to a area with less people and dimmer lights. That was when I noticed a bruise on my arm, must be the blood pressure monitor. They attached the blood pressure monitor and the pulse monitor on the same arm, so when the blood pressure monitor was at work, the pulse monitor would loose signal of the pulse and starts an alarm. They allowed laogong to visit me, and I kept joking to him that I was dead each time the the alarm went off. The hospital staff don't even bother to check on me when the alarm rang, I wonder what is the purpose of all those monitors then.

At about 1plus, they managed to get me a bed. I got the whole room to myself. Hee... Brunch was served at 2plus, bread with butter and very diluted milo. But I gobbled up what would be garbage to me on regular days cos I was SUPER hungry! Checked out of the hospital at 3plus, then we proceeded to grab lunch at Eastpoint. I ate super a lot of stuff, a bowl of mushroom and fish ban mian and tau suan for desert. I can still managed to eat dinner at 8plus, but I didn't finish my bowl of fishball noodles cos it was too darn oily. (pls don't eat the fishball noodles from Kopitiam at Whitesands ya.) I wonder where did my appetite come from.

I was given 1 week of hospitalization leave, in my heart, I secretly did a double flip. Now I can skip the career exhibition on Sunday! Hehehe... Okiez, the experience was something totally new and though I'm the kind who loves to explore new things, you can count me out on such experience again. Once is enough u heard me up there?

PS: Thanks for accompanying me laogong. You're the best. Muackz!

Countdown to Monday: 1 Day

We went to IKEA first thing in the morning to get the furniture. I bought my daybed, 2 wardrobes (1 for my brother) and a chest of drawers. Spent $563 including delivery, there goes my bonus. They will be delivering the furniture next Saturday. I can't wait to use my new furniture. I am so excited! And it only occurred to me at the end of the day that I won't be able to use my new furniture if I never wake up after tomorrow. Haha...

Next, we started our hunt for dwarf hamsters. We went to Suntec first, the hamsters are so expensive! A winter white for $38 and a yellow pudding for $68. I was looking at a budget below $50, so we went to Pet Safari @ Vivocity. We bought a winter white for only $10 and a pearl white for $18. We named them Nibbles and Xiaobai respectively.

How we derived with their names:
Nibbles kept nibbling our hands. As for Xiaobai, you can see for yourself. XD

Our babies were packed separately because they were taken from different cages and may fight with each other. On our way home, a bunch of girls on the bus were discussing and guessing what we have inside the carrier boxes. One of them guessed we bought rabbits. -_- Who in the right frame of mind would think we can squeeze a bunny into such a small box?




The small animal carrier boxes.


Nibbles in the small carrier box.


Our babies in their temporary food bowl.


Our babies trying to climb up my hand. So cute! I can feel their paws desperately trying to cling onto my hand.


Our babies on the wheel.


Our babies cuddling up together. So sweet!




Our babies sleeping in two separate corners. Well, I guess they need some more time to get closer to each other.

Laogong, thanks for buying the hamsters for me. I love them a lot a lot. Muackz!

He is out with his best buddies today, Val decided to be a pilot again. So here I am, typing away at my laptop, doing my weekly facial mask. Stayed in office till 8pm today, was waiting for Val. Didn't know she is going to be pilot today, suspected but still I waited... Wasn't doing any work at all, just sitting there and talking to Mabel. She advised me to seek a 2nd opinion and also shared with me her experience in removing her cysts from below when she was my age. She was telling me that she was in great pain and all... Sounds pretty scary but still I decided to go ahead with Monday's surgery. I am a brave girl remember? Yes, I am a brave girl. *zi qi qi ren-ing*

Tomorrow's activities are already laid out. First stop to Ikea to get my daybed, wardrobe and chest of drawers plus my brother's wardrobe. Next stop maybe get the baby dwarf hamsters if available, followed by going to dhoby ghaut for some complimentary spa session and maybe dinner and back home? The pig will definitely be tired tomorrow cos he didn't get to nap today, will be sleeping late tonight and he has to wake up early tomorrow. So... Also cannot plan too many activities.

He will be having breakfast gathering with his relatives on Sunday, so I have time to do some *er-hem* shopping. Okay, I am going to dig for my hamster cage now. Will post pictures of my babies if I managed to get them tomorrow.

Plenty of happenings today... I was happiest at my job and also the most upset in my relationship. My bosses praised me for my work performance and I had my first cold war with him.

Today's meeting was one surprise, I was quite sure that my big boss will shoot me again as she did in every meeting. But she praised me today instead. Hmmm... Even my boss also said that she is very pleased with my performance. It was a very motivating moment for me, I was happy and at the same time I worry that my colleagues will feel threatened and jealous. Sent 13 resumes yesterday and big boss dropped me an email saying that she is very impressed with the no. of resumes I sent out. I only came across this email after our meeting, so I was kinda in a slacking mood till about 3plus. Plus I was having a little cramp and all... only started sourcing for candidates when I only have a couple hours left.

Just when the clock strikes six, one of my clients called to arrange for one of my candidates to start work. I was so happy and I get about doing the arrangement. Ding dong between my candidate and the client for about half an hour to 45 mins then the candidate tells me that she is giving this opportunity a miss. Damn kuku lor, waste my time, effort and saliva. Most importantly I have been keeping him waiting all these while. After hanging up the last call I had to send my reports and everything, by the time I reached our usual spot he had already waited for almost an hour and was fuming mad.

I apologized and tried to explain to him but he gave me a nonchalant expression and stood a distance away. I was feeling hurt, confused, upset and even for a moment, angry. And he stood further and further away from me until we reached our destination, he just walked out without even looking at me or telling me. I was so so so upset, I was talking to Val and telling her that I feel like crying, but I will be strong, I have been acting tough and I can do it but tears were welling in my eyes and I forgot to replenish my tissue supply...

Didn't really talk to him much after that cos I was still feeling upset and also thinking of all the things I wanted to tell him as well as telling myself that I don't have a right to get angry cos it was my fault in the first place for making him wait. I would also be pissed if I have to wait for someone for almost an hour and this is not the first time I made him wait for me to knock off. We don't have the mood to eat so we went to get a drink and after some silence he walked off the f**king 2nd time. I was like WTF, how many times you want to walk out on me in a day?

I was contemplating to take a cab home but ya, I'm still into the boycott cab campaign. I was thinking of other alternatives to get home but was lazy to walk so I decided to head for the interchange hoping that he wouldn't catch me. But he was standing there waiting so I couldn't pretend to miss him and it would not be nice to do so either. So I told him that I want to go home and he just grabbed me. At that point of contact I already melted by substantially and so we managed to make up from there. If he hadn't grabbed me, I would have left already and I would super hate him for walking out on me and not holding me back. Then I would have ignored him from then on. And I was thinking, is our relationship really so weak that we can't even pass a hurdle?

I'm so glad that I didn't choose to ignore him today cos I really care about this relationship and I'm glad that things worked out for now. I think it's either I really love him super a lot or I am more matured now and handle situations in a more rational way. As I was saying, he is so pampered that I think all my other exs will be super jealous.

Time check, 11.30pm. Time for bed. Super tired after such a "happening" day.

Laogong accompanied me to the follow-up at CGH today. The needle test result shows that there are some abnormal cells from the extract of the lump, "The cell could have gone out of shape during the procedure of the needle extraction, so we recommend you to do a surgery to remove the lump for further test." the doctor advised. So the day surgery was fixed on next Monday and the fee of $593.50 will be fully deductible from my medisave account as advised by the staff nurse. I hope that there is no minimum amount required to be kept in the medisave account, otherwise I will have to fork out the amount in cash *coughs*

After the follow-up, we went to IKEA to look at the Daybed and Wardrobe I was eyeing. I was so tempted to buy the two and a chest of drawer in white foil finish on the spot! But I have to figure out how to get rid of my current bed and wardrobe first and I have totally no idea how to get about doing it. By the way, I was deciding between the drawer and this wardrobe. Which one would you recommend?

Next stop was the Adidas warehouse sale at Wing Tai Industrial Centre. This sale is a flop, typical Singaporeans have already raided the place upside down -- the clothes were all heaped in a mess in the wagons. There are very limited designs and sizes, I was very keen in a pair of sports shoes selling at $59 only and they only have it in size 7 1/2 and 8. That was such a letdown.

Had KFC for dinner, think I will be the one turning into fat shit first cos he eats his chicken without the skin and me on the other hand, picks the discarded skin off his plate and finish it off together with the one in my plate. -_- How could any sane human being not eat the crispy chicken skin?! Ok Val, it's time for us to register for the kickboxing class ya.

Me: "I'm going to take up kickboxing so that I can punch and kick you."
Laogong: =(
Me: Hehehe!!! XD

You know I'm just joking laogong...

This is my favourite Queen song. Fall in love with it since I first came across this music video. Take a peek and share my love. =)




Bohemian Rhapsody Lyrics

Pardon my not very long absence, I have been feeling lazy lately. Hehe... Plus, spent the weekend with my dearest laogong. We caught AVP2 on the big screen on Friday, then we happened to walk past Moshi Moshi at Millenia Walk and chanced upon a few pairs of couple rings. It was late and the shops were already closed, so we didn't get to try out the rings. We have already had the intention to get a pair and we visited Couple Lab at Plaza Singapura, but the design which we are interested in does not carry his size and the other designs are not captivating at all.

He came over to my place on Saturday and we were starting out on designing our own couple tee. We're still not done with it though, so no pictures posted yet. He really has a flair for drawing, whereas my art is like shit. Yes darling, no doubt that you can't make much of a living with a flair of the arts, however it is still a valuable asset. Like I mention, you can make many valuable cards and gifts with this asset. I've always wanted to have this flair but I just don't have any creative juices alright? So feel fortunate already!

We went back to Millenia Walk to get our couple rings today, but they don't carry his size in the design we want again! They have it over at Wisma though, so we headed there after shopping a bit around Marina Square and Suntec. We finally bought our couple ring and we managed to grab the last piece of our sizes! Though the rings were on display and there were a few minor scratches but we really wanted a pair, so we went ahead and bought it at $1oo+ including engraving. Kuku one, still need to pay $1.10 per alphanumeric character cos only the first 4 characters are free. -_- We engraved AARON ♥ MEL 11.9.07 and MEL ♥ AARON 11.9.07 respectively. Hee... I know it sounds cliche, but I love it somehow!







The photos are not very clear, cos we took them using the camera phone. Wait till we capture these on his digicam and I will upload again.

So I'm late for work again today. -_-
Well, at least I got my ass to work. :D
Hey, there's still tomorrow right? >_<
By now you should have somehow realized that I'm a "tomorrow" person. Hee... XD

Okie, so as we were speculating, one of my colleagues who came back from holiday yesterday, took mc today. Let's see if she will take another day off tomorrow. She's so... predictable.

Boss is going to handover 2 of her accounts to me, namely HSBC Ltd and DBS. But she's only doing the handover for the positions that her clients are bugging her for. Smart move huh? So now the clients will come and bug me instead. She's very funny when she told me, "HSBC Ltd hor, not HSBC PB/ Trustee. I'm keeping these 2." Then I was like "Okay." -_-

Anyway it's only good in a way. Bigger portfolios = more work to be done. Imagine I'm already leaving office at 7.30pm everyday. When my portfolio increases, I will be staying up till 8plus or even 9pm?

Sooo... Had dinner with laogong, gosh I miss him so much! Just meeting for a short while doesn't make it any better. I wanna bear hug him so much. >_<

Mum is nagging nagging nagging... Asking me to do housework and comparing me with my cousin. *Sigh*... If you like her so much, go ahead and acknowledge her as your daughter. Stop bothering me! I wanna move out, I wanna move out, I wanna move out!

New year resolution #2:
thou shall not be late -- broken on the 2nd day of the new year. How cool is that? I felt so guilty when I was sending out message to inform boss that I'll be late. Always late, never once early except during my first couple of weeks. Oh well, let me try again tomorrow ya.

Task for today is to re-heat dinner. Curry and rice, both got chao ta. -_- I secretly added water to the curry when mum wasn't looking. She thought that only the rice was burnt. Haha! I realized that everything that I cook in the kitchen will be burnt. Okiez, so I should refrain from stepping into the kitchen at all. Dear, you heard me ya. XD

Got shot by Dar's parents liao, they were indirectly hinting that he is not spending enough time with them and his mum also complained that I wake up late. -_- Like duh, people's sleeping habit you also want to complain? It has nothing to do with you and it doesn't affect you in anyway either. *Sighs* So I guess better stop meeting him so frequently and definitely no more staying over, don't want to leave a bad impression. It is much much much more comfortable to sleep in my own home, knowing that no one gives a shit to the fact that I wake up late and skipped breakfast. Anyway, I also don't have to cook up any more excuses to tell Mum that I'll be spending the night outside.

PS: No offense Dear, just felt that I need to write this down to vent my little teeny bit of unhappiness.