Archive for July, 2007

20
Jul

I am blessed…

Friends and family would have known that I’ve been in a deep depression recently, no thanks to an idiot non-suitability in a crucial part of my life. Basically what I’ve been complaining about all this while in my previous posts, so read shall ye J

I wanted so badly to just give up, but on a hindsight all that pain & pressure was never really worth it. I received an SMS from my sister, and although some of you might not think much of it – it actually gave me a whole new hope and something to hang on for.

It read :

If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it.

Happy moments – Praise God. Difficult moments – Seek God.

Quiet moments – Worship God. Painful moments – Trust God.

Every moment – Thank God.

I cant tell you how much that little message inspired me. The next day, I really found the light at the end of the tunnel J

Don’t worry, im still very much alive.

Due to some twist of fate, and by her own actions, I have been (as my colleague puts it) “Put out of my misery”. And so much sooner than I expected too. It’s great to be able to breathe again.

Finally, I can say that im happy to be where I am again. Fingers crossed that the new world I’ve crossed into is as rosy as others depict it to be. But it sure as hell wont be the hell I’ve grown accustomed to J

Hehe. You cannot believe how happy I was when the biatch broke the news to me on Thursday evening. In fact I wanted to celebrate that nite but maybe it was over excitement, maybe it was weeks long of pent up frustration – and I became sick. Nothing major, just a fever and a throat infection but I was still happier than I have been in weeks. And I cannot tell u how good it felt to just forward ALL the incoming work back to the biatch with the words “For your further action”. Muahaha. That must have sooo pissed her off.

I mean, I was nice enough to even offer to help out til Friday. But the biatch was as proud as ever, and said “No, you can switch teams tomorrow. And if anything new comes in, just forward it to me. You don’t have to explain anything to anyone. And yes, it might be a bit difficult to handle it on my own but I’ll just have to put in some extra hours”. Alrighty then. If she still thinks im more bane than boon. It’s her loss, and my gain :D Good luck to her in trying to figure out all those IT lingo, being the dinosaur that she is. Im laughing even now as I heard her say previously “What’s a blog?”. It’s something of which you have been a topic in many times over, bitch.

God is amazing, and miracles do happen. Thank you so much for answering my prayers. You rock the world.

14
Jul

Autobots, roll…

Its a gorgeous Saturday. Spent just the way i intended it to be and stress free. Although i DO have to revert to my boss on a million things including one over the weekend which i think is almost impossible but im sick of caring. If i don’t attempt, i’ll be labelled lazy. And if i do and its all messed up, i’ll be labelled incompetent. Oh wells. Anyways. To heck with work.

As i was saying, this is a gorgeous Saturday and i am so happiee. Me and CS started out early coz we had to go to JB to register for our CMPC course with the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart since we cant attend the one in PJ and the ones in Singapore have been fully booked til the end of the year. Basically if we dont complete this marriage prep course we wont be allowed to marry in the church. And the one we selected was a weekend speedy one instead of the usual 7 weekend one coz we really dont have the time.Anyways, we left S’pore about 10.30am and reached JB at about 12pm coz the causeway was pretty jammed. Then we took a cab over to the church, registered ourselves and paid the registration fee and took another cab back to City Square.

I had booked tickets to watch Transformers (yes, FINALLY i’ve been so bloody tied up i havent watched a movie in ages) at 3pm so we had lunch at Vivo first.The movie was so, so, so good. I agree with Li Yen with the storyline being a bit blah but the special effects were just amazing!!! I also agree with Lyn when Optimus Prime transformed for the 1st time it brought back so many good childhood memories of idiot boxing :) I still remember some of the characters - Prime, Bumblebee, Megatron and StarScream (i remembered watching the cartoon as a kid with my cousin and my sis and we would laugh at the mention of Starscream’s name coz his voice was all screechy like a "scream") I remembered how the good robots (Autobots) had blue eyes and their logo was more boxy whilst the bad robots (Decepticons) had red peepers and their logo had horns, like a devil :D I just loved the whole movie to bits. And looking at the ending, there mite be a sequel. Which im just hoping for ;) My sis loves the movie so much she’s gonna watch it again, this time in 3D. Oooh. 

                  

Anyways, after the movie we did a bit of shopping since i’ve now been attacked with the S’pore mentality of  the “how cheap things are in Malaysia” syndrome. I bought quite a bit of stuff from Watson’s, a pair of shoes, a white beaded dinner handbag for my wedding from Salabianca and some clothes including kiddy ones for CS’ 4 yr old niece, Jodie ) I was so surprised that there was hardly any one in MNG!! Its the further reductions period and there were so many clothes left with hardly any people on a Saturday evening!!! This sight would be extremely alien if you’re used to shopping in KL. Anyways, i tried many items but bought none coz most of the sizes were not right or the ones that were are damaged items. I dont know if its good news or not, but i discovered today that i now fit into a US size 1. I used to be a 2. So the great thing is that the sizes are either too big or too small so there were quite a few 1s.

Then we had dinner at Kim Gary before heading home. Its really convenient living where i live in S’pore coz its both near the Woodlands causeway (there are buses passing thru the area) and its also near the Tuas checkpoint when we hv to drive. Im back home and im exhausted. We were meant to have a few beers downstairs before coming home but i really need to get started on my work. Sigh. Life is sucky isnt it? Li Yen was down in S’pore for the past week but i didnt even get to meet her coz i was stfuck at work the whole time.

But i was happiiieee with today ;) I hope tomorrow’s gonna be good too.

08
Jul

My best friend’s…

It was another hectic weekend but it was very very enjoyable. One of my best friends tied the knot over the weekend on the very auspicious 07/07/07 day and im very happy i was there to share it with her : ))

Saturday morning was Joanne’s church wedding at St. Iggy’s and me and Sharon were her bridesmaids : )) Her sis in law was her maid of honour. We arrived at about 10.30 (i was a little late as usual) and we waited in the bridal car with her until the church bells chimed. And then we made our way in, bridesmaids holding our floral bouquets followed by the bride and her dad. I was also very happy to be her church witness for the marriage. The mass lasted about an hour and then we adjourned to the hall for light lunch.      

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After the mass we made our way to Jo’s place at Putera Heights for the tea ceremony. Her house was packed full of people so we didnt do much save for watch and take a few pics : )) After that i had to rush off to pick CS from his sis’ house (long story, he had to return his car etc) with Sharon in the car. And then we rushed back home again after dropping Sharon off. Cue a lot of rushing and hurried primping : )) I was meant to go earlier for a quick run thru since i was also one of her co-emcees that nite.

Anyways, the day being as auspicious as it was, the Bukit Bintang area was rather jammed even as early as 6.30pm. We parked at Starhill and walked to Ritz Carlton where their dinner was held. When we arrived cocktail was already being served so oops, we werent that early : P

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Made our way into the ballroom where Jo was waiting and checking that all the last min items were okay. We hung out with her inside the ballroom till about 8pm when we were supposed to start so i took the stage together with my co-emcee to announce the arrival of the bride & groom : )) Aww.

The food was quite good actually. I mean one of the better ones i’ve had in a hotel banquet ; ) And we were all happy. Halfway thru me and Sharon assisted Jo with her gown change. Her second gown was a beautiful wine coloured high collared gown. I took the stage once or twice again for the yam seng and other announcements (i dont think i spoke much anyways!!)

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Overall it was a very nice, close knit celebration where everyone was happy and enjoyed themselves. After the guests filtered out a bunch of us stayed behind for a while to snap some pics and drink : )) And then we decided to call it a nite…

                 Congrats to the new Mr & Mrs Lee !!!

Sunday morning me & CS went to check out OUR wedding pics at the studio : )) We spent almost 4 hrs looking thru the pics and selecting the ones we wanted. Overall they were very nice, and it was so damn difficult to pick out the few we were allowed out of 300+ photos!! Our package only provided for 35 shots and it was impossible for us to pick just 35 coz even at the end our outdoor shots amounted to 36 of our pics!! So we added on for more pics. Ouch, the additional damage was a hefty RM1,700!!! But we felt it was worth it, as the saying goes - this is only a once in a lifetime thing. And well, once in a lifetime things do tend to cost a lot. Ouch again!! We should be able to view the touched up pics and album designs within a month and hopefully the soft copies will be ready by then too so i can religiously upload them on my wedding site & friendster : ))

Okies then. Im back in SG now. Super tired and in dire need of sleep…good nite everyone.