my bdae + proposal 2009!

wow~
another long long post~

standby popcorn~

my bdae started off on sunday with my laopo sms me her well wishes~
the actual day started with my dad sms-ing me birthday wishes too~

worked half day at work..
cos got birthday entitlement half day only.. better than nothing lah~

went vivo to meet dear to head to NSRCC for the chalet..
his car was packed with all the stuff he prepared..
and i got new plushies!

courtesy of yong siong... i have minnie, piglet and a mini stitch!
upon reaching NSRCC.. wanted to suntan.. but realised i was feeding the mosquitoes.. so i gave up..
went back the chalet to help my bf decor the living room while they prepared their surprise for me...

my dear & the guys (yong siong, vincent, linen) had a hard time tying the balloons.. until their fingers blister lah~ just to make the place nice & stitchy for me!
my dear actually printed many many stitch pictures for me!
very nice..
till the photos appear..

well.. then the mood went downhill then..
cos many of my friends/colleagues cannot make it..
whatever excuses, reasons.. i don blame them..
i mean i understand cos monday kinda hard for 9-5 pple..
well.. somehow... it still affected me that they did not come...

at least my bf's frens came to support him lah..
but was alittle upset when his friends started to 'suan' me saying i got no frens.. that my frens 'bo sim'...
made me so TL.. already feel like crying then...
lucky my sis and darling adeline came.. help me sooth the bad feeling away...

yah.. i know my personal frens/colleagues count is pathetic.. can count with 1 finger..
1) JingXian (primary school fren)
2) Carol & Hubby (MIS fren)
3) Haffis & Wife (NP fren)
4) Adeline (AHL fren)
5) May & Hubby (My sis & jie-fu)

my bf list:
1) Nelson
2) Yong Siong
3) Vincent
4) Jacky
5) Weiming
6) Matthew
7) Stephen & Wife
8) Father, Mother, Brother (Linen) & Aunt
9) Alvin

tat is about the pple that game..
but that is not the issue..
main thing is MY DEAR PUT IN A LOT OF EFFORT!
and i really APPRECIATE HIM doing all this..

i mean i known him for so long..
it is not his character to do all this..
the fact that he did all this.. is a BIG step!
and i'm really PROUD OF HIM!

then.. i was waiting till i was so pek chek for the cake that i had to tell my dear to serve it..
then the surprise came...

haha..
stuupid weiming.. distracted me out of the house..
then when i was being lead to the surpise room...
initially i tot my dear would dress up as stitch to surpise me..
haha... i tot is a birthday surprise...

to my BIG SURPRISE...
he actually stood stoned, with flowers and ring in hand..
knelt down and proposed!

i was super stunned...
cos.. he has always been a private person.. never to show affection in front of his friends..
so no matter how pple ard me told me that he will propose on my bade.. i don believe..
cos... it is not my dear's style at all..

so he SURPRISED me!
i was dumdfounded... really loss for words..
(now i know how my sis feels..)
i could only cry and nod my head.. haha..

then.. the 2nd gatecrashing came.. when i had my birthday cake...
they brought champagne!
i was showered & blasted with champagne & cake! haha....
photos all with linen... will load it all when i get them..

now.. everything still feels surreal~
ahha...=)

i need to go dream land..
to replenish energy..
not enuf sleep...

will update more on things i missed out..
haha....

- mahjong
- pressies
- photos & vids..

zzz...

Tiring Sunday....

well.. quite a long post this time..
get ready your drinks before you start reading..
random thoughts will spill....


well.. today on a cosy cooling sunday...
i went out to help my ma on a volunteer activity that she is in-charge of ...
not just me lah.. plus my sis also...
both of us decided to help my ma cos we see her panick till like that.. better help her before her hair all drop... haha...

the elderly home's centre organizer also weird one lah..
2 volunteer in-charge of ...
120 elderly...
going onto 3 buses to vivocity...

can faint lah.. the ratio is CMI!
so.. i hopped on the 3rd bus to help my ma with the coordination..
cos.. i got events experience mah~
haha...

anyway... it was still a crazy one cos.. the registration list.. is another CMI thingy...
imagine lah.. i got 4 "Li" in the list without any chinese name.. all diff house number..
lucky the elderly still rem their house number..

haha...
the main event company was MCYS...
which i don agree their way of doing things lah.. not well co-ordinated..
they should have taken the indoor atrium (which was taken by BRANDS sodoku challenge)
instead of the outdoor auditorium (which the elderly had to bear the heat)

stoooppid lah..
just another event to bully the elderly and just show the society how 'loving' our pple are... -_-'''

then.. becos of this event..
my ma cannot attend my bdae chalet..
haiz...

** happy note**
******************
my bf did ask my ma! =)
******************

then.. my bros won't be coming cos..
1 having ief paper at 9am
1 is serving ns..

so.. only my sis and her hubby coming .. i think..

then.. er...
dunno why.. today feel very restless...
haiz..
sleepy le..
guess i'm getting old...

TOTALLY SURPRISED!

my dear gave me such a huge surprise..
so funny lah.. now i think of it..
he is so so so SO SWEET! =)

we met up as usual after work for dinner...
so he asked for somewhere different for dinner...
so i just followed with him, his ma & his bro..
then found out that it was his fren's one...

then he told me his fren started to do catering..
so he show me the menu and asked me to choose the food i like..

my 1st thought i had was " is this the ROM buffet meal that he is planning?"
so i asked him what is this for... he say is for another friend's catering.. so ask him to recommend.. so he ask me to choose cos i picky...

so... i just follow lah..
but in my mind i was thinking.. "what is my dear planning..."
i even asked his ma if she knows.. but she say she dunno...

then.. as usual i will take my bf's hp to play...
so... as i took his phone.. i saw his message window open...
"..... book chalet.... pls don tell angela yet...."
tat is the only few words i manage to caught...
then my bf jumped!

he said " what did you see?!"
so i told him....

then he told me that i spoiled the surprise that he planned so hard for me...
he actually planned a surprise bdae chalet for me... *so touched*

then... the next thing i found out...
he actually contacted my friends and invited them to the chalet...
i am really very touched... that my dear did so much for me.. =)

how i found out was today during lunch...
as i was telling my colleagues about how i found out about the chalet..

my colleague, Paul, blurted that my dear sms him..
and he showed me the message that my dear sent to him..
haha...

Paul tot i knew.. so he blurted.. but actually.. i still dunno who is invited..
so pls.. don tell me.. let it be a surprise to me k?

hee hee...

then my colleague, susan, throw another idea to me... tat got me even more excited...
1st wedding band
2nd wedding photo trip ***
3rd secret chalet bash
will my dear actually propose to me on that day?

hee... that got me kinda excited..
but.. i don think my dear got the energy to do that leh..
cos... it is really not easy to gather pple to come to the chalet..
cos my bdae is exactly on monday ... which most pple are busy working..
plus.. it is at nsrcc.. not that accessible..

still.. no matter who or what number of people who turn up..
i'm really happy that my dear did this for me... really..
thank you dear! =)

I LOVE YOU JASON LEE! =)
*smiling like an idiot*
*grinning from ear to ear*

somehow.. i'm wishing for some flowers to be sent to my office.. hee..
cos i still need to work half day morning in the office... =p
now i know why pple like flowers delivered to office.. it is the pampered feeling...

ok.. i shall not be greedy....
i shall be contented with what my dear has done for me.. =)

*still smiling like an idiot*
=)



*** sidetrack***
wedding photo trip...
so happy lah!
my dear caught me by surprise again!
we were at rafflescity checking out the taiwan bridal studio that offers wedding album photography...
then before we went, we agreed that it is a session to gather data.
so.. we went in.. got stuck at a table listening to the salesperson telling us.. yada yada yada...

then next table approached us.. but we were too drained & hungry...
so we wanted to brush them off..
then we recognize the brand when we went taipei early this year...

then tat caught the sales person attention..
from there.. as we were the last couple at the exhibit...
so.. the company gave us such a great deal that we just couldn't deny!

but what was even more shocking was my dear agreed there & then..
which really touched me..
that goes to show how serious he is about this...
although we jumbled a few steps on the flow... (wedding band, album, haven propose)

i really happy~
i am so lucky to have him! =)

SMUARKZ!
I LOVE JASON LEE~

*smiling like an idiot once again*
*GRINZ*

what do i want for my birthday....

my dear has been asking me..
what do i want for my birthday...

i mean i need a new wallet... but i'm very fussy abt one..
so it cannot be a gift...

what else do i want...

i want something that cannot be bought with money..
but only achieved with heart...

#1:
To be acknowledged as attached... and not just someone in the list...

#2:
i want my family and my dear to get to know each other better..
i want them to know what i'm going through.. and not stretch me between them..
i just want a simple.. happy life..

#3:
i do not ask for riches or branded stuff.. i don need them..
i just need true friends, and understanding from my family and loved ones..

what do i want to do?
i also dunno..
go...
ski 360?
suntan?
sentosa?
JB?
running?
cycling?
fly kite?
picnic?
movies?
nice dinner?

i dunno...
i REALLY DUNNO...

1st Birthday Celebration~~

Hee...

today is a fun day!

i went out for a girls' outing with nini~~

hee hee... =)

went out with nini~

we went to Goodwood Park for a wonderful English High Tea~

yummy~~

shiok... =)

photos are here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lala_duckie/sets/72157621921577487/

i got a nice pressie from nini~
a nice bag~




just nice for me to change.. =)

we did our usual gal shopping at our usual hunts and i got a nice pair of RED heels~
hehe... =)

then we went for a simple meal at mcdonald's before she headed home and i headed to meet my bf for round 2...

stupid rafflescity.. no parking..
so went to meet his friends for chit chat and supper..
then headed home...

Carebears... SHINE! =)

happy happy HAPPY! =)

i know this is very confusing..
one day i'm deep in the depths of hell..

right now.. i leaping through clouds of joy in heaven!
though he has not formally proposed...

but.. we have bought our wedding bands!
the set that we had been eyeing for! =)
=)

from GoldHeart! =)

my hp camera ain't that fantastic to capture the image sharply..
but i'm still grinning from ear to ear! =)




and so.. the full wedding package comes with all these! =)

smile =)

someone..

someone..

had promised me alot of things..
but... never completed them...

someone..

raised me so high up into cloud 9 in the morning..
but thrashed me the depths of hell in the evening..

someone..

i'm so pathetically in love in...
tat i lost myself ...

someone..

why can't you think in my shoes...
just for once...

someone..

who just killed me..
a stab through my heart...

someone..

has just made someone dead..
coldly, saddened, dissapointed..

i dread public holidays..

most 9 - 5 working class would love public holidays...
to me.. i'm really starting to dread it..

torn between family & love commitments...

why other pple can manage love & family so well.. yet i seem to be making a mess out of it..
why other families can accept love so easily.. yet mine seems to not fall into this category..

i cannot blame anybody...
but myself..

i cannot choose my family..
i cannot control my heart..
i canot even use my brain..

can i skip my birthday...

it is tat time of the year again..
somehow or rather...

i really dread my birthdays...

i mean i love to celebrate pple's birthdays.. tat i don really like to do for myself..

let me just recall of the significant birthdays that i remember...

when i was 6/7, my parents threw a McDonald's bday party for me and i got my 1st birthday carebear...

when i was in primary school, birthdays were still fun with close frens celebrating for me

when i was in secondary school, birthdays were a mad-house cos of all the class buddies..

when i was in poly... birthdays were focused to my close gf...

when i was in uni... birthdays were left to bf and gf to celebrate for me.. somehow.. my social circle just super-high-speed shrunk.

now that i started working... birthdays were either forgotten or brushed over..

only last year.. becos of the great pple i had at advanced... i had the best birthday party in years...

for the 1st time in my life.. i actually celebrated my birthday so many times... when my dear was overseas...

for this year.. somehow the stigma comes back...
maybe i had too much of a high profile bdae last year... that now it's tat time of the year...
i think i fear falling back to ground zero..

to me.. birthdays has never been about presents.. it is about making the effort or thought to remember and meet up for meals.

yet.. somehow for some reason.. which i don even know.. i fear meeting pple up...

i know i have a few friends who has been with me through my years...
JingXian - who never fail to forget my bdae every year
Jenny - who always make an effort to celebrate with me
Angie- who is always there for me

recent additions ...
Adeline Tan - who brought so much laughter into my life
Fang Fang & JingMin - who made me realise that there is so much more in life

pple ask me.. what do i want for my bdae...
my honest answer...
i dunno..

i mean.. i like stitch and carebears... but i really have ENOUGH soft toys..
i like clothes and shoes.. but i prefer to these myself...
i need a new wallet.. but i'm fussy about wallet's specifications..
somehow.. i don like vouchers.. cos.. i'll be like forced to spend when i don need to..

so what do i need...
maybe i'm just a foodie..
maybe i'm just need someone to know me well enough...
maybe i just wan to disappear...

why am i so emo these days..

i dunno..
really just feel like disappearing..

houses.... so ex...

looking ard for houses...

sg houses.. so ex.. yet no new houses being build..
haiz...

if can.. i would love to stay in china and travel ard..
but buy house in china also not easy...

haiz...

if only i have doraemon...

late night thoughts

suddenly... I seem to lose faith in marriage...

wat's the deal with signin the deal when it can be retracted?

Wat's the deal when u cannot know wat your partner is thinkin though he/she is right beside you?

Watch the movie UP.

Great life lessons....

lessons from UP!

after watching the movie "UP"...

i managed to draw many life lessons from the movie..
maybe it's just my own imagination...
but i like the lessons...

#1: don forget your childhood dreams
#2: enjoy the little moments with your loved ones
#3: though distracted along the journey... don forget what it is all for..
#4: don wait till you're old before embarking on your adventure
#5: no matter what challenges/obstacles ahead, be focused just like Carl Frederickson
#6: be naive like Russel
#7: be loyal like Doug
#8: protect your loved ones from evil
#9: don go against nature's development
#10: cherish what you have and don regret later

Sis ROM + Food Tasting!

er...

i kinda become dumb on using flickr...
dunno how to link here...

so .. i just paste the link lah..
been trying to do it for the past half hr...

give up...

here's the link..

Food Tasting:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lala_duckie/sets/72157621921866278

Sis' ROM Ceremony
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lala_duckie/sets/72157621797347257




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