Caterer changed their mind!

Our cheap caterer changed their mind! Over the phone, they were intially agreeable send the total order of 50pax in 2 batches, food for 30 at 1pm and food for 20 at 6pm. But later in the evening, hubby got a call from them and said minimum order per delivery is 50pax! That wasn't our initial agreement...

Now we're booking another one...more expensive but also more dishes, a nine course meal. And they are agreeable to waive off one of the delivery charges so we just need to pay for delivery once. Never tried this before but hopefully the food turns out good!

Housewarmings...

Have begun our series of housewarming...

Last friday Hubby's friends came over, they were the first batch! We had a fun time of potluck and the guys went crazy over the Wii brought by one of Hubby's friend. We made our lemongrass drink and most of the friends liked it...haha...

Then on sunday, we had round 2: we invited our ex church friends over and ordered in pizza while I cooked a pot of pineapple fried rice which I think didn't really turn out so well. All of us were entertained by the TV shows till 11pm that night! We cleaned up till pass midnight and went to bed past 1am....feeling so tired the next day!

We have 1 more round coming sunday...lunch will be for Hubby's relatives and dinner will be for mine...the mom's side. We'll be catering this time round so hopefully we won't have too much of cleaning up to do after that!!

But after searching for so many caterers, we finally found a cheap one! It's $6/pax for 5 dishes, and comes with complimentary drinks. Delivery is free too!! Which is good cos we don't really need to have a full spread of 9 or 10 dishes. Being the first time trying out this caterer tho' I think I heard about them before, we chose all the chef's recommendations...some dishes which are a little different from the usual spread:

1. Fried Bee Hoon (am looking forward to see how special this one is!)
2. Pork with Plum Sauce
3. Prawn Sauce Chicken
4. Fried Black Pepper Sliced Fish
5. Curry Vegetables

Anyway, looking forward to see how the food turns out!

I've yet to organize a housewarming party for my own friends...probably will take a break first lah...too many in a row is so tiring! Must recuperat first...haha...

New Name

My Blog has a new name....in view of the recent major life changing event on 5th May :)

Photos.....finally

Yes yes...I've been very slack in my wedding photos...also cos my BS is just so far from where I stay that we simply have no motivation to pass them the selected photos for developing!

But for starters, here's a set taken by our personal friend who also took photos that night. Only the holy matrimonial and the dinner one tho...dun have the table to table ones....that'll have to wait for my BS to give me :)

Enjoy!

http://www.flickr.com/gp/7343077@N05/t7qj5D

Birthday Tree

A friend sent this to me...

My birthday tree is the Maple Tree. Supposedly, I'm have the following characteristics:

- Independence of mind (quite, I think....hubby calls it "stubborn"...haha...)
- no ordinary person (yup, I'm special to my loved ones!)
- full of imagination (haha...very true! I like to daydream!) and originality (hmm...dunno about this one)
- shy and reserved (used to be...but somewhat changed as I grew older)
- ambitious (only when it comes to certain things)
- proud (yah...tink i'm quite...don't apologize easily when I'm wrong)
- self-confident (quite also I think...hehe...)
- hungers for new experiences (this is just euphemism for me being easily bored)
- sometimes nervous (hmm...don't we all get nervous sometimes?)
- has many complexities (I'm no simple gal...watch out!)
- good memory (I do have a pretty good memory...hehe)
- learns easily (hmm...only applies to things that do not require hand, leg and visual judgement coordinater eg driving, cycling)
- complicated love life (nay...my love life is very simple: hubby was my first and only boyfriend)
- wants to impress (come on lah...don't we all wanna impress others?)


Hubby's birthday tree is the Hornbeam Tree. Supposedly, he has the following characteristics:

- Good Taste (I fully agree!!)
- of cool beauty (err...what's "cool beauty"?)
- cares for its looks and condition (fully agree!!)
- is not egoistic (now...I don't believe there's any guys in the world that's not ego lor...)
- makes life as comfortable as possible (Hubby sure knows how to enjoy life!)
- leads a reasonable and disciplined life (Well, Hubby's is very organized person...come to think of it, yah lah...he's quite disciplined)
- looks for kindness and acknowledgement in an emotional partner (that's quite true too...but everyone also hope that their partner is kind to them and acknowledge them mah...)
- dreams of unusual lovers (this one I won't know...)
- is seldom happy with it's feelings (not true lah)
- mistrusts most people (hmm...let's just say that it's not that easy to gain his trust)
- is never sure of it's decisions (haha...this one quite true...something which sometimes irks me...hehe)
- very conscientions ("very" is an understatement...he's super conscientious!)


I usually don't believe in any of these birthday tree, birthday stone, birthday flower thingy...dats why after typing the above 2 paras, I decide to do a little experiment. I continued to read up on all the other birthday trees...and realised that most of the trees describe me quite well also lah...Chey!!

It's just something that people came up with to make people feel special and belonged, I suppose...perhaps in our day and age where everything is moving so quickly and people are losing face to face rapidly as the use to internet is growing rapidly too, more and more people are feeling lonely and not understood. Therefore little "tests" like these serves as sources of comfort to know that there are still people who knows what they are like. For a brief moment, I also felt good to find out that I was an "maple tree". It's hard to describe, but it's that brief moment of joy and happiness I felt when I realised that I belong to group of people who are like me...my fellow "maple trees".

But the nature of such things are such...it makes one feel good for that brief moment, but it doesn't last. A week later, if I hadn't written this blog, would I still remember that my birthday tree is the maple tree? Even if I do, would I remember what the characteristics are? Probably not...so what if for a moment I felt that I belonged to a community of "maple trees"? It doesn't last...even if I never forget the "maple tree", would it still hold as much significance to me after a week, a month, a year? I doubt.

Makes me wonder if society has gotten to a point where even these little boosters in life are enough to make people feel happier than they usually are. What in this world can they depend on to give them lasting joy and assurance? Have they found the ultimate source?

Once again, for a moment in time, God opened my eyes to see that His words are very true: "Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away" (Matt 24:35, Mark 13:31, Luke 21:33) Perhaps the things we are busy chasing after is meaningless, just like what King Solomon had written in the Ecclesiastes. Perhaps we think we are satisfied with instant gratifications, but are we really? In the midst of all the busyness, don't we realise that we are actually very hungry and thirsty for something that can satisfy us once and for all? Don't all of us seek something that is more lasting and eternal? Or perhaps we have been too busy to even stop and think about it?

For those who are reading this and have yet to know Jesus, I would like to share with you that in the midst of all the chaos that the world is in now, Jesus is the only one thing that has never changed from the beginning of age till now. If you're looking for something that last, someone who will never let you down, who promise to love you just the way you are, whose love for you will never change no matter what happens, who loves you enough that He suffered the torture on the cross so that you would be saved and loved (even before you were born), who promises to be with you for eternity (who promises you eternity!)...why not turn to Jesus? He is opening His door to you today!

I have experienced this many times in my life, God has never failed me, and only He was able to comfort me and give me peace when no one and nothing else could. But no amount of words from me will be able to describe what it's like if you decide to have Jesus be the Lord of your life, it's something you gotta experience yourself.

The invitation has been made, the door has been open for you...now Jesus is standing at the door of your heart, waiting for you to open your door. Are you willing to let him in?

(If you wanna give Jesus a chance to enter your life, look for any christian friends to help you take the step! If there's no one you can turn to, please feel free to email me. God bless!)

Rantings...

Lately I've been feeling stressed very easily. Not sure if there's something wrong with me or there's really just too many things. I don't really feel very in control of my life these days, but rather my life is now being controlled by a series of recurring events and to-dos.

My mind is just constantly busy with what I need to do, who I need to visit, what has not been done yet...but these days I'm so tired that I just wanted to run away from it all and hide under my blanket. Which is what I did on saturday. I refused to get out of bed though my brain keeps yelling to me:"Get up and hang your clothes!! Look at the bright sun out there! Don't miss it!"

My life feels like a series of deadlines...even sunning the clothes has a deadline...before the rain and dark clouds come. Things on my list of to-dos:

1. Select the 300 actual day photos for the BS to develop
2. Burn the photos for my relatives
3. Fix up the telephone line (it's faulty :( )
4. Organize and plan the house warmings...
5. Weekly routine of when to got to which parent's place

Marriage comes with it a whole new set of responsibilities too...I'm not just living my own life now. it's very strange too...one the one hand I just wanna hide from the responsibilites, but on the other hand I wanna do it...I wanna cook, I wanna keep my home neat and clean...it's frustration when I can't match what I expect from myself.

I think I don't enjoy going to my in-laws or having them over...I just want the time to myself...but whenever I'm there, I'm glad to be there or I'm happy to have them over. Very contradictory....I guess once the initial reluctance is overcomed, the rest is actually very easy. I like my in-laws very much...just that most time I'm so tired I prefer to go home. But still, I know Hun misses his family and they miss him too...so I'm also happy to go there cos it makes everyone happy.

Maybe I'm not so settled in yet? Maybe it takes time to adjust...but for the moment, I think I found my avenue to relieve my stress...cooking. I enjoy trying new things and cooking for hubby. Yesterday the in-laws came over and I cooked barley drink, so happy they liked it :) Guess these are the things that makes me feel good and gives me the strength to go the next step.

God is good, and I know He is sustaining me. Nope, He doesn't supernaturally make marriage a breeze for me, but gives me just enough to sustain each day. I'm grateful that He strengthens me to face my responsibilities. It's not the physical things that wears me down, it's really more of the emotional responsibilties I have as a wife, daughter and daughter-in-law. I want the best for hubby, his parents and mine too. So everyday it's constantly a choice of my own needs or theirs...which ultimately theirs still comes first.

And the prospect that when we have our little ones in future, their needs will again come above mine...it's daunting. I guess I'm really struggling with myself more than anyone or anything else. It's really a huge task...and I really wonder how can anyone be a wife, daughter, mother, daughter-in-law, a full time employee all at the same time!

I'm surprised at myself nowadays...doing a household chore doesn't feel like a chore anymore...it's more of a chore to see things not done!! Thank God I have a husband who is more than willing the share the housework...and encourages me to see it as opportunities to do things together. Working on the housework together really feels good :) We get things done faster and after that we can both sit down and relax and enjoy the clean home.

Marriage is still very surreal to me...maybe I'm really just trying to adjust and get used to my new status. Thank God up till now Hun & I do not have any major conflicts though I'm beginning to see a very major difference between us. I'm as introverted a person as Hun is an extrovert...and it means that the way Hun and I relax and re-energize is very different. He'll enjoy relaxing by doing something or going out to meet friends, but for me, I just want some "ME" time...time alone to myself. I can be doing anything or not doing anything, but the time is mine and solely mine, and of cos I'll be glad to share it with Hun. But so far, I guess we've been adjusting to each other pretty well...I try my best to look happy when I'm one of those "I wish we were home instead of here" moods, and he tries to be understanding too.

On the whole, it has been a good one month or so :)

Back to Amore

After 6 months of break, I'm back to Amore again...went to the civic centre outlet yesterday and join their LO class. After the class, I went to work out at the gym for about 30mins, and then steam room for 15 mins.

Feels good to exercise once again! Now Amore is have a promotion...for the same package that I'm holding now, I pay about $10 lesser each month for a 1 year contract! Dunno if I should continue to sign up for it or not....hmm....or should I just discontinue...in a dilemma now...I really enjoy their facilities alot...but if we're gonna plan for a family next year, then the package will go to waste again....but then again, Amore allows me to disrupt when I'm pregnant...if I don't remember wrongly.

Well...dunno lah...anyway there's also hardly time for me to attend the classes now anyway. Maybe I should just finish my current contract and that's it...in any case, will wait till my contract ending then say lor...must control myself not to be swayed and enticed by their 'special offer'...if they wanna keep me, they will sure let me enjoy some perks one right? hehe...

New things in the house

Got several new things for the house!

1. Cool looking digital clock....finally there's a clock in the living room!
2. Storage shelves from IKEA...haven't got time to assemble it yet.
3. SCV!!! Finally!!

Finally had the time to spend the evening all to ourselves at our home for the first time since we got married. most times, we're home just to bathe, do housework then sleep. Yesterday, we went home straight after applying for our SCV and took an afternoon nap. After that we enjoyed a relaxing evening watching TV...hehe...

Truly enjoyable! Looking forward to more evenings like this...

Hope we'll be less busy as the days goes by...

Busy

Time flies...4 more days and we would have been married for a month already. So far life has been very busy. There's an endless list of things to do and places to go. I'm feeling tired already. The introverted side in me is sounding the red alert. I feel like finding a cave to hibernate. Doing things and meeting people is sapping the energy out of me. Spending time to "nua" at home seems like an impossible task now...I'm home so late every night.

Hope things get better soon...right now...I just need sleep and quiet moments to myself to recharge. Hun says we can get our SCV soon...yeah!! Soon I can start my watch-tv-and-relax regime again...looking forward to my SCV