Why i want a fancy wancy camera part 2

i have managed to convince  S to get us a new fancy wancy idiot-proof camera in 2010.

We need to get it before we go to Russia/Maldives/Mauritius.

yum yum yummmmy. i am excited.

On other news, i went to Timbre the other night with Sandy and we were talking about debating.

how i miss debating.

i sorely miss it. and miss public speaking.

sigh….. see what i found—->  here.

meh.

those were the days.

i also miss singing on stage with the girsl.

having so much fun backstage and laughing like there’s no tomorrow.

i miss practicing at my place to Tainted Love and singing Fever with Shahidah.

i miss superdawn being our manager, busying us around and making sure we all kept our sanity in checks before we ran on stage.

i miss phoebe being our unofficial photographer and cameraman. (ok ok. plus wilson. )

I miss bubble tea + Prayer cake ddaaayysss!

this is where i hate growing up.

Guess who’s going wakeboarding on Saturday?

with the glorious sun and lovely boat ride.

oh my god, i cannot wait.

god bless everybody and have a rocking 2010!

PS: COME TO BLUJAZZ. Sixx is playing.

PPS: I am in the office blogging and everyone else is drinking champagne + wine. Ok, Sandy and i just went online window shopping.who feels like working on the eve of new year? pleasseeee……

Ok, im out! gonna join the rest at the back.

xoxo

boredom is EVIL!

Boredom

it sets your mind thinking. For the first time in a long long while, i am sitting at work with absolutely nothing to do.

Ok, im lying. i do have things to do but im still in my holiday mood and all my clients are on leave so no one is chasing me and ive been busy facebooking with my manager in tow. how awesome yo.

Rules of engagement

Apparently there are so many i wonder which idiot had all the time in the world to come up with them.

I for one am clearly flouting each and every one of them. But hey, then again, it’s me we’re talking about here.

It’s like walking on a sheet of broken glasses. EVERYWHERE you walk, you’re sure to get a splinter. I kid you not.

i think i have fought with S more times in this one year then the 5 years that we’ve been together. It’s strange really cause 2 weeks before the party, i was out with a couple of friends. One of which coincidentally just got married.

His first reaction when i broke it to him was, ” Oh no… don’t lydia. just dont. if you love each other, just get married and screw this process!”

Those non-malays would prolly not understand the gravity of this situation and im far too lazy to describe the process. The number of people just involved in this entire space you’ve built with your other half is scary. Suddenly, they are walking around with this new found responsibility. They suddenly have a say!

what.

Apparently, where they come from, it’s called advice. Rubbish is more like it.

I feel angsty all the time and naturally the relationship gets the brunt of it.

someone should sue Disney for planting the ideas in little kids heads that every girl has a prince and everything ends up happily ever after.

See, love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayls.

We are all guilty of that.

Life when engaged

Those who are in an engagement don’t really talk about it. It’s almost taboo to discuss this. Let alone in a public portal.

But i shall adopt the role of a responsible and kind citizen by dispensing some personal experiences.

1) If you love your other half. For the love of god, screw the engagement process and just bloody get married. The amounting pressure on the engagement is just a bloody pain in the ass. You are under constant scrutiny. Both families are watching your every move and everything is placed under a microscope. oh… and everyone suddenly has tunnel vision: marriage.

2) If you still need to go through the engagement process, then keep it short. the longer you go through it, the more problems will surface. I think, you start looking at your other half as a husband more than a partner. you start developing questions like “Is he able to support me?” “What if he finds my amounting pile of clothes annoying?” “What if i can’t connect with the family?” (You’d be jolly well surprised, that even after many years, you are still struggling to learn the in-laws way of living. it’s normal i think. i hope.)

3) FLIP THE PAGES OF HISTORY IF YOU HAVE TO. See, my take is simple. get it out and clear it out of your system. Do not linger a minute longer. Have an issue, say it out. do not let it dwell in your being because it is poisonous.

4) don’t apologize if you don’t mean it.

5) telling your other half that you’re not going to do it again is not an apology im afraid. that is just saying, “Oh, i dont think it was wrong but since it’s making your hormones all psycho and suicidal then ok, i wont do it again.” WHAT IS THIS. -.-

5) have sufficient me-time. You can only allow someone to love you when you have enough of self-giving because you wouldn’t know how to love you if you havent done any lately. you would spend all your energy cursing your other half for not loving you correctly when you dont even know how to! If you love life, then don’t squander time. i am famous for that.

6) If people tell you that forgiveness is choosing to love. and that it is the first skill of self-giving love. They’ve probably not been in a relationship before.

7) don’t hope. Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of man. faith yes. Hope? NO. you want something, you work for it. Dont sit there and expect the cake to bake by itself.

8 ) If all fails, make sure you have a safety net. just make sure you only tell the necessary. and make sure if your other half is psychotic, he/she never finds out. Also, make sure your safety net is someone/people who is/are capable enough of helping you out. Is well enough to dispense advice. If you just want a listening ear, go speak to the trees in the forests. At least you know for sure the trees are not going to tell anyone else.

9) if you do not have a safety net or do not have time to go to the forest, let me know. I’ll introduce you to my very very good friend: Apple Juice. and boy, believe you me, you will be in love after this.

Marriage Plans

Is just plain annoying. I wonder why a marriage planner is not an essential part of being married. you know? Like how you get pregnant and you need to have a gynae? why is it that when you’re planning for a wedding, there isn’t a planner in near sight? Pray tell me.

At first i was all excited and going through booklets of locations and food menus and rushing to the next wedding exhibitions. But now?

S and i are planning our AFTER wedding plans. yes, we are strange like that. we’re thinking of our trips AFTER the wedding.

We talk about the house and getting a new cat (ok, this one abit one-sided but hey, someone needs to start first).

and suddenly the marrige is like, ok, let’s just bloody get a venue and get someone is capable enough to do EVERYTHING in a bundle so we can snuggle in and watch cable with Shelly.

That is how lazy we are. or maybe that’s how lazy i am.

I dont even want to go and hunt for clothes. i have decided to save money and tailor my dress for below 2oo bucks. cheapo.

i think my mum is more excited than i am.

I want it to be nice but im far too lazy to sieve through everything. oh my godzzzz….

how now brown cow?

I think S is great when it comes to this. His amounting patience on such nitty gritty details is so amazing that i want to coddle him till he chokes.

Typical convo:

“Ok, what you think of venue ABC?”

“Can lah.”

“you like the space?”

“Oklah. big enough.”

“then how? The plan like that? Pass?”

“dont know leh. can lah i think. what do you want?”

“ok, so here’s a pile of food menus *dumps stacks of printed venues, food menus, price list*”

“*gets excited for a while” yay! ok, we’ll go through it! *gets distracted in the next second by Shelly’s odd behaviour*”

that is the progression of our wedding plans. that is how terrible we are. -.-

My perfect wedding plan?

everyone come, everyone eat, everyone laugh and everyone go for after party while i crash into the hotel suite with S.

and then next morning? Fly out to Maldives to dive with the fishies…. bloop bloop bloop.

not bad. no?

aiya ya ya ya ya.

boredom. is. dangerous.

So dan directed me to his favourite website:

icanhazcheezburger.com

more of xmas!

xmas at work.

i had so many presents!

sandy kok bought me a hello kitty handbag calculator.

oh such love. she got me jlo perfume as well. and i had sjp’s perfume from the office. and many many vouchers from bugis that i shared with sandy.

the whole office played bowling and we ate at the hotel next door.

oh, i love merry giving!

ok. too many blog posts for one night.

im out!

xoxo

photolog

Had a very good time with adam-sydney the other night at timbre. although he was very busy playing with his new toy. and i was a very willing participant to that.

Guess who finally got her other half a blackberry? )))))

Happy birthday pumpkin. muuuuaaaaaccccckkkkksssssssss.

ewwww. PDA.

Met ashraf, afiyah and her strings of friends at Hacienda last weekend. that was good. i actually like Hacienda.

Jone’s getting a tad too crowded. hacienda’s choices wider i feel.

yum yum yummmyyy…..

new edition to my already crowded workspace.

mood calender. super duper cute.

although every morning my manager dictates how im feeling.

she’ll hover at my desk, speak to me then she decides my mood.

she’ll casually walk up to my desk every now and then to change it.

not sure according to whose mood though. hmmmmm…..

ok dokes. parents just got back from indonesia. and i have good food to fill my up.

x

xmas!

Xmas@Larry’s

Those are pics overdue. I am so lazy uploading pics it’s crazy. It’s so much easier just plonking them on facebook. but this is for the benefit of my friends who do not have facebook.

you know who you are you crazy buggers. just get on facebook already.

baby aurick is so cute it’s crazy. he was behaving so so good that night.

Xmas@Jeff’s

Can’t see it here but my hair is so much shorter!! i chopped it!

i felt so sad i nearly cried but Jose said my hair is beyond repair. She actually fed me red bean soup cause it was such a painful affair.

my pocket is burning such a deep hole i dont want to talk about it.

i paid half a thousand so someone can cut my hair. what logic is this?

gaaawwwddd.

Xmas@Lenda’s

I love her cooking.

she should just dedicate her life to cooking. her ravioli with truffle is oh so orgasmic.

so yyuuummmyyy…

here’s hoping i can cook like her.

here’s hoping i can even get a full fledge kitchen with a spanking new oven. *stares at S*

Xmas with my girls

oh such love to spend xmas eve eve with the girls. Been so long since i laughed so hard.

i love them. i have new undies! thanks dawnie.

thanks for lovely hair product dear shen.

i have candies and loads of magnets, cat stuff. cat necklace….

and sha bought my lemongrass aromatherapy scent from bangkok!!!!

i nearly died from happiness. thank you thank you thank you!

and more importantly, thanks for listening. me loves you girls you DEATH.

Hope your xmas went a-awesome!

xoxo

Lyd

rara roma roma ra ra roma roma

it’s been such a great week!

I had tennis over the weekend, S and i did the macrtichie tree top trail. My legs are sore and i love the feeling of it. I have  huge blue black on my leg, loving that too.

and ive been squeezing me time the whole week. love love love it.

Managed to grab a few drinks after work with Adam, met up with the girls (pics soon). I had late nights with Sandy. and that girl cracks me up like there’s no tomorrow.

Have had a million xmas presents! so many of them! Sandy bought me a calculator. damn cute. have so many bottles of perfumess… marks and spencer hampers…. cookies…. clips…. necklaces… bracelets from madame butterfly….. wine bottles…. everything!

Last night was so much fun with the girls! it was so so good. i miss them so much.

Ok, will talk more when i have the time. gonna chop off my hair!

xoxo

Lyd

Think you have a problem?

SAMUT PRAKAN, THAILAND – A daughter has asked police to arrest her own 82-year-old father for having repeatedly raped her 77-year-old paralyzed mother.

The man, Songkrit (surname withheld), was arrested in Muang district Monday night. The daughter told police that she once found the father masturbating and touching her paralyzed mother.

She told the father not to do it again but she said she caught him red-handed again and again so she decided to file a complaint with police.

The father denied that he had raped his wife but was simply giving her a massage.

The paralyzed woman could not testify.

Why i want a fancy wancy camera…

As compared to………

I have been so cooped up at work ever since i got back from my trip, it is insane! Adam Sydney (not the other adam, that one dont know run to which planet to reside. we’re still trying to establish some form of connection) had to literally yank me out of my office desk to meet him for a bit. Poor bugger, come all the way from Sydney then have to listen to this stupid woman complain about being stuck at work. Yikes!

Girls

Found time to meet up with the girls. I was so entertained listening to Shen talk about her Gossip Aunty Life now. Macam desperate houswives, only without the pesky husbands. oh wait… actuallly….

Xmas Celebrations!

Have started yo! I LOVE Larry’s place! loved how it’s clean and tidy enough. Actually, i love how bright it looks. maybe it’s the white furniture. hmmmm…. i actually like how the spiral staircase is smacked right in the middle of the house, leading to another floor and the roof. S is not too impressed by it though.

ahhhh…. perils of differing opinions. I think he’s planning to have 11 kids cause he wants space. He thought larry’s place no space! WHUT. he has got to be kidding me. it was huge! well, big enough for 2.

Network of the year

Guess which company bagged the network of the year?

We had a little sesh yesterday in the board room. Wine all around, mochis, tarts and big grins everywhere. <3<3<3<3

Xmas Cards

Finished writing 16 xmas cards to all my lovely clients. Had stickers and cute little glitters. heh. Boss now cracking his brain to try and beat my notes.

Party on Wed

Guess whose boss gave the entire office a half day this wed? go makan makan and bowl. HAH. that will be a riot.

EOY Vacation

I know we just got back from Indon but guess who’s busy prowling on the net for holiday destinations?

I think we may have just found a place!

Ok, im going to hunt for hotels and then proceed to catch up on Women’s Murder Club.

xxx

Some Weekend lovin’

Naomi comes to town

Naomi and Damian decides to visit the family after yonks! We went to town and saw the xmas lightings. Had coffee at liat. i never knew starbucks at liat’s 24 hours. did you?

She was traveling around asia for the last month and SG was the last pit stop. Wonder when ill ever get to that.

you know? Take a whole month off and just travel. siggghhhh…..

Just got back from Yogjakarta but guess who wants a holiday from her trip? :/

i want to go to a beach destination and just seeeehhhhhh. you know?

i remembered once when i told him i wanted to go to the beach, laze under the sun with my sunnies and read a book. He gave me a look and went, “…but why? We can do that when we are old and can’t walk much.”

clsssic.

It’s so different from what S wants out of a trip. To him, a trip means a jam packed schedule with places to visit and areas to cover every minute of the day.

to me? Just sometimes, i want to laze in the room or walk by the beach, or maybe immerse myself in a game of local soccer over an iced tea. For what it’s worth, S DID try to accommodate  but his fidgeting got the better of me, so we proceeded to places he wanted to cover.

then again, maybe cause it was too short a time, we had to cover all the places on the map. meh.

Sunday Face

Aunty Imah and family came here from Melbourne. They did a week in Phuket and was back in Sg yesterday.

We did lunch and all. It’s so good to see them. I totally forgot to snap a picture. In fact, these days, i just use my bbold to snap! almost pathetic if you ask me.

Dropped S at the airport this morning, has a short flight to KL. Got coffee.

Grand plan was to go paint my nails and do my hair but the salon downstairs decides to conveniently close today.

Shelly has not moved for the past 3 hours.

another half an hour before S lands and we can go fill our tummies up. to say im starving now would be an understatement.

Ok! hope your sunday is going great!

be safe.

xoxo,

Lyd

murdered by emails

Back at work with over 360 emails.

spent the whole day just trying to get back on top of things.

jeng jeng jeng.

guess who needs 8 glasses of apple juice potion?

x