C is for Cinnamoroll!
I love cute things.
Right now, I'm obsessed with this puppy called Cinnamoroll!
I have the ruler,
I also have the stationary holder,
 
I also have the pencils,
and of course I had to have the sharpener. How else will I sharpen my pencils then?
And this may be a little extreme, but I have the umbrella too!
This is just counting the stuff I have in my office.
At home, I still have a notepad and pen, hair tie, wall hooks and also a cute little tupperware lunchbox!
The tupperware is so small that besides sweets, I can't think of anything else that would fit in there.
But hey! It's Cinnamoroll and it's CUTE~
I think I may have to make a trip to Suntec soon and get more Cinnamoroll stuff.
Handprints
The Husband and I spent a relaxing stay in Bintan over the weekend. Well, mostly relaxing.
We, being our usual last minute selves, missed out on a couple of essentials when packing for our trip. Make that one essential...contact lenses solution.
Luckily, the staff of the resort we were staying in were all friendly and helpful and one of them offered us her personal stash to tide us over.
With that crisis averted, The Husband got too relaxed and stayed under the sun too long and is now a red lobster.
Me, being the smarter one, slapped sun block on myself. But I did it a little too haphazardly and ended up with some hand shaped lines on my back....
Maybe I'm not the smarter one after all.
I just got a new mouse! 
Well the old mouse had some phantom control which I didn't know about. Sometimes, the cursor would start to move across the screen without me touching the mouse. The first few times it happened, I thought I needed new glasses. After a while, I would stare at the mouse accusingly. Then I decided it's a stupid mouse.
Since The Husband wanted to upgrade his computer too, we made a trip to Sim Lim and prepared to spend some money.
I really wanted a Mighty Mouse then. It's soooooo cute and pretty and sleek and white and...and...expensive. 
It costs $88.00! For a mouse that can right click, left click, scroll up and down...and oh yah! Scroll left and right too! I heard it can scroll diagonally on a Mac but this function will not work on my computer.
Not that I want to scroll diagonally, I don't even like to scroll left and right.
So in the end I got a Logitech mouse that costs way less and can basically do the same functions, except it doesn't look as cool as the Mighty Mouse and does not have a cool name like Mighty Mouse. Doesn't matter really, since I'm not going to start introducing people to my mouse and tell them "This is my Mighty Mouse!"
They'll probably think I'm a good candidate for Woodbridge. On another note, please help me wish Aelynna well also. 
Poor Aelynna, she's having a lot of trouble with her work now and she's freaking me "waaaay out" with her wishes for being mowed down by a truck and chopping Head Cooks up. 
Hopefully all things can end well and encourage her to stop freaking me out. Let's all give her our support, k?
I'm a Bimbo?
Somedays, I'm a bimbo.
I used to be able to take part coherently in a conversation with guys about things like cameras, computers and the latest gadget up on the market which can record, play and sit up and beg.
Then University happened.
While my friends entered the School of Computing in Uni, I was pushed to the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. So while my friends were studying programming, I was studying French, Politics and Philosphy. Philosophy was a mistake, I couldn't wait to drop the subject after the first year. I still remembered the first module I studied for Philosophy was "Logic". It made no sense and was totally illogical, at least to me. The law students in my class seemed to find that it made perfect sense.
My friends were doing cool things like programming languages and...and...and whatever students of computing were doing, while I was struggling with French grammar, vocabulary and spelling, and wondering why so many political leaders in the world were nutcases.
I still remembered a website I had to set up for a project in my Uni days. I was using Frontpage, which is supposed to be really easy to use and idiot proof. Was it just me or was I just plain unlucky, I had a lot of problems with the graphics I was uploading then. After messing with it for a few hours and getting more and more frustrated, I threw a temper tantrum and retreated to my bed to sulk and feel sorry for myself. My poor boyfriend (yes, he's my husband now in case you are wondering) had to finish it up for me that night.
All my available brain power then was used to do things like memorising french spelling and wondering why the heck they assign gender to words. And mentally cursing some long dead frenchmen who decided that french words should look beautiful, and started adding extra constonants onto words so they would all look nice, long and elegant.
I blame Uni for making me a bimbo. And now, having recently acquired a techie husband, I'm worse. The extent of my computer knowledge is this:
"Deeeeaaaaarrrrr! I cannot play EQ2! Why?"
and
"Daaaaaahhhhhliiiiing! Why the computer like this one? I cannot use!"
and
"Deeeaarrrr Deeaaarrr! Why the internet not working?"
The Husband will have to troubleshoot and do those things that only techies do. When I take over, my response will be usually this:
"Daaaaaahhhlliiiinnng! Thank you~"
or
"You bluff me! Haven't fix yet!"
You get the picture now? ;p
I Hate Planning
The Husband complained that if my blog was too long, I would start boring my readers. That's why there is the 2nd installment today. Not that many of my friends know this blog exists....
Hopefully there's no 3rd installment...but with me being so naggy and long-winded, you may never know!
The Husband and I decided on custom made wedding bands from Fairy's Inc after one evening of looking around at selections offered by the usual jewellery retailers out there. We were so impressed by the creativity of some of the couples that custom made their rings with Fairy's Inc that when we got home, we started thinking really hard on what kind of unique rings we will want. A design that is "Ours".
This foolish thought lasted for all of 1 hour before we gave up and conceded that the both of us just do not do creativity.
I blame the public schooling system. 
In the end, we just combined 2 existing designs and came up with our ring.
We had all our catering food sorted out, then like 2 weeks before The Event, we remembered that we forgot to do a list for the BBQ food. So we hurriedly drew up a list but before we could do any shopping (which we planned to! Honestly!), my mother-in-law already bought everything for us. And we had to start inviting our relatives and friends to the ceremony.
What happened to me was this :
My relatives said they would try to attend. So were they coming or not? Were their kids coming or not? Omigod, how many people will be attending?
My friends all wished me well and only like days before the event, a few said they could not make it.
My gaming buddies were the best. They were super on from the start. Except I kept forgeting to invite them until like a few weeks before the event....
What happened to The Husband was this :
He left it to my mother-in-law to make the calls to the relatives.
He invited his friends and colleagues earlier than me.
In the end, The Husband estimated the number of people attending would be around 50-60. I though it was more likely in the range of 80. When we contacted the deputy registrar, he requested for a face to face meeting with us. The first time we met him was in the Burger King's at Raffles Place. What struck us immediately on meeting him was : He looks young. And after chit chatting with him for a while, we discovered that our ceremony will be the first solemnization he's going to conduct. He was really friendly and charming. I am a person who would feel extremely uncomfortable when meeting a stranger for the first time. He made me feel at ease and I could chat with him easily without any of those awkward silences. For the 2 months before 9th September, I felt I was in a roller coaster of emotions. I could be deliriously happy one minute but I could get extremely depressed the next.
There were moments when I felt The Husband was moody and cold towards me, and I started to believe that The Husband may have regretted proposing in the first place. I would feel so sad and then I would tell The Husband that he didn't want to marry me, and then he would scold me and say that I am being silly. That would assure me for 1 week before the whole process started again. 
It was like a having a 2 month long PMS session.
I think The Husband was just glad that he did not have to go through it all over again. Well, I am glad I do not have to go through that again. Oh no, I still have the customary ceremony to think about! I hope I do not become a Bridezilla then....
Pink Fluffy Clouds
I am not, as the title suggests, high on drugs.
What I am "high" on is actually the aftermath of my ROM ceremony on Friday, the 9th of September.
Although there were a few hiccups during, preparation, everything went smoothly and I had my perfect ceremony.
The number of hours on planning the ceremony wasn't that much by all counts. Just that The Boyfriend...oops, it should be The Husband and I are both world class procrastinators. Why do things now when you can leave it to tomorrow?
It's a bad habit which I'm trying to kick. The Husband doesn't look like he wants to kick it anytime soon.
After the proposal, I discovered planning The Event was not a bed of roses.
Instead, I was fretting over the venue, the dress, the decorations, the tables and chairs, always the table and chairs, the food, the head count...countless stuff.
What transpired was this :
1) The venue had to be decided quickly. We had only 2 months to D-Day. Registration in the ROM office was strucked off immediately. Everything is over the internet now, and checking the date availability over the net, what struck me was this : Singapore sure has a lot of people wanting to get married. The dates were fully booked for the next 3 months! The latest date you could book was exactly 3 months later. So for 2 days, after checking the ROM website countless times, I knew the Singapore government has been successful in their campaign to encourage singles to get hitched. Either that or their web system was screwed.
Since ROM office is out (I was secretly jumping in joy then), we had to get an outside venue fast! Furthermore, the date we chose is a super popular date (9th September). Then it struck us that we had to get a solemnizer first. The Husband took care of that by calling 2 grassroot leaders in our constituency. The first didn't answer and the second said he was free on that date. Solemnizer checked!
Then the venue...hotels were beautiful but expensive. So we decided on a chalet. We hurriedly booked a chalet, and luckily for us, we could get a chalet by the poolside. Then the bad news that the pool would be drained during our stay there. But miracles happened. The second call The Husband made to the chalet another person said the pool would not be drained. Wow, they decided to cancel their draining for us! Yeah, right. 
2) The dress and the shoes made me worry a little too. I thought I would probably shop for like 2 months and not get my dress and panic and get one I do not really like out of desperation. So my best buddy and I made plans to start shopping immediately. Actually it was an excuse for us to go shopping.
We got the dress and the shoes on the first shopping trip. Unbelievable and we were a little disappointed. No more excuses to go shopping. Then we thought : Who needs excuses to go shopping?
Then we remembered the big hole in our wallets from all the previous shopping trips. Best to leave shopping till when we feel reasonably rich again.
3) The food did give us some trouble. We decided to do catering and BBQ right from the start. So The Husband contacted the chalet catering service to ask for a quote. Then we made A Fatal Mistake. The Husband told them it was for a ROM ceremony and asked them for their rates for decorations too. First they said they do not do decorations, then 10 minutes later, they called back and said they would (coz we wanted catering for 60 peeps then). The quote they sent was a joke.
The food list was a list of finger foods with an astronomical price per pax, with a minimum of 60 pax. Who eats fishballs and fish fingers for dinner?!?!
Then they quoted the price for decorations in per pax too. What were they going to do? Decorate the guests?
So on to other caterers, after we got confirmation that we could use outside caterers in the chalet. We settled on one a friend had used before for her baby's first birthday.
4) Decorations had to be done. After browsing through some florists and looking at their sky high prices, we decided to Do-It-Ourselves. So we decided on ballons, streamers, ribbons and flowers. More on the flowers later.
5) Table and chairs, table and chairs...I almost cried and quarrelled with The Husband over these. We had NO table and chairs for the ROM ceremony. The Husband said he would take care of them and until like one week before the ceremony, he still had not confirm any table and chairs. After much surfing the net and looking for information (on his side) and throwing of tantrums (on my side) , we had the table and five chairs.
6) The Husband's clothes. Let's just say men hate shopping and with The Husband as a world class procrastinator, he was still looking for clothes to wear the day before we checked in the chalet. In the end, he wore a nice shirt and pants he already owned.
Finally, it was D-Day.
We checked into the chalet one day before so we could start decorating it. We immediately set to work, checking out the place and thinking of ideas. The deco team (you guys know who) and the 2 of us immediately set off to the florist after that. We bought roses and orchids and some pretty looking flowers that we had no idea what they were and loads of ribbons.
When we came back, we debated on how to keep the flowers. In the end we stuff them in the ice box. That was when we made Fatal Mistake Number 2. We forgot to set the temperature to the weakest and put the flowers in water....
So the next day, when I opened the ice box, what greeted me was rock hard frozen flowers. After letting them defrost, they drooped and became : Dead Flowers. 
So there was a panicked call from me to one of the members of the deco-team to buy 6 red roses for the ROM table. We salvaged some of the roses and baby's breath but the rest were already in Flower Heaven.
The rest of the decorating went more smoothly, although there were still hiccups. Like, running out of streamers, balloons were really hard to tie up, balloons kept popping but we handled them well. In fact, compared to the Flower Tragedy, they hardly merited a bump on the road.
The planning did give me some moments of anxiety but for the most parts, it was moments of day-dreaming on how everything will end up eventually. And seriously, although The Husband disagrees, I thought all the trouble was worth it.
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Friday, September 23, 2005
