I am WOW !

I feel so blessed to always be surrounded by good friends. Some had even made it to my BFF league whom I know will always and forever be in my life and whom I will grow old with.

Despite the distance, they are always with me cause we are after all just an email or a phone call away. We may not talk to each other every single day but we always pick up where we left behind (Yes, I'm talking about you Amily)

I've received an email from an old friend whom I've known her since I'm 17yrs old. She picked up the broken pieces when I first had my heart broken and I was with her when she was with that idiotic and death deserving ex-bf, whom I spend countless hours cursing at and secretly praying that his "pee pee" will rot for the way he treat my friend. (Yes, Klarie, I was praying secretly).

Today she send me this email that both "WOW" me and let me know that, despite the current economy, I have such a generous friend. I know there's no price tag for a friendship but I can't help but just "Wow" by her offer.

Sorry Klarie, I hope you don't mind when I post your email up. I thought it's nice to let others know how generous you are and how lucky I am to have a friend like you.

So this is what Klarie wrote to me ...
"Hey u looking for tote.bag. Any luck? I think a branded one will go a long way.

What about the dress watch? I'm always lost when come to buying gift. Not the shopping type non follow trend.

For u, I'm willing to spend sgd 1,000 for any present of your liking! This is to compensate the many birthdays I missed n to be missing. Ha... So sgd1000 is not a lot. I hope you will accept my offer. If the tote bag is less than that, u may use the bal to get matching accessories or other stuff u fancy! Even up to sgd 1500 is fine with me.

Hope the weather is better now. Bill me I'll pay to your account.

From an old friend. "

Yes, I was "wow" when I read the above but it's just too much an offer for a birthday or even birthdays.

Klarie, THANK YOU SO SO MUCH for your generous offer but just your offer is the ultimate birthday present from you to me. And your friendship is always PRICELESS !

P/S: SGD1500 convert to USD1100++

Tropical Storm Fay

Tropical Storm Fay are still here and she's definately very persistant. She had been here since Monday evening and apparently she brought tons and heaps of rain with her. There have been a lot of report of damage and flood which seems inevitable when it have been raining for the past 3 days straight !

We have experienced the power going off and back on within 2 secs. It didn't cause too much damage for us except made me jumpy. Paul had stayed home from work since Tuesday and he's suffering from cabin fever. He's restless and been wanting to venture out to explore despite warnings to stay indoor when necessary.

He managed to convince me to check out our neighbourhood and we managed to take some photos of the damage caused by Fay. One of our neighbour's house have a tree fallen at the back of their porch. The tree at the side of my garage is lying at 45 degs and the pond at the back of the subdivision is threatening to over floor. Unfortunately, Sommer had also lost power at her house.

I can't wait for Fay's departure, this is frustrating.

Memory Lane

Hurrican Fay had touched down and despite the amount of rain and wind it bought, the damages it caused such as lost of power for some counties, the flooding with rain that reached the knee caps, some of the roofs were blown away, the weather stations call it Tropical Storm !

Luckily, all I get was the rain that come and goes. It's like another rainy day except when I watched the news and saw the damages that occured did I realise how lucky I am.

I am in the mist of scanning all of Paul and my baby pics along with pics from our past. When I looked at Paul's baby book, I realised the amount of effort his mother (aka my MIL) put in on creating and updating his baby book. I discovered how cute Paul was as a toddler and a child. I can't help but teased him with "You were so cute as a toddler and child, what happen along the way ???!!"

When I went through the pictures of me. I have to admit that majority of the pics when I was older was all of me and my friends and every pictures spells "Fun". Then came "Oh, I remember that occassion" and "Oh, that was so much fun" etc, etc.

I am so glad that I had that much fun and managed to travel to so many places when I was younger ? They definately gave me the memories that I will be looking back when I get older.

Hmm... what abt the traveling partners ???!!! Yes, my girlpals was definately in every single one of those. Which is why I reckon made the trip a blast. There is definately isn't a dull moment when I am with them.

Well, THANK GOD that I have an intelligent SIL who is helping me to create the "montarge" as that definately help me to save a sum of money.... and most importantly, I trust her work so that definately saved me some headache and agony. So once again, Sommer, THANK YOU SO SO SO SO VERY MUCH ! =)

Check out Paul's pic as a toddler and one of my fav pic of him and one of me as a toddler.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SISTER !!!!!

Wooohoooo.....Crossing my fingers worked !

My idiotic phone is acting up on me again. For some unknown reason despite our 1 yr old phone which is new and hardly used the battery often run dead. I remember during Cecilia's birthday, when I called her, it died on me after 20 mins. Thank God, I was able to wish Cecilia in time and today when it's Tricia's B-day, I was praying, sweating and worried that it's going to be another reoccuring nightmare with the damn phone. Bless the batteries that it worked perfect and there wasn't any hickcups.

It's always so exciting to have a conference call with the girls. I wonder if it's the update on the countless gossips or if it's simply because we just enjoy each other's existance. I've forgotten the girls' wicked sense of humour and how funny they can be and each time, they remind me of their quick and fast wit and come back. Ahhhhh.... I can't wait till my return back to Singapore.

I miss my girls.... I miss the life.... I miss EVERYTHING !!!

To my BFF and Mummy of my God-son, Have a Splendid Birthday !!!

P/S : Yes, yes, I will update you girls the result on Monday... This is sickening =/

My Tote Bag !

My hunt for a tote bag had officially begin !

I am in a need for a tote bag and that's purely for traveling purpose. I remember my agonising return back to the US when I have to stuff everything into my handbag since I don't want to travel 27hrs with a 10kg backpack. With a backpack, I tend to simply load everything and filled up my bag up since there's so much space and room for it. But much later, I would hate myself for carring the load on my shoulders.

Somehow either the stamina or the "perky-ness" was drained from me from my backpack days. I recall this conversation with my BFF, Tricia that I recall the days when I would travel around the world with a backpack on my bag either checking-in or out of the airport in a breeze.

Somehow it's time to upgrade and moved on to a tote bag a more "glam" subsitute to my backpack and offers more room than a handbag. Perhaps I'm at the age that it's no longer cute and cool carrying a backpack like those 23yrs old.

Like Tricia, I think she would soon be upgraded from a backpack to a baby bag. Since I have no baby bag to carry, I'll look for a tote bag as a subsitute hahah

I've tried looking but as usual, failed ! I wonder if Paul have been secretly chanting that I failed at my hunting mission ? But I know it's useless to have your husband to give you opinion.

To make things worst, I know what I want and looking for... something like this =)

I'm DONE !

After days of battling with the uneven textured wall and fighting with my OCD. I've finally accomplished my mission ( or rather, I'm just too tired for the countless rounds of touch-up). Also, I would be so ready to bloody rip the next person's head off when he/she tells me "Oh, it's so easy to paint".

I've just spend 3 hours cleaning the entire house and immediately I grabbed my camera and start snapping away before my internal batteries run dead. Seriously having OCD and cleaning up the house is not a good combination. True, even the air smells good in the house but it's just so energy draining.

Just to recap, I've painted 3 walls in my living room, 1 wall in my bedroom, 1 wall in my bathroom and 1 side table. I've used up one and a half gallon of paint in total and have the remaining half gallon of paint left. Which left me wondering, "Where and what should I paint next ???"

Next on my "to-do" list is to hunt down a square coffee table, side table, a cool floor lamp and some decorations for our bare living room walls. I've realised that just like shopping for a good pair of shoes. When you're out hunting, you can never find what you want. Whereas when you're not looking, it seems to pops out every where ! Thus I have "officially stop"(cross fingers) looking around. *grin*

Anyway, here's my accomplishment, check it out !

Super Exhausted

Awwwww..... My entire body is breaking apart and I think I should stop watching HGTV (Home & Garden Television) for inspiration ( I discovered that majority of the Americans have color walls in their house) and getting myself into trouble !

For the longest time, I was happy with having white walls all over the entire house. Paul was relief that I am sticking to white despite Sommer have been encouraging me to add some colors into our wall and even my neighbour who have been telling me it's a breeze to paint and it only took her 1 day to paint her living room. She's a LIARRRRR !!!!

I've been spending the last 2 1/2 days (since Sunday evening) painting partial of the living room and 1 wall in my bathroom (since we have so much extra paint left). And my entire body is breaking apart. It may seems easy just thinking that it's partial of the living room and 1 wall in the bathroom but man, it's back breaking !

The idiotic thing is, I have OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) and I want everything to be perfect. I've spent the entire of yesterday painting the living room and bathroom and today touching up the smudged areas. Like a curse, despite using the painting tape to help me with the alignment but since the surface of our walls are uneven it's a giantic challenge to accomplish a straight clean line that seperate the 2 colors and it's driving me BONKERS !!!!

The annoying part is Paul kept telling me "It's okay, no one will stand infront of the wall and inspect it." But with my OCD kicking in, I have this idea in my head that everyone will come into my house with a magnifying glass rating my work.

Yes, my back is breaking, my neck is aching and my right arm appears to be dislocated and the house is in a mess. But I love the color I got on.

Thank God it was love at first sight for Paul with the Green walls as well (afterall, his favourite color is Green). Initially I thought he was patronising me since he was very happy with the white walls as he hated painting more than anything else. With my assurance that I'll be the one painting and he merely need to give me his opinion with the colors, he happily drove me to the paint store. Gosh did I hate myself for assuring him that I'll be doing all the painting !

Now that crazy bunny love the color so much, he's trying to brainwash me to paint 1 of the wall in our bedroom the same color as the living room as well....

Lying flat out on the floor, I told him I need at least 1 day break and be away from the paint brush, the rollers and all the manual work. I've realised that my brain works better than my body. I'm so relief that I've picked the "right" color, it really goes well with the dark brown couch we got.

As soon as I re-arrange the furniture, I'll definately take a pic and post it.

Thus if some of you folks have not been able to talk to me online or receive my emails, that's because I'm busy painting and busy catching my breath !