“Relationship Seminar”? wot?

We are off to attend a “relationship” seminar every tuesday for 10 weeks. Sounds really cheesy. Is our relationship so bad that we have to go for it?? Not that.

We had some bad times, as with every couple. Now, looking forward, we see it to be an essential part in our relationship. With a common goal and commitment and proper communication, how we can bring the r/s to the next level. What’s more, this is a Relationship seminar – not just BGR relationships. but every type of relationships in our life – friends, family, work.

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~The New Student.

No separate ROM day

we’ve jointly decided that we will not do a separate ROM. Solemnization will be done during the actual day of the dinner, as we want to minimize our costs as much as possible. (and frens’ pockets as well.)

We may find a day to celebrate our (long overdue) engagement and hold a small party at my parent company’s hotel (having low low asian staff rates now. about 70% off! hehe!). ok, an engagement party is my idea. hehe.

we’ll probably keep it a tiny and private affair cos we cant squeeze everyone into 1 tiny hotel room.

Looking for a geomancer

Anyone has recommendations of those true-blue traditional and accurate geomancers who don’t fix their fees at exorbitant rates  but rather accept angbaos?

i still dont believe there isnt one out there. why would real shifus charge so many money for, if geomancy is their passion and helping people is their life’s purpose??

*grumbles*

Scary, Fun Budgeting

“why do you have a euphoric look on your face…??”, beng asked as i was going through our June budgeting this afternoon with him.

Budgeting is scary, it’s daunting, but at the same time, i dunno why that i dunno why, i’m surprisingly deriving joy while explaining my ingenious 2 year budgeting breakdown:

“ok, this month we need to start putting in XXX cos u see, we have commitments a, b, c, d, e, f, g …..which by date xxxx we’ll need a, yyyy we’ll need to spend b, etc…. when you work backwards based on my excel formula, this works out to be like this…..Besides, we need to account for a gradual input, so 1st 6 mths we put in XXXX, then nx 6 mths YYYY,…..then see, we can then manage the upcoming expenses of aa, bb, cc, dd…….”

i’m quite proud of my excel spreadsheet really. hehe. i broke it down into each and every aspect of expenditure that i can predict in the next 2 years and it’s quite fun doing it out. How we get the money isn’t important, cos as long as the commitment is there, we will make it. More importantly is whenever we have the same goal ahead of us that’ll make the whole process easy or tough. ^^ Gambatte!

~BTB

We are back! from a whirlwind of events…

we were at Kota Kinabalu scaling southeast asia’s peak and having a leisurely time from 22 – 28 May.

will post up more pics when i hv e time to do the sorting and uploading onto wordpress.

29 – 30 May we did a crazy thing with intuners – all 9 of us took up a vodka clinical test (how cool is that! but it’s really not so after u know what happened to us) at changi general hospital. it was BAD. we had a good time having a “mini gathering” the night before playing pool and watching serene’s wedding and our KK trip pics, watching movies, BUT, morning time comes when we had fasted for 9 hrs, drinking about 300ml of 70% mixer of smirnoff-orangejuice wasn’t funny. at first yes. cos everyone was giggling, dancing, speaking loudly (ah, the perils of being drunk – u become incoherent and start acting weird). then by the 3rd 100ml, clement started vomiting. quite violently. MT’s sis too. and huishan as well. we all started having monsterous headaches. it was so not funny. i ALMOST puked too cos i smelt the puke when i went to the toilet. had to force myself to bathe so as to freshen up. we were only released at about 3pm that afternoon. At the end, poor clement suffered the worst. But WOW, an experience it is.

then, me and beng went through a rough patch from 30 May to 6 June. that’s 1 whole week of…well….bad times. Some friends knew, some didn’t. I would only say, we are glad it’s all over. We are now planning forward positively and moving on to our next milestone – getting a geomancer this June.

Half-yearly HDB sale queue results

Your queue number is 06076.

As about 10000 applicants have applied for the 438 flats offered for sale. Applicants with queue position 2001 and above will be informed of their selection appointment if there are flats still available before their turn is due.

SO SAD. T.T

JDI.

i love that nike slogan.

what’s in my space now?

people like to say “I have no time”.

Who has? just like the chinese says: “时间是自己找出来的。”

没有人是没时间。只是把事件排成重要或不重要。

最重要的: 你的长期目标是什么？

What is your long-term goal? What do YOU plan to do in 5 years time?

I’m currently now busying myself with 3 main things:

1) Self-fulfillment

2) Working towards my future

3) Being happy

I do #1 via the volunteer tuition i give. i get alot of satisfaction from there. Many ppl have told me how passionate they are about that too, how interested they are in such things…but really, Action speaks louder than Words. i always tell myself – “drmisha, don’t just TALK, COMPLAIN, WHINE. DO SOMETHING.“

My aiesec friend is also asking me to join the local alumni team which i’m considering. i mean, inject some LIFE into my life manz! Face people, talk to people, get into the community! then my life will not just all be about me, myself and i. which is a little self-centered. if i can contribute while i still can, sure why not!

sometimes i head down to Landmark centre to contribute whenever i can. Assisting is a happy thing to do, for me.

NSE is cool. help people, help myself.

I still have the 3Fs, an I and a W:

Family, Friends, Fiance, in-laws, Work..

Divine Couture

BEAUUUUTIFULLLL gown from Divine Couture….*dreamy eyes*

Honeymoon destination – villas?

*starry-eyed*

so nice….

Villa Haven

Gown rentals

Considering that we have to source for our own Actual Day items (though it’s still a looong way to go) at LOW COST, I came across some pretty decent gown rental shops:

i-dazzle

I knew about this from the Batam trip as they are one of the event sponsors. Browsing through the website, i love their celebrity gowns! for my evening gown, i’d loveee to custom-make a celebrity glamour piece.

Just Gowns

Seems like a complete place to go for all my AD stuff! everything is on rental! and not too highly-priced. hehehe. when i visited Fairmont during the StyleWedding’s Glamour Bash last weekend, one of the bridal studios was audacious enough to tell me “oh, if u just want to rent, already $2,000 per pc. u might as well take a package with us.” SO TURNOFF. Yeah i know that’s the traditional way of doing bridal biz, but HARLOWW it’s already coming to the 22nd century, new new ways plsssss. Consumers need customized solutions, not Take-it-or-leave-it. Competition’s tough these days for the same biz, if u haven’t realised!

BlessedBrides

Seems like a tiny one-woman show..but Blessed Brides offers her own tailoring services as well…

Bridal Closet

This is one popular one in Flowerpod & Cozycot forums. but i kinda think the designs abit old-fashioned…but seems cheap!