Chapter 1403 - Goodbye 2019, Hello 2020.

It’s the last day of 2019!
It’s the last working day of 2019!

ZOMG! Time flies very fast for this year and tomorrow is a brand new chapter for me and everyone. Let’s look back on how eventful this year was!:

January
Nothing much! Just a new chapter for the year of 2019.

February Chinese New Year and cousins was the first guests doing house visiting at our new nest.
First trip of the year to Taipei!
Had my first style shoot with @Beautywkerin (find her on IG! you can also visit my IG story highlight for her portfolio)

March
Celebrated our 10th year anniversary being together
Attended the first wedding of the year – Cousin’s wedding

April
My last “2” birthday. Ohmannn. It gonna be a new milestone in 2020. 老了 :(
Nothing much for April, almost whole month celebrating my birthday with different companions.

May 
HubB’s birthday
Attended second wedding of the year
Sheng Siong supermarket finally launched which is just right under our estate – this make me really really happy! #auntystyle
Had my first official rock climbing experience

June
Did my annual body check up – Thankfully there’s no major issue yo!
High tea with CIL at Violet’s Onn
Brought Mummy out to explore Jewel (Just me and her. Hehe!)

July
Visited BKK with HubB
Travelled to Anmon resort at Bintan

August
New pet arrived at Pohham, our precious Hammy furball

September
My last batch of graduation event from the previous university which I was handling – my most favourite uni!
Attended 3rd wedding of the year – colleague’s wedding

October
Hokkaido trip with the in laws
Got my first eyelash extension experience and I don’t like it! It was so pokey and my eyes got irritation thereafter.
Attended 4th wedding – Cousin’s wedding

November
Dearest ahgong’s birthday – omg, I miss him so so much!
My BP was screwed and I felt like im d*ing as I was feeling really bad. Everyday I felt like im gonna faint and felt like im floating while walking.
HubB randomly got me Mickey and Minnie stacked ring from Pandora hehe
Had my last graduation event for the year!
New addition to our entertainment corner: Switch!
Celebrated Mum’s birthday
Company D&D at Capella on our monthsary
Had my first experience on doing “bling bling” hair extension from the black hair salon

December
Attended colleague’s baby girl’s first birthday celebration
Preparing for Christmas!
Got our very first pink Christmas tree
Bought new Longchamp bag for myself at price $10 because I have got taka voucher from the company. Hehe
Final wedding of the year!
Attended JJ Lin’s concert!
Bought new water dispenser for our nest
Christmas dinner with the department and i was the emcee
Celebrated MIL’s birthday at Melban seafood
Christmas!
Christmas & year end gathering with in laws at our nest

What an eventful year! Actually attended few more wedding but can’t remember which are the month we have attended. A total of 7 wedding this year! 

Didn't really have a fixed resolutions because I know I won’t be following it hahahaha. But then, I wish my 2020 will be filled with good news, happiness, wealth & health and family/love ones around me to stay healthy, safe and happy! Quoted a meaning quote from JJ Lin “不回报的爱”. Not because I admire him than I find this meaningful hor, but this has been stuck in my mind for few days ever since the concert. I find it really really meaningful.

I am glad that I went ahead to follow the trend by asking “is there something you want to tell me before 2020?” on my IG story because that was the point where I get to know myself better from the point of view of my friends. & YASS! Being yourself is ultra important because this will definitely impact on your daily life routine and boost your morale. Sooooo... im gonna be myself on the new chapter tomorrow. Sounds so cliché but okay la, new year new me! – 非常假. LOLOL But i really want to start afresh to be nice to everyone and learn to be neutral in everything and point of views.

Being myself will also allow you to experience the different me when comes to updating this space. Because am someone who is very singlish and I always mixed with Mandarin and English whenever I talk so hor, I will be blogging in the way on how I usually react on my daily life. And i do know my grammar and vocab is definitely not up to standard one so ya, it's good for me to be myself and blog in my own way. Pardon me if sometime there’s mandarin language appearing on my blog okay? I will try to minimise but okay, be myself. Hahahahaha

And I wanna say hello to all my Dayre readers! Ohmygod! I really miss the Dayre community seriously but I still don’t feel like paying that minimal fee for the subscription. I know is affordable but being a housewife cum working adult I know 钱难赚 and every cents counts you see. #budgetaunty .

I think I can save the fee for something else which is more realistic to me. Furthermore I am not so active on updating my Dayre like in the past so I don’t think is worth for me to spend on that. But who knows I might be heading back to Dayre someday? If im preggy I might do so because the communities there are really helpful! I haven’t delete the app on my mobile because I am not confidence if i will go back someday. Then again, i have added a tagboard on my sidebar which anyone and everyone can just comment anything and in anonymously if they are not comfortable to reveal their real identity which Dayre is not able to do it. I do understand some readers might have created a second account at Dayre just to hide their identity when commenting one's updates. But be nice ya! No spamming or cursing at my tagboard. Whichever i have updated here are just personal views/verdicts so no hard feeling against it!

Probably in 2020, i wanna aim to save more money, spend more time with family, friend and also give a space for my personal time. Love catching up with friends and ex colleagues!

Here's my best nine of 2019!

Whoahh. is all about me and HubB. Time to brush up my IG with more other people faces in it. Let me aim to update more faces and other different stuff Heh.

At times, i will spam IG videos/ IG feeds very frequently because this is another way to keep my parents or rather my Mummy updated on how i'm doing. Apart from that, i really love capturing pictures to keep it as memories. To be frank, i do look back on all my IG post and reminisce the beautiful memories. Very surreal feeling ~

To conclude my 2019, it wasn't a smooth sailing year for me but it is a year where i have learnt a lot. Experience is always the best teacher in life. Thankful for people who have always standby me during my downtime. Really appreciate to those lovely humans out there! I just hope for a peace and happy 2020.

Okiedokie, ending this super long post soon. Since i realized there's many new readers here i shall do a short intro post in my next updates (probably!). Shall go keep my Mummy accompanied before heading home.

Wishing everyone a Happy 2020! Enjoy your last 2019 to the fullest 💓

J

Chapter 1402 - Last Sunday of 2019

It's been 3 weeks since i last visited ahgong. Somehow i really miss him. Super looking forward to pay my next visit to him!

Today is the last Sunday of the year. Spending this day with the in laws as our belated Christmas gathering cum year end catch up session.

#chewchewyfood prepared fried wanton for everyone. 

Here's the recipe for the dish: 

1) Fish paste

2) Ground pork meat

3) wanton skin 

4) plain water to seal the wanton

5) half spoon of light soya sauce which the burdenchew here accidentally added a tablespoon of soya sauce to mix the ground meat as i was chatting with HubB. But heng ah, i have to mix the fish paste together and it wasn't taste that bad! 

before sending the wantonnnns for a deep fried! 

tada! FIL get to try this first and he told me this is a thumbs up! Yay 😛

Okay, 不可以骄傲 i'll take this as a positive feedback and will try to improvise more recipe for it. 

smoked duck bought by CIL at TPY. This is freaking nice ok! i'm gonna get this for my family to try soon 😙

group photo with the spontaneous family! 

小开心 when 2 of his relatives mentioned that i have slimmed down a lot heheh. But hor, my weight is gaining! Or maybe im being sensitive with the digit i see everyday. Yours truly is being paranoid here cause i will tends to weight myself every morning and every night before i sleep to ensure that i don't exceed my KG. 😏 

Innisfree diffuser never failed to impress me. This is the second bottle but different fragrance which i got it from them! 

Short update and i will be back for my finale post for 2019. Stay tuned! 

J

Chapter 1401

Happen to know that my blog statistics has been increasing drastically! Omg, whoever is here please drop me a "Hello" at my tagboard located at the right sidebar okay? Am so curious who are the ones who has been visiting my humble blog! 😚

Managed to clear my left over half day today before 2019 ends. Spent my half day with my Mummy and then home to spend time together with Daddy as well. Poor Daddy fall sick .. Hopefully he will recover real soon! Met up with Mummy and had our lunch at Bugis today. Went shopping and did some praying at Kwan Yin temple, always felt so good after giving thanks at the temple 😃

Is there something you want to tell me before 2020? 

Posted this on my IG story and received a few responses from my friends! Was quite surprised to receive response from expected people. Just trying this for fun cause currently is on the social media trend! Just wanna act one hip to keep up the trend 😛

One of the sweetest responses from one of my LDR friend! a little brief background of our friendship; we got to know each other since primary school days but lost contact after we are parted to different secondary school. You know Friendster was the most up to date social media back then hence, we get in touch again through this platform. We started to have meet up session but sadly no photo was taken as selfie, wefie or whatsoever was not our trend/style back then. Regretted x10000000000000! We have no much photo together to be honest. I shall go dig out our primary school photo and share with you guys somedays. haha.. Okay so, she was migrated to US during secondary 2. I was so sad because she was or rather she is my bestie! We have been wanting to visit each other but due to budget/time constraint, plan was hindered. I really can't wait for her to come back to SG very badly! I would love to fly over but you know is too expensive for me to do it so soon 😞 I really really miss her a lot! And yas! without fail she will alwys remember my birthday, sending gifts to my office and always the first to wish me! Sigh pie. Please let me strike toto and i will fly there anytime soon. 

from a colleague. though i always lend a listening ear but i know am not a good advisor. I thought i might have 敷衍 her in a way but seeing this make me feel kinda touched yet feeling bad at the same time. i will continue to be a good listening ear and will try my best to give the best advise as much as i can! 

from one of my family member! I have been waiting for this girl to come my house for baking session but she is just too busy! HAHA. I think we need more time for each other like how we always spend time together in the past. Growing up means commitment and adapting adulthood life. I really miss those carefree days! 

The best advisor at work whom i can ever ask for! 

always felt so good after sharing my thoughts and doubts with her. She might not be the best advisor but i do feel much better chatting with her thereafter. Really appreciate for her support and thoughts all these while 💓

from someone whom i never expect to comment. 

we were like haters with each other but when seeing this really makes me feel so ... speechless in a positive way! 

Yayaya .. i won't deny! though am still in my acceptable weight but i gained a KG throughout this year. Im still trying hard to lose my weight to those days where i was so slimmed for my wedding. Just need that 2kg to be shed off! 

another unexpected commentor! Hehe. She has been a great advisor when comes to my TTC doubts. i just hope we could bring a good news, real soon. 

we had some misunderstanding back then and stopped contacting each other for a year plus. Not so sure why we contacted each other again last year and our friendship got stronger again! 

Somehow whom i appreciate throughout my interns days till date! 

my supportive backend throughout the past 7 months when i was still a newbie to my current portfolio. Heh

this woman is younger than me but she really has a positive, strong and mature mindset than me. I have a lot to learn from her! 

From a colleague whom i know for last than 6 months but we machiam know each other for more than a year! She has been listening to my rants and feeling even more angry than me when shyt happen! haha.. I do undestand when comes to an issue which got nothing to do with us we will try to stay netural - which i agree this is a good vibes. But due to recent issue which im the victim (thanks God i got back my justice!), i felt that some closed ones around me might feel that im always against this colleague which is not the facts. Kinda upset that they didn't bother to find out wha'ts happening but judging on the issue instead. I'm actually too tired to explain or even talk about this issue to them becuase it seem that they are no longer the ones that will hear me out but in fact thinking that i am being petty or making things worse but going into further details. (Seem like i have become the bad role in this matter. ) But it's fine because am super thankful to have those who have stayed by me throughout this saga which bothers me for 3 freaking months! Wooosh ~

Lastly, from someone whom i know through ITE days! This sweet girl here has always been there for me sliently albiet we aren't closed at all. I'm really thankful that fate has sent me such a wonderful humans in my life. 

Throughout this trend, i think i have better understanding towards myself. I know i have superb low self esteem and have always been thinking that am not good enough to anyone. But with all these little notes really allows me to understand myself even more and also allows me to see another beautiful side of all humans around me. I'm truly blessed 💓💓💓

On a side note, yours truly cooked for yesterday's dinner. 

this is beancurd with chicken breast mixed with sesame sauce and light soya sauce. No salt added!

steamed fish with ginger slice, shao xin wine and light soya sauce

Chinese green with oyster sauce! 

remember this apple drink in a can? Now they comes in glas bottle too! 

Giving  a nostalgic feel here. 

and welcoming the mouse in 3 weeks time. 

and the mouse has arrived at Chinatown. 

Sometime i feel the in laws are lucky to be part of the resident in Chinatown because they get to see my nice deco and lighting during special occasion!

my favourite furball. 

Look at the feet!!!!!! 

*kuchi kuchi* 😋

2019 is coming to an end soon and i will be blogging on my last post for the year! Stay tuned for the next updates.

Nights!

J

Chapter 1400 - JJ Lin Sanctuary 2.0 World Tour

Attended JJ concert yesterday and it was a blast! Omg .. Im a cray cray fans of him and i can't wait for his next concert liao! It was an enjoyable night and he sung most of my favourite songs but i was expecting some songs from him but it was not sing during the concert. Nonetheless, i have a great time till im having withdrawal syndrome today. I have been thinking about the concert, his songs and ... him. HAHAHAHA. (Pardon me!)

& it was also our 130th monthsary yesterday. The last monthsary of the year and it was well spent with my favourite singer hehehehe

Sharing some pictures taken during the concert for your eyes pleasure ok? LOL

Dinner with SIL & BIL before crashing in to the stadium.

we were so lucky that we managed to find a seat at Enchik Tan. Every place is filled with people and i was kinda pek check to squeeze through the crowds. Think am really aging! Hate hanging around crowded area >:(

Patiently waiting for the concert to begin .. 

I was so impatient ok. LOL

the madantory shot at the stadium. Guess majority of the people who are posting on their social media do this kind of shot. 

130th. 

the cray cray fans here. 

we were so closed yet so far! 

But it's okay at least i get to feel and see his pressence :P 

The aftermath. 

Seriously cannot wait for the next concert of his! He is super duper talented and the songs by him really 百听不厌 💓

Was so enthu and hyper yesterday. I literally spammed my IG story just to video him for keep sake. I felt kinda ps to spam my followers, but okay la, 久久一次 ya. HAHA

Thank you JJ Lin for the awesome splendid night! You have made us Singaporean proud! 

J

Chapter 1399 - Overly Attached

I used to be someone whom was overly attached to my now husband during our dating days. I neglected spending time with my family without the then boyfriend around and neglected spending time with my friends too. (how sucks i was. lol)

Looking back, i felt very regretted and sorry about it.

Coming back to this topic again because recently someone was ranting about her sister for being overly attached to her boyfriend and somehow neglected everyone around her. (Very sad truth and somehow i can relates to it)

“Die die must meet every single day”
This is quoted from her message. Despite of working in a different company and the travel distance to each other’s place is really far, the couples must meet every single night after their work. From my understanding, they are currently in their third year relationship and they are still being very sticky with each other. Not only that, they will be on the phone every single night for 3 hours before sleeping. So the paranoid friend of mine was feeling knida pissed and worried because the call will last them till 2am at least where both of them got to wake up at around 7am to get themselves ready for work. My friend and her sis went into a bad fight when this topic was being brought up.
Okay, let's name my friend as A for easy reference. 

My verdict: As a couples, it is fine for them on how they want to handle their relationship and priortise their time mamangaement. I believe they know themselves better than anyone out there. But personally i still feels that they should not neglect the care and concern showered by their family.

"No time given to A and family. Weekend was burnt spending time with boyfriend"
A was sharing that she felt super upset and neglected for the past 3 years as she has lack of time spending with her sister, not even one Saturday or Sunday was spare for her because both days were fully utilise by her sister for having time spend with the boyfriend.

My verdict: Hmm. Somehow i can relates a bit from here because i guess i have been through this but not as bad as A. I used to head out for shopping/window shopping with my sister during some of the weekend when i was still staying under one roof with the family. But somehow, after i have moved out from them, we don't have any time spend together on a weekend. Even there is any bonding session, our partners will be invovled in all the catch up session and etc. I felt kinda upset though because sometime i do miss hanging out with her all by ourselves without our partners around (something like sister bonding) but seem like this can't be carried out anymore? I have tried to hint or rather go straight to the point where i told her we should have an outing session on a weekend without partners around, she agreed but then, somehow this will never come true despite of our agreement. LOLOL. Can i say i have been moved out for 2 years and i don't remember i have a weekend time spend with her at all. Even my cousins/friends also noticed about it but okay, i have no say about this because everything takes 2 hands to clap la. then it will come to a point where we start commenting why we didn't ask if the party is free on certain dates to go out and etc. I did tried but seem like financial is always the reason to stop us from hanging out together even if is a window shopping. I feel if one has the heart to meet for a time spend, they will do it eventually no matter how budget we are for that month and we don't have to be the one who always ask for a meet up. One sentence to say - just plan and meet up willingly. I thought of setting this this as my resolution for 2020 but nope, because this failed badly for 2019 and to be honest i don't know how to improve on this 😂

Back to topic, so i told A nothing or anyone will stand by you forever. It's good to mingle around and to make more new friends in order to have a weekend time spend together to keep ourselves occupied. Till date, this is what i have been doing - Catching up with ex and now colleagues on a weekend if we are all free for the meet up session. To me, my life is not evolve around the husband but that doesn't mean i don't need him. We should learn to give our time to those who loves and cares for us constantly and not abusing them for nothing. On the other perception, since im staying with the husband and i'll be seeing him for the rest of my lifetime! So this where i should even learn to prioritise my time management for people around me. And this is where i also feel thankful to some of the ex colleagues and friends who has been keep me accompanied especially weekend when i was feeling down or nothing to do. hahaha

"Social media is all about him"
A screenshot her sister's IG and was sharing that her life only consist the boyfriend but not A or other people anymore. She will used to post picture of A and etc but 90% of the IG page is all about her boyfriend.

My verdict: I don't know how should i comment about this or rather i am not supposed to comment anything about it because that is not my social media page and we all have our freedom on how to handle and manage our own platform. For me, i love surfing and posting on instagram because i think that is the only social media where i could update all the photos which i wanna look back somedays and i really do scroll back some of the photos to reminicise those good gold days. So for me, i'll just post whatever that i feel like keeping it close to my heart. Posting it is not because for the sakes of likes, followers, attention or whatsoever but just for the sake for my own memories. I even do have a hard disk to back up all the photos which i have taken from my phone. You can never trust social media, they might closed down someday and pooof, there's goes all your photos uploaded on social media 😐

Ahh. And this make me realised that i have not been taking photo with the sister as well whenever there is an occasion or we were out together? Except for birthday celebrations. LOL

It was a long message by A and i hope i could share more but yeah, this is her personal issue and i should respect her privacy though i did not disclose who is she. Disclaimer, i did seek for her consent for me to share the above points at this little space and she agreed. She is also one of my reader la, so she should be reading this by end of today. hahahah

My overall thoughts on this is nobody will standby you forever. Perhaps we got to learn from the hard and be independance. Sometime i do went out alone on a weekend when everyone was occupied with their time. I do admit the feeling of eating out and going out alone is kinda weird and uneasy but just put on your earpiece and pretend you are in your own world will do. haha.

Just my few cents of nuts here! Please don't take it too personal ya! Cheers 👐

J

Chapter 1398

We are left with 1.. 2.. 3.. 4.. 5.. ..... 10 days to 2020! ZOMG. Time flies so fast! I have been telling people around me that this year seem to pass very fast. What a fast pace year!

As Christmas is approaching, i have been receiving gift from colleagues and friends! Favourite season! I guess i would prefer Christmas more than CNY leh. I feel that i have no more excitement towards CNY anymore. Unlike the past, i will be so excited to settle all my CNY clothing and play CNY songs enthusiastically.

Celebrated MIL's birthday this afternoon at Melban seafood. 

This is not dessert but the fried gu ru yok! Weird combi but taste really good. 

went to town area and grab this home. I have been thinking about this since last week and finally she is at my place now. I shall leave her at our car for my cuddling. Heh 

Had Christmas party with the department last evening. I was the emcee for the event and it was my first experience. i didn't do a fantastic job because i was kinda nervous and i totally have zero skill for it but it was rather fun! 

Got the third place for lucky draw but did an exchange of the gift with colleague thereafter because we both have mutal likings for each other gift! haha. So the above gift is a projector where it can be connected to our mobile and laptop while watching show. Tried this out last night and wow! It was so amazing!! Can't wait to use it to catch my Yanxi part 2 while i snuggle on my bed. HEHE

gift exchange and i got it from the sister. lol

and i was the one who kept her accompanied while she was hunting for the gift. Indeed fated, shopping for my own gift. hahahaha

HubB got this bowl mug from the gift exchange. 

super pretty! I was eyeing for this as well but it's okay, since he got it means i can use it as well Wahaha

to those who love corriander like me, please go and try this! Super yummylicius :P 

Colleagues around me almost flip me out from my desk because they hate the smell and taste of this. HAHAHAHA. Sorry but not sorry 😝

And just recently .. we got ourself a water dispenser at home after a few round of consideration. I have been eyeing for this since the day we had our renovation but HubB was saying it was to costly and it is not necessary. But recently we saw a lot of the advertisment on this product so we went to check it out and decided to go for it. 

We got the sleek version without the huge water tank. everything is so compact!

no more boiling water lo! Heh 

Last Saturday, attended one of my secondary school mates' wedding. They were couples since secondary school days and yay! they finally tied the knots last week. 

one of the sweetest couples i have seen!

so thankful for ready made traditional rice ball.

i still prefer this than those with filing in it. This is the best! 

can't wait to devour this tomorrow so decided to have it tonight instead. haha. 

Somehow, i am missing those days preparing the rice balls with Mummy. Sigh. Guess is time of the month again, i am starting to miss my parents, badly. 

then the random Hubs went to order 20pcs nugget.\

seriously, im gowing wider liao 😞

my trustee mancurist from TNA has hop over to a new place at The cathay! I can have pretty nails again. hehe 

this meal cost us $11.

adulting is freaking hard. I need more money 😩

Attending JJ Lin concert tomorrow and i am starting to feel the excitement in me! Was stalking my friends on IG who went to the concert today and trying to see what are the songs he will be singing so that i can prepare myself to have a sing along session with him tomorrow. HAHA. 

Yours truly here is a hardcore fans of him yo ✌

J