Reflections

It is important to take time to reflect.

When you reflect, you think about what has passed and the highlights that come to your mind are often memories that are significant.

These memories could be happy moments, instances of uncertainty or times eliciting strong emotions.

I am happy to say that my weekend has been filled with joyful memories.

Friday

Gerald brought me somewhere new for a dinner date. Despite us being together for 4 years, I was still very excited about our date (and of course I was excited about the food). I didn't know where we were going and the suspense made me quite exhilarated. It's things like this that keep our relationship interesting and fun. Now I'm really motivated to find more places for our future dates!

We went to this place called Don Your Personal Pie Club, which specializes in serving awesome chicken pies and Crab bee hoon. Strange combination? Definitely. Acceptable? Yup yup yup! While I didn't find the pies overly fantastic, I truly enjoyed the Crab bee hoon. I ended up eating most of the crabs since Gerald was too lazy to dig out the meat. It was a very simple cafe concept with minimum decor. Very typical for a cafe meant for the office lunch crowd. I found it comfortable though... nice enough for a casual Friday dinner. I was happy that we could find a table in the corner of the cafe, away from the rest of the diners. We could make funny faces at each other without being stared at =D  

I just love spending time with him eating and talking about silly things. He always brightens up my day.

Oh and we tried dessert at this romantic restaurant at China town central square. It's an italian place called Riccioti. Loved the alfresco ambience with dim candle lights and nice soothing music in the background. I think it's a great idea to eat dinner at an affordable place, followed by some drinks and dessert at a more atas place. It's really cost effective hehe. We enjoyed the nice atmosphere at a mere price of $10 only!

Saturday

I finally went for body attack with Amelia! Woohoo! I actually survived the session... what a sense of achievement! The people in the class were amazingly fit! Almost everyone looked fairly toned -_- I reaaaalllly need to buck up.

Spent quite a bit of my Saturday with my sister. =D She was so nice to accompany me for brekkie and lunch. Just can't imagine my life without her. She's one of my role models actually. She works hard at school and juggles her 3 kids tremendously well. She pampers herself and always remembers to spend time with her hubby and family. I don't know how she does it! And she really is a happy person who is contented with her life. She really knows how to live without bothering about the small stuff. I must really learn from her.

Anyways, I tried out this famous Thai restaurant amidst the bedok heartlands. Had some nice bonding time with Gerald and his mum, who shared some of her worries and concerns with us. Hope our listening ear provided her with some comfort. It was heart warming when Gerald thanked me for spending time with his mum. It's nice knowing that you made a difference.

Sunday

My mum called me in the morning and I was happy to hear her voice! Wish I could be spending time with her and my dad in Shanghai. Hope I have the opportunity to do so soon. Can't wait for her to be back so that we can have our daily brekkie together again.

Gerald and I met up with Wei Wei for our wedding planning session. It was sooo fun cause we started discussing about how we could use elements from Magic The Gathering for our wedding. It will be a dream come true for us to draw inspirations from both LOTR and MTG to conceptualize our entire wedding. We want something to reflect who we are and what we love. While I'm not an avid MTG player, I'd love to see it as part of our wedding since it's something Gerald truly enjoys. It helps that I love all things fantasy and magical!

I'm super excited to use MTG as a theme or channel to share our love story as a build up to our wedding. I'm not quite sure how but I hope we get there! It will be a pretty amazing beginning. 

Happy Thursday!

I just came back from bodycombat, hai-ya! It was such an awesome session and I had so much fun screaming out loud.

Now I'm sitting in my room, all smelly, thinking about my day.

My mum's off to Shanghai and I think I'm gonna miss her. No more car rides and yummy brekkies for the next 10 days *pout*. It's always so nice to have her company although I don't say this to her. Whilst she gets on my nerves at times, my mum always listens to me when I'm bitching about things. I always feel better after I share my complaints. Gotta really love her <3.

I had a pretty good Thursday I must say. Met Anna for a happy lunch! We pretty much sneaked out of office for quite a bit heheh. Oh well, we all deserve a short *cough* break sometimes. We caught up as usual... sharing our woes. This is something that I can't do with my current colleagues at work... there's just this wall between them and me. I just don't feel comfortable pouring out what I feel with them. I guess it's really the case of no chemistry. I'm just glad I have other friends whom I can spend my time with... and be myself. It really keeps me sane and happier.

It's always the people that matter eh?

Oh another highlight of the day! Sophie showed amelia and me a photo of the cutest baby hedgehog ever. It made me smile!

I wish I could have it as a pet. I even told Gerald to get it for my birthday!

And here's the pic kudos to Sophie!

 

 

Change

I woke up this morning wanting to feel more passionate about life. I wanted to break out of my routine and do something different today. I somewhat succeeded with some baby steps.

I spoke more to my mum during our car ride to work. I tried to really listen to what she was sharing, I realize that my mind gets easily impatient these days such that I have to make extra effort not to screen out certain things.

To be more productive at work (irony since I'm the productivity manager in the company), I made lists and felt accomplished ticking my tasks away.

I actually went around chatting with my colleagues too! So not me. But it doesn't hurt to change. Since I spend so much of my time at work, I should build relationships... I can't possibly be an island on my own. *sigh* How I wish I had a team though. It would be so much easier. I will be able to discuss my work with my team mates... bond... go for happy lunches together. This is totally making me miss my ex team mates!

I shall make more changes in the days to come! More specifically, I hope to inject more humour and light heartedness into my life. I have grown to become too serious -_-

However, there's one thing that I will not change. My soft spot for romance! As I was watching my Korean show 'Love Rain', I realize how I can be sooo sucked into the entire story. All the sweet moments, despite the tendency of being very typical, always make me smile. I am all for the idea of falling and being in love.

1...2...3. I am in love.

This quote just came into my mind:

Life's too short to be worrying about meaningless things.

Gathering my thoughts again

It's been almost four years since I've blogged.

Over the years, I seem to think and write lesser. Complex thoughts seem to elude me now. Perhaps my subconscious has been trying to protect me from confusing myself. Maybe.

In any case, I have decided to blog again. I need to keep my mind alive lest I become too dull. Sometimes I find myself spacing out ever too frequently. That to me, is not a good sign. It's always better to ponder, wonder and dream.

Hmm I think I just blanked out again. Ahhh. *shakes head*

I shall just end here today. I hope for more thoughts tomorrow... and let it be a beautiful day.

I suddenly realized that routine sometimes blinds you from seeing the simple and fine things in life.