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.