A night and day of celebrations

We celebrated the night by splurging on a sumptuous dinner at The Mandarin Hotel. The spread was pretty good and the quality of food was great! What did we celebrate? Plenty…

First off, to the husband for his super performance in running the IPPT. Not only did he shave off much time from his run compared to the last two years, he also won much pride on a side wager with his colleague. WELL DONE!

Next up, we got a letter that we’d been waiting for with bated breath – the letter from the property developer updating us that we will be getting the keys to our new home by August 2011! YAY!

Thirdly, while it’s some weeks late, I reckon it’s better than never. I officiated the dinner as a celebration of our wedding anniversary. The ambience in the restaurant was rather nice, and rather romantic. So I think that it was truly appropriate. Highlight of the dinner (besides the food), was that Kate was as usual, the joy of our lives. She is such an angel who can eat and feed herself already, and she can sit in the high chair for a rather long period of time, entertaining herself with dinner alongside her (greedy) parents!

Finally, the last part of the night was rather somber, while the husband and I ploughed through some heart-to-heart, but I think it’s still a celebration of sorts as communication is always a good thing.

My triumphant moment

I'm secretly skipping in my seat now! I have figured out, on my own accord, how to sync the phone to the computer as I needed to transfer everything that's important out (only the pictures really, as those are most precious!) as it keeps saying "no space". I tried ringing Sony Ericsson to request for help but the line never got picked up. Hmph.

So anyway, for someone as tech-idiot as I am (the husband will get it) to have figured out and achieved what I wanted/needed to do, it is a huge triumph!

Hoorah!

Singing songstress

She can sing. A little off-key, but she tries. She hums, she makes different pitches, she started off completing the last word of each sentence of songs; her first being "Twinkle Twinkle"; then we experimented and discovered that she knew pretty much most of the nursery rhymes that we have been singing to her since she was born (Humpty Dumpty, See Saw Margery Daw, Hickory Dickory Dock...) and one of her favourite songs has got to be Happy Birthday. She fills in the last words with Papa/ Mama/ Yeye/ Yiyi/ etc.. it's terribly cute.

Last week, my mom taught her this chinese song "Wei Wei Bu Yao Pa" and within a week, she began singing the song on her own! Of course, she didn't manage to say every single word clearly, but she definitely hums and has caught the gist of the lyrics so that we know that it's that song that she's singing.

How clever!

Here's one to sum up all the loose ends

I’ve been feeling rather uninspired lately. I cannot seem to put my feelings into words properly and I feel boring. Perhaps it’s because I’ve been busy and I haven’t had the time to *think*. So now that my work event is over, I want to take this opportunity to just pen down the loose thoughts floating about in my brain.

It was my wedding anniversary - our 3rd - on 24 March 2011. I wasn’t too delighted that the husband and I didn’t get to spend the day together. Not only did we not have a chance to celebrate it with any fancy dinner, we barely saw each other on the day! The husband started work early (or was it me?) and he ended work very late so we basically did not get to see each other that whole day. I remember I was feeling grumps that day because I was meant to finish work at a normal time but there were delays so I ended up working late and I even did a boo-boo where I waited at a wrong bus-stop for the bus that doesn’t reach there.

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Unpleasant, really. The silver lining on the cloud is that I spent that tragic evening sms-ing my best friend (that’s what friends are for!) about my pathetic state and how I was feeling terribly grumpy that I wasn’t spending my anniversary with the husband. Ah well.

I sent this MMS to the husband with an accompanying message along the lines of “This is what I’m eating alone now. Sucky that we aren’t together”

He responded from his work stint with this MMS & his message was something like this “mine is worse than yours”

So that marked our 3rd wedding anniversary. Nice.

Last Friday, we had our family dinner at 313 @ Somerset. We had German and after that meal, our family of 3 decided that we didn’t fancy it very much. Kate expressed her preference very strongly as she picked food off her tongue and played with it on the table. . I mean, it was nice & fine, but I guess it’s something we’ll keep to occasions or when the mood strikes only.

Kate was dressed in her new shirt-dress from H&M and I think she looked very nice!

Hi!

One

Two

Three

Four!

And to end this entry on an even happier note (who wouldn't be smiling after looking at the series of pics above?!), here's a picture of my daughter who is already a collector at her tender age of 1.5yrs old.

Ta-da! I'm trying to build my furniture collection to help Papa and Mama for our new home!

Us

Movie date - time spent together is worth more than the "process" of the movie-selection and the actual show. You planning our run & accompanying me to climb was great and much appreciated. The phone-plan-saga. The bike ride, hot and short, brought back much memories of us before... we have come a long way.

Busy like a bee

This is what I've been busy with the past few months. My maiden event at the new work-place. It was quite a ride leading up to it, not only have I learnt the true technical skills required to execute an event, I also learnt a lot of 'by the ways', let's call them soft skills; that are equally as important for survival.

The whole thing went relatively well, and I had quite a good time. Special thanks to the husband who made an appearance - thanks so much for your support!

Levi's Music Challenge

So the day after this event, I was knackered but since it's so tough to meet up with old pals, I made the best out of it by bringing along little Kate.

Eating at HOUSE

She happily integrated herself within a new family - these were diners at the same restaurant sitting behind us!

TGIF!

Rainbow

You are the rainbow in my life, dear Kate.

In the bible, rainbow is "a reminder of God's promises" (paraphrased by the sister); which rings true for the husband and I because we both wanted a child and we both had secret pacts within our heads & hearts. Rainbow is also a thing of fleeting beauty, the fleeting in reference to fact that it is beautiful but scarce; thus precious.

My personal story is that Kate is my treasure/pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

Yesterday evening, we caught a beautiful sight.

Amidst the trauma that the world is going through these days, with so much unhappiness and deaths and despair going on, I feel love and warmth and faith in my heart as I admired the miracle of nature with my little 10.7kg gold bar.

I'd caught the treasure.