Time flies.. sorry we have not been updating the blog but generally, we are settling down also and life is getting boring...so there's not much to update. :P
However, this coming CNY will be our first - and yes...we'll have to give ang pows for the first time!! It will also be cross-visiting for the first time. So I'm looking forward to it. It seems like we can still take ang pow in the 1st year of our marriage...so mai tu liao!!
We've also just been promoted to Yee Yee and Yee Zhang because my sister just gave birth to a cute little baby boy on 1st Feb. His name is Tim Soon.
Sunday, February 3, 2008
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Fatigue!
Jgal -
After about 5 months of furniture shopping, Kboy and I are suffering from furniture-shopping fatigue! If there is a scientific medical term for it, let us know so we can go to the doctors and apply for MC.
We've finally completed furnishing our house with the latest purchase - a TV console from a shop in Furniture Mall. Haven't been into Furniture Mall for the past 6-7 years i think, and that place is still the same!! Like a smaller scale IMM, it houses various furniture brands and shops, featuring almost every type of furniture you can think of, from modern, to classic, to woody chinese looking pieces, to upmarket ones, mass market ones, beds, curtains and carpets etc... Bryan Wong and Mark Lee should go to these places for their Bai Jia Le program!!
We also purchased bedside lamps from Balestier. You have to shop around, there're more than 15 shops and prices vary quite abit (of course quality is different la) but about half the lights in our house are purchased there.
Jgal was also pestering Kboy for a Christmas tree, as its always been Jgal's dream to put up a christmas tree and decorate it, just that in my former home, there was simply no luxury of space. Kboy gave in eventually, and if you come round to our place this Christmas, you'll see a very nice tree around :)
After about 5 months of furniture shopping, Kboy and I are suffering from furniture-shopping fatigue! If there is a scientific medical term for it, let us know so we can go to the doctors and apply for MC.
We've finally completed furnishing our house with the latest purchase - a TV console from a shop in Furniture Mall. Haven't been into Furniture Mall for the past 6-7 years i think, and that place is still the same!! Like a smaller scale IMM, it houses various furniture brands and shops, featuring almost every type of furniture you can think of, from modern, to classic, to woody chinese looking pieces, to upmarket ones, mass market ones, beds, curtains and carpets etc... Bryan Wong and Mark Lee should go to these places for their Bai Jia Le program!!
We also purchased bedside lamps from Balestier. You have to shop around, there're more than 15 shops and prices vary quite abit (of course quality is different la) but about half the lights in our house are purchased there.
Jgal was also pestering Kboy for a Christmas tree, as its always been Jgal's dream to put up a christmas tree and decorate it, just that in my former home, there was simply no luxury of space. Kboy gave in eventually, and if you come round to our place this Christmas, you'll see a very nice tree around :)
Sunday, November 11, 2007
1st House Warming
We just had our first housewarming today (11/11). Initially it was just a simple catch up and dinner with Chin Yi, Jamie, Kelly and Janet. But since they came with gifts, then i suppose its considered a housewarming!! :) Not too bad, we all had an enjoyable time, except that we had a little electrical problem halfway into our steamboat dinner...the extension plug decided to call it quits. You can imagine our panic when we realised that we had no other extension cords. Eventually, we shifted the whole dining table nearer to the powerpoint itself, otherwise I think we might have had to cook all the food on the stove instead.
Since moving into simei, both kboy and jgal are enjoying our new home and convenience. It takes jgal 30mins to get to work now, (5min walk to mrt, 15min train, 10min walk to office) and for kboy, he's enjoying the fact that we can just pop into Eastpoint to get stuff (5min walk). No need to drive or find parking :)
We are shopping and getting new furniture every week. Its like weekly outings to Ikea is a norm for us now... but we are still searching for a few essential pieces before we can hold bigger house warming parties. Well, those of you reading this and wondering when you'll be invited (or want to be invited) drop us a comment :) We'll try our best to slot you in before Christmas!! (wah...dua pai!! hehee)
Since moving into simei, both kboy and jgal are enjoying our new home and convenience. It takes jgal 30mins to get to work now, (5min walk to mrt, 15min train, 10min walk to office) and for kboy, he's enjoying the fact that we can just pop into Eastpoint to get stuff (5min walk). No need to drive or find parking :)
We are shopping and getting new furniture every week. Its like weekly outings to Ikea is a norm for us now... but we are still searching for a few essential pieces before we can hold bigger house warming parties. Well, those of you reading this and wondering when you'll be invited (or want to be invited) drop us a comment :) We'll try our best to slot you in before Christmas!! (wah...dua pai!! hehee)
Friday, November 2, 2007
Back to work
Kboy says
Its back to work for us. I still am feeling a bit jet lagged, and have a slight fever. Think I caught something from london, the weather there was appalling, as usual! Good thing was, I got fewer emails than I expected at work, so managed to clear the backlog quite fast. Still, its a bit of an effort to get back into the swing of things.
Jgal is now sitting next to me with a mask on ... watching our new TV that we bought yesterday. Cash and carry from Parisilk. Good deal, got a free TV with the new new TV.
Married life is looking good ...
Its back to work for us. I still am feeling a bit jet lagged, and have a slight fever. Think I caught something from london, the weather there was appalling, as usual! Good thing was, I got fewer emails than I expected at work, so managed to clear the backlog quite fast. Still, its a bit of an effort to get back into the swing of things.
Jgal is now sitting next to me with a mask on ... watching our new TV that we bought yesterday. Cash and carry from Parisilk. Good deal, got a free TV with the new new TV.
Married life is looking good ...
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Friday, October 26, 2007
Adeios Espano!
Jgal -
Its our last day in Spain today! Having spent the last 10 days in Spain, I´ve grown acustomed to Spanish lifestyle....this means that i must have a siesta after lunch nowadays, and wine with every meal!! But Jgal is also missing her Sliced Fish Bee Hoon and Tom Yum soups...Need to get a Singapore fix soon :) Madrid is also really cold...its 11 degrees even though the sun is shining brightly! Miss home...
Kboy -
Last wrote from Seville just before we were off to Granada. Granada and the alhambra started off badly with terrible grey and rainy weather, no shelter, a bad ticket booking experience so we had to pay twice for entry into the alhambra. Luckily the palaces and the generalife gardens were spectacularly beautiful and the sun made a brief appearance in the evening. It was then off to Madrid on a late evening train, where we were almost conned by a rogue taxi driver! Good thing jgal had her wits about her and quickly ran to the hotel to get some help from the receptionist, who managed to talk down the driver!!
Madrid is a big city with the usual shops, museums etc ... Getting a bit of traveller fatigue - just had our last meal of paella and sangria!
Its our last day in Spain today! Having spent the last 10 days in Spain, I´ve grown acustomed to Spanish lifestyle....this means that i must have a siesta after lunch nowadays, and wine with every meal!! But Jgal is also missing her Sliced Fish Bee Hoon and Tom Yum soups...Need to get a Singapore fix soon :) Madrid is also really cold...its 11 degrees even though the sun is shining brightly! Miss home...
Kboy -
Last wrote from Seville just before we were off to Granada. Granada and the alhambra started off badly with terrible grey and rainy weather, no shelter, a bad ticket booking experience so we had to pay twice for entry into the alhambra. Luckily the palaces and the generalife gardens were spectacularly beautiful and the sun made a brief appearance in the evening. It was then off to Madrid on a late evening train, where we were almost conned by a rogue taxi driver! Good thing jgal had her wits about her and quickly ran to the hotel to get some help from the receptionist, who managed to talk down the driver!!
Madrid is a big city with the usual shops, museums etc ... Getting a bit of traveller fatigue - just had our last meal of paella and sangria!
Monday, October 22, 2007
Honeymoon II
Kboy -
In case you´re wondering, we´re having quite a bit of difficulty finding internet cafes that allow us to upload photos, so far no luck. Also, all the cafes come with limited timing so have to quickly check mail/update the blog/etc in like 10 min!
Seville is hot hot hot - unfortunately both the famous cathedral and the royal palace were closed when we arrived so we decided to change route to Jerez - home of sherry. Had a good time touring the grounds and tasting the sherry. tomorrow its the Seville Alcazar and then, off to Granada ...
Stephen, our photographer put some of our wedding photos on his blog :) http://lyrical-moments.blogspot.com/2007/10/child-like.html Have a look!
Thanks Stephen!
In case you´re wondering, we´re having quite a bit of difficulty finding internet cafes that allow us to upload photos, so far no luck. Also, all the cafes come with limited timing so have to quickly check mail/update the blog/etc in like 10 min!
Seville is hot hot hot - unfortunately both the famous cathedral and the royal palace were closed when we arrived so we decided to change route to Jerez - home of sherry. Had a good time touring the grounds and tasting the sherry. tomorrow its the Seville Alcazar and then, off to Granada ...
Stephen, our photographer put some of our wedding photos on his blog :) http://lyrical-moments.blogspot.com/2007/10/child-like.html Have a look!
Thanks Stephen!
Saturday, October 20, 2007
Honeymoon
Jgal - We are in Spain and having a great time!! Thinking of uploading photos but don´t think we have enough time given that we are at this Internet cafe and have only a few mins...
Last night we took an overnight train from Barcelona to Cordoba. Jgal can´t sleep cos the bunks smells musty :(
Kboy slept like a pig... So far the trip has been really fun and the weather is fantastic, ranging around 15-20 degrees. The old cobbled streets and churches are really lovely too!! Jgal is eating and drinking too much on this trip!!!
Kboy - Yup lots of reasons for a great honeymoon
1 Clear blue skies and lots of sunshine, t shirts most of the time
2 Great food, lots of tapas
3 Wine is cheaper than water. We have not yet had a meal without alcohol (except for breakfast)
4 Great architecture and great scenery (and great company!)
5 Zara Mango, etc.
Some links of places we have been to :
http://www.tallerdetapas.com/
http://www.senyorparellada.com/
http://www.sagradafamilia.org/
http://www.montserratvisita.com/
Last night we took an overnight train from Barcelona to Cordoba. Jgal can´t sleep cos the bunks smells musty :(
Kboy slept like a pig... So far the trip has been really fun and the weather is fantastic, ranging around 15-20 degrees. The old cobbled streets and churches are really lovely too!! Jgal is eating and drinking too much on this trip!!!
Kboy - Yup lots of reasons for a great honeymoon
1 Clear blue skies and lots of sunshine, t shirts most of the time
2 Great food, lots of tapas
3 Wine is cheaper than water. We have not yet had a meal without alcohol (except for breakfast)
4 Great architecture and great scenery (and great company!)
5 Zara Mango, etc.
Some links of places we have been to :
http://www.tallerdetapas.com/
http://www.senyorparellada.com/
http://www.sagradafamilia.org/
http://www.montserratvisita.com/
Sunday, October 14, 2007
Happily Married
Kboy says -
Its been a really fantastic weekend, busy events and everything has just seemed to rush over! Thanks to all our helpers who have really looked after us and made sure that everything went smoothly - there were so many details but you guys took care of everything! Thanks also to Wedding Present, Justin, Keeren, Robert, Eric & Chris who really made our day special for us :) And also thanks to all our guests who took the time to share our joy and were so generous in their giving!! ( We counted ang baos till 1 am on Mon morning ...)
Jgal says -
Can't believe it's over at last! However, we throughly enjoyed ourselves throughout the weekend and will have many happy memories to last us a lifetime! Special thanks to our families and friends who were involved in making sure everything was smoothly carried out. We didn't have to worry at all!! We're off to Spain tonight for our 2 week honeymoon. Please cover us in prayer for journey mercies and protection against pick-pockets!!
Its been a really fantastic weekend, busy events and everything has just seemed to rush over! Thanks to all our helpers who have really looked after us and made sure that everything went smoothly - there were so many details but you guys took care of everything! Thanks also to Wedding Present, Justin, Keeren, Robert, Eric & Chris who really made our day special for us :) And also thanks to all our guests who took the time to share our joy and were so generous in their giving!! ( We counted ang baos till 1 am on Mon morning ...)
Jgal says -
Can't believe it's over at last! However, we throughly enjoyed ourselves throughout the weekend and will have many happy memories to last us a lifetime! Special thanks to our families and friends who were involved in making sure everything was smoothly carried out. We didn't have to worry at all!! We're off to Spain tonight for our 2 week honeymoon. Please cover us in prayer for journey mercies and protection against pick-pockets!!
Also, our wedding pictures will be ready in 2 weeks so we will update it here when we're back! Watch this space :)
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