Sometimes he can be that anal about things that he rather quarrel about it than make peace.
HMPH.
// What are some of your husband’s pet peeves? He has a ton and I can probably make a Top 100 list out of it.
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Is this still true? Probably true for cleaning the air, but other than that, it is undoubtedly not better by train these days.
Spotted this at Suzy’s Tumblr and love it. But she shared that the company mentioned in this clip is owned by McDonalds and I had my doubts on the sustainability of their farming practices. Despite that, I do wish someday, we will all give back to Mother Nature and turn to how farming is practiced in the past. Green and sustainable.
Imagine if you have to face your bosses every single hour at work.
Imagine sleeping at your office, your factory, your store, or your shop after every work day from dusk to dawn.
Imagine if your boss ask you to work every single day, and every weekend, every public holiday and from dawn to dusk.
Imagine if your company does not even offer to pay you your regular daily rate for every additional day you work on every weekend, every public holiday and from dawn to dusk.
Imagine if there is a law to grant you one day off in a week, the only saving grace to bring you out of insanity, but the rest of the world cries no, including your boss.
With all that, you are only left with a job which you have to face your bosses every single hour at work, to sleep at your workplace after work, to work every single day and to collect a misery pay at the end of the day.
If you can imagine yourself working in such an environment, then you have every single right to pour out your grievances on how tough it is to manage your daily life without a domestic helper. If you cannot manage without them, jolly well pay the additional day she works in a week. The salary they take home is not even a fair compensation; it is almost like modern day slavery. If you cannot afford to pay her, get help from the government, work harder, or work out something fair which both parties can agree on. If you are “concern” about their social life, it’s all about respect, motivation and drawing the lines. It is like managing a staff isn’t it?
Sorry, I just need to rant.
I grabbed this from my sister’s FB page and thought it’s oh so true! I face this problem less often because I get to wear this fugly uniform when I work at the Frontline . So for me, it only happens twice a week. Hah.
My MacBook Pro died. That’s why I’m not blogging. Perhaps I will use my desktop tomorrow. Bah.
I hope the guys are not all stressed up before Valentine’s day because when I logged in Facebook today, almost every attached/married women are putting up all the pictures of their “surprised” grandest, largest, most expensive bouquets which their love ones gave them or sent it to their office! To my horror, one of them even took a picture of all her colleagues’ flowers and commented that hers is the biggest and most beautiful! Is this a day for bouquet comparing competition?
Don’t be mistaken, I am not a Grinch of Valentine’s Day, I appreciate that today is a day to remind us on our love ones (husband, friends, families, dogs etc) but I don’t see the value in spending $100 and $200 dollars for a bunch of flowers when they usually cost half the price on other days. I love flowers and I do appreciate flowers but spending $100 – $200 dollars on a bouquet? I love money more! Haha.
You can call me an unromantic, but I believe romantic acts need not be expensive, it just has got to be creative or heart warming! I personally feel that it is more meaningful to give flowers on special days like Wedding Anniversary or Birthday (HINT HINT). Haha. But surely not on an over-hyped Valentine’s day? I bet after 6pm today, all the pictures of food at expensive restaurants serving up “V-Day special set meal” will come flooding through the FB walls! Haha.
So to share what we did to commemorate Valentine’s day, here’s what happened. Initially he placed a reservation at an expensive French restaurant, but thinking that it is our first Valentine’s day as a married couple, we will do something special (and to save some bucks after bursting our banks on honeymoon and wedding).
We decided to celebrate on Sunday evening and were all dressed up for our dinner which was held at Parc Lumiere’s private alfresco dining space. Haha. Our balcony!
All dressed up in suit! I can finally use the little vase I lugged home from Korea for our candle light dinner. Haha.
We danced to our church wedding compilations, ate this awesome rib-eye steak which was grilled to perfection with home-made teriyaki sauce (no less), drank a good red, and ate this amazing tiramisu made by yours truly (Which I will share the recipe in the next post)! The best part about dining at your own balcony? You don’t have to wait at the taxi stand in your heels with half of our population in town, or get caught up in a jam on your way home, or drag your tired feet back after dinner or be caught in a resturant with cheesy love songs (which happened to us one year), or listen to other patron’s talking about random stuffs (which also happened to us one year when the restaurant increased their seats for this occasion)! Instead, we made out immediately after dinner! Haha. Isn’t it awesome! We both agreed that this was the best Valentine’s day celebration ever!
//I’m assuming my readers are all of age here. Heh.
This beef was cooked to perfection. Medium rare, tender, tasty and all so awesome. I tried taking a picture using flash. but it freaking looks like a piece of chicken. Heh.
Flash kills it all.
My amazing Tiramisu!
So guys, you don’t have to fret on what flowers to buy, which restaurant to go, what present to give, it is the little things you do that touches your girl’s heart (excluding materialistic girls)! And you know what? People at Google agree with me too! Have you seen their mini-clip above their search bar? I took some screen shots in case some of you missed it!
This boy tried giving the girl every cliche Valentine’s day present possible but the girl is unmoved.
The boy gave up and ended up joining her in rope skipping and immediately the girl stopped and gave him a hug. (Moral of story, do what the girl’s enjoy doing! )
So spread your love around, to your friends, family, pets, alien friends and what not! Have fun!
As for today, we decided to eat in to avoid the crowd with some home cook food and have an in-house mini movie night! Haha. Yes, maybe we are behaving like an old couple already.
Anyway, Happy Valentine’s Day!
Ooo. I found the link! Haha.
How did your Chinese New Year house visiting gone? For us, we broke our bank giving red packets for the first year and combat nosy aunties asking personal questions.
As per every year, every one of a certain age group and various life stages will have to combat these nosy aunties who swoop around like a hawk asking personal questions.
- When you are 18 years and above, single without a partner in sight, they will ask “Hey boy, where is your girlfriend?”
- When you are 25 years and above, attached but not married, they will ask “Eh, ah boy, when you all getting married?”
- When you are 25 years and above, married but without kids, they will ask “Eh, when you all having a dragon (may change depending on the zodiac sign) baby?”
- When you are 28 years and above, married with one child, they will ask “Not planning for a second one?”
They have endless of questions and until you met their expectations of being married with two or more children, they will come hounding you down!
This CNY, we also met and talked to his cousin who recently conceive and is three months pregnant (congrats! And yay, all attention on them for the first 15 minutes and the glare came back to us swiftly!), made us think of our baby making plans. *STOP WONDERING* we are not ready to have a child just yet! But they got us thinking to start prepping our body for the future! According to them, it is not as simple as, “Let’s make baby”, “pssszt”, “Ooo, I’m pregnant!”. It’s unlike what’s shown on TV, people don’t just get pregnant that easily and by the time you are “ready” to have a kid, your body may take another 1 year to be ready, then another 9 months to put the baby together in your tummy and you have just spent two years before the baby is ready for collection. So this year, I will be busy exercising ( I hope!) and eating healthy for a baby perhaps 1 to 2 years down the road.
For the record, I don’t want a baby now, at this very moment, because we still hates each other at home with all the annoying habits we each have. It is taking a long time to get use to each other. I say give us 2 years, no, maybe 20 years. Also, for some selfish reasons, I want to maintain being hot and desirable (I’m assuming I still am. HAHA) and he is still very much a child inside! I can’t handle a big baby (he will say the same of me) and a tiny baby at a time!
When I’m looking at rows and rows of Christmas chocolates at supermarkets, I can hear them calling out to shoppers “Pick me pick me!” as though a puppy at a pet shop yearning for attention! Their calling is especially loud these few days with Christmas approaching! I hope they can find a owner before their value turns to nothing after Christmas!
I must be mad! It’s either work or my secret chocolate addiction! Haha.
// I cannot bring home any more chocolate because we have tons of it and Communist Ng will kill me!
With inflation and rising costs of living, Singaporean’s dreams seem harder to reach.
Even DINKS like us (Duo Income with No KidS) possessing a good degree can no longer afford a car and probably taxi rides in the near future.
First, high COE price is dashing our dreams to enjoy the flexibility, freedom and impromptu escapes to inaccessible but wondrous places around Singapore.
Then, increasing taxi fares limit us to places accessible via bus, MRT and bicycle. All these changes were announced and to be implemented in less than a month. No one cares about the public anymore.
This simply means that young educated Singaporeans can no longer afford a car (and taxi rides). Sigh, I do hope that our dream to own a condominium in the future will not be too far fetched with all the various “market cooling measures”.
It’s a depressing news for those who worked hard and aspire for these little luxuries in their lifestyle. Boo.
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