Rants and Opinions

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.

Urgh. Cramp on a light fixing day can be quite a chore.

After my wisdom tooth extraction, I am perpetually hungry. I can’t wait to eat a cow but my gum hurts like crazy. I think this is like a force-slimming-program for me.

// Researching about fennel, artichoke and cabbage for work is not helping. URGH.

I did my root canal yesterday. Painful! Next week I’m going for my wisdom tooth extraction then another 3 sessions of root canal treatment. GOSH.

I just got an incredulous bad news about my uncle. It makes my daily worries seem so trivial. Sigh.

Sorry for the lack of post! Just got back from Church Camp at Batam yesterday and today I’m on MC! Jason brought the flu to camp and he is patient 0! Having fever, sore throat and body ache now! BOO.

This month went pass too quickly!