Tragedy at the Escalator

Something bad happened today…

Today as I’m going back to office after lunch time, I saw this Malay teenage guy with his grandma walking slowly. They stopped in front of the escalator and it seems like the grandma is scared to ride on the escalator. The guy tried to show his grandma how to take on the escalator. After few tries, the guy happen to accidentally ride on the escalator without the grandma. So the grandma is still stunned at the foot of the escalator.

And there I was, standing behind the grandma. And trying to be a good person, I wanted to help her ride the escalator. So she ride on the escalator while holding my hand. But somehow, both her feet is not at the correct place (I suppose they’re at different edge of the escalator) so she lost balance and I tried to pull her but her hand slipped off mine, and bhum! She fell down… I think she knocked her head a bit against the escalator too.. Luckily someone quickly stop the escalator after that..

I was so shocked when she fell down.. and feeling really guilty that I can’t pull her such that she didn’t have to fall down… and also for trying to be a good person but then… the grandma fell down.. I shouldn’t have tried to help her get to the escalator.. Maybe if I just let her wait for her grandson to come back from his escalator ride, she’ll ride on the escalator successfully.. *sigh* feeling so guilty now

But luckily too, after the incident, the grandma seems to be perfectly alright. She can walk and say that she’s fine.. But still.. I’m feeling bad coz indirectly, she fell down because I wanted to help her

 

A Baby & His Balls Collection

For a 10.5 months baby, I think Vio has an amaaaaaaaazing collection of balls. Yeah, his most favorite toys now are balls. He looooooves to throw balls around, catch them, and throw them, and catch them… and go on and on and on..

Going to catch my balls

Leeeet me try to count.. Hmm.. I think he has at least 8 medium-big sized balls.. (those are the ones I can remember for now) anddddd (that’s not all!) at least a dozen of small ones… wow.. that makes it 20 balls or even more!

Busy playing

A note: the photos above are not “showcasing” all of his balls. Some are still scattered somewhere around the house and has yet to be “found”..

And he has THIS many balls is because not long ago, a neighbor that Vio often meets almost daily in the park, gave him 4 balls. 4! at the same time! and when my parents & brother were here last month, they also bought him about 7-8 balls.. ahaha and he just love it!

And talking about balls, Vio can say “ball” now.. OK actually it sounds more like “bah” instead of “ball” but anyway… we think he’s trying to say “ball”..

And he can also say “bewwhh“.. Make a guess on what it means? Haha.. it means “bird“! (He’s referring to the birds sticker on my bedroom walls).

 

A Scrapbook Class!

I just joined a scrapbook class yesterday at Laines. It’s my 2nd time joining a class, the 1st one was at MWL where we created 3 LOs using MME Bloom & Grow collection.

Yesterday I took the Yummy Scrummy class, which is a mini album class using Fancy Pants Mixed-Media album. Initially I’m not too sure whether or not I should join, but I have a $35 class voucher expiring end of the month, and I felt like joining a class. But when I saw the sample, it seems so simple that I’m not sure whether or not to join it. But well, in the end I did, and I’m glad I did!

Yeah the project itself was quite simple to do, but I had fun doing it. Learnt some new technique: painting the chipboard and do glitter embossing. That’s the 2 things I won’t do at home, coz it’s messy messy messy… ^^

Just to share, this is the front cover of the sample album… Mine will be about the same, just without the stitching.. I’ll be too lazy to stitch.. hahahaa… My album will be used for Vio’s 1st bday party album.. so will be 2 more months before I upload my finished “product”

Yummy front cover & messy sb table

And talking about classes, few weeks back, when I was at laines registering for this class, I overheard an ang-moh asking the cashier: “Can I register my maid for classes?“  I was like… “huh?!?!?!” and thinking… why don’t you register me instead?? haha.. that’s one very lucky maid hor?

 

A Wedding in a Sunday Afternoon

OK yeah I know, this post should come before the previous post. But anyway, as have been mentioned in the previous post, we went to attend a wedding at SFA on Sunday afternoon. It was Willy & Nadya’s wedding! The wedding was quite memorable as they’re such a fun couple, they did a Latin dance in front of everybody! Wow.. something that I think I don’t dare to do.. hehe.. And they also decorate the place with lots of balloons.. which I think is very smart! The place looks quite different with all the balloons..

Noo.. don't bring the balloon near me!

And we also met many other babies there… there were Caelia, Iggy, Allen, and Claire (Yulia’s daughter)!

Handsome + Pretty = Nice Match!

Overall the party was great! And Savio was happy too as he gets to eat the strawberry, kiwi, and peaches from the tart (and mommy gets to eat the plain tart leftover).. hehehe… but it was so hot outside that Vio was so tired when he reached home..

Who's the most handsome one??

 

Ten Little Toes

Ten Little Toes?

Oops now that I realized that it looks like only 9 little toes instead of 10! Haha! Dun worry… the 1 little toe must be “hiding” behind the quilt! Kekeke..

The story goes like this… One lazy Sunday afternoon, after going out to attend a wedding party that I haven’t written about yet, Vio was sooo tired, he slept right after he had a shower. AND of course, as usual, he doesn’t like to sleep alone. He’ll keep crying every pre-defined time interval (which is about 10 – 15 mins) if I put him to sleep in his own cot… And based on many many past experiences, he’ll sleep soundly if I put him in my bed…. But since Vio’s getting active nowadays, we’re always scared that he’ll wake up without crying, and fell down from the bed! So…. *sigh* I need to accompany him sleeping.

Not that I want to sleep, really. I was just lying there beside him to keep him company. And after close to 1 hour, I started to get bored. 1 hour lying down (and not sleeping or doing anything at all) can be rather boring, yeah? So… I started to snaps Vio’s sleeping photos (again)!

And I was in sephia kind of mood..

And so.. I captured 2 of Vio’s favorite sleeping style!

Sleep Style #1: following mommy

Sleep Style #2: the whole bed is mine!

So.. which style is cuter?

Oh luckily.. not long after, the Taiwanese drama Ai started.. so I can watch it while keeping watch at Vio in front of the door.

And we thought that he’ll only wake up the next morning. But alas, at 8:30pm, right when the drama was in the climax, he chose to wake up (after close to 3 hours sleeping!)

Ah.. talking about sleeping… I also measured his height.. and it came out to…. 83 cm!!! Woah.. that’s fast…

 

Mini Album – Genting

Wow.. it’s my 4th mini album so far!! 4! OK it might not be that much, but for me it’s quite a lot.. hehehee… the 5th one is still in the planning stage (read: the photos are not yet chosen and printed!) :)

For this mini album, I made my own 6×6 accordion album! So it means it can be opened from either side.. The materials are mostly from Cosmo Cricket Earth Love collection that I reaaaallly love..

Supplies:

• Papers: Cosmo Cricket Earth Love
• Embellishment: Cosmo Cricket Early Bird chipboard & stickers, Thickers accent, Maya Road sheers, Making Memories Spiral Journaling Book, 7G stickers, Prima flowers, Pink Paislee Fetching rub-ons, Fancy Pants rub-ons
• Alphas: Thickers

 

Family LOs

Hmm… I guess I must be in a family-kinda mood as my LO for this “batch” is all about family

simply irresistible

Supplies:

• Papers: K&Co Wild Saffron & Studio K
• Embellishment: K&Co Wild Saffron Tag Pad, MME Die Cuts, Making Memories Jumbo Brads, Kaisercraft Rhinestones, 7G stickers
• Title: MME Rub-ons

grandpa, grandma & me

Supplies:

• Papers: K&Co Studio K, Cosmo Cricket Early Bird, Fancy Pants Delight
• Embellishment: K&Co Wild Saffron Tag Pad & Chipboard buttons, Hambly stickers, Umbrella Thickers accent, 7G stickers
• Title: Thickers, Doodlebug alpha stickers

times like this

Supplies:

• Papers: K&Co Studio K
• Embellishments: Basic Grey stickers, Hambly Overlays, 7G stickers, K&Co Blue Awning Journaling Pad

 

Captured Moments

There are 2 expressions of Vio that I can’t capture using my own digital camera. I’m so happy that our last photoshoot can capture these 2 valuable expressions..

This is the first one. It’s a photo of Vio closing his eyes tight while throwing something. Oh yeah, he likes to do that. He will close his eyes tight tight if he feels scared of doing it, such as throwing things around, opening the door to see daddy’s behind it. Isn’t his expression cuteeee?

Haha.. this is the 2nd one.. it’s his crying face!! Look at how he can arch his mouth to form a n-shape.. kekekekek… it’s also difficult for me to capture his cry.. well.. if he’s crying, i can’t possibly be “busy” taking photos of it right?

 

Our 2 Years Celebration ^^

We had a worthy-to-remember anniversary celebration yesterday! And the day began with.. something sweet!

A Card & A Cookie

Hmm.. Isn’t the cookie looks just yummy? I got it from Famous Amos, but we haven’t tried it yet til now actually.. And in response to this, pi was commenting “why 2? Isn’t it our first anniversary?” -_-    Apparently he kept thinking that it’s our 1st anniversary since Vio is about to turn to 1 year old! Haha…

Anyway, that’s only a small “surprise” I’ve prepared.. the real one is coming sooon.. We went off from our house at 10+ am, and I didn’t wanna tell pi where we’re going.. Let him be curious.. hehe.. isn’t it more fun? And so.. we stop at Bukit Batok MRT Station..

Pi: Are we going to St Mary church?
Me: No.. we’re going to CSC..
Pi: (A bit frowning) Huh? What do they have there?
Me: (Giggling but still no answer)

Only when we reached CSC, I finally told pi: we’re gonna have a couple spa! Hehe.. Yup yup it’s our first ever couple spa!! Have always wanted to try it out, but normally it’s quite expensive. But since currently got a 1st-trial promo from UOB, I decided to try it out, and doubled as a gift for pi

We had our spa at The Ultimate, located at level 5. The place was nice! And the spa was biiiiiiiiggggg.. at least much bigger compared to other spa I went to (with the exception of True Spa, which was also biiigggg..)

Couple's Spa

We chose to have a Balinese massage with red wine. It was niiiiiicee.. (But few hours after, both pi & me are feeling aching on whole of our body.. hehe…) And the couple’s room have a jacuzzi inside it, so we soak in it after the massage (with red wine too) for about 20 mins. Oohh.. it was so comfortable. I wish they let us stay in the jacuzzi longer! And it was so romantic too, as the light was dimmed and the jacuzzi have many different light colours.

After the whole thing was done, both of us feel so sleepy. If only they provide a bed there so we can sleep! But of course they don’t.. And luckily, they didn’t hardsell the package to us.

So after that, we continued our “journey” to Westmall, where we had our lunch at Swensens, completed with the sundaes! Yummy yummy!

Sweet Treats

And not to forget, I think I should show the newest “accessories” to my-otherwise-boring cubicle…

A Gift from My Darling ^^

..and what is that, you wonder? It’s a digital photo frame! It can show jpeg files from SD card or USB drive. Pi said since I love to look at Vio’s photos at home, he’s giving me this one so I can see Vio’s photos at office too. Ooohh.. I love it! Thank you darling =)

Happy together - 2 years

 

2 Wonderful Years – Reminiscing Our Wedding

Eternity begins at this moment

Today is our 2nd wedding anniversary. Oh my, is it 2 years already? Feel like yesterday we’re still going for our prewedding photoshoot, choosing the photos, scouting for wedding reception place, getting upset from chasing the invitation cards that keeps getting delayed.. Oh yeah, a wedding needs a lot lot looooots of planning! Though it can be quite stressful, I kinda miss those moments sometimes..

And also remembering that our “dream” wedding is supposed to be in SG, we’ve almost signed up to a wedding lunch at Hilton hotel, as I like the pool located just beside the reception area.

I still remember the worries a few days before the wedding: will everything be ok? who will be the main coordinator? will we have enough time for photo taking in the church? will we be late to the reception? will the cake look nice? how about the church deco? and will the choir sings nicely? and so on and so on..

And I also still remember the arguments we had for the wedding.. Should the wedding be in sg or jakarta? How many people will be invited? What’s the budget for this and that.. And also just few days before the wedding, when pi refused to take videoshooting for the groom’s side because of time limitation.. Oh my, how I worried at that time. Wouldn’t it look funny if the video only have the bride’s side? But thankfully we managed to resolve all the arguments and all sides are in a win-win situation.

Despite all the “troubles” in wedding preparation, the overall experience (especially during the day itself) was jubilant! At least as I look back to that day, the memory that I have is definitely a good one

remember this..

And of course thank God everything went smoothly.. All my worries can  settle by themselves. Everything was haaaappyy.. Well, the number of guests coming to the party was way out of our expectation. Since it was such a hot date (until we can’t even get an affordable wedding car as all has been rented out and almost all of the reception places are booked for dinner, so we have to settle for lunch instead!), I was surprised to see the number of guests coming to the wedding. I hope there were enough food to entertain them. One thing for sure is the vegetarian and ”gubuk” food was not enough.. But then again, it will never be enough as people will be kiasu to have them first before the main course! 

And a funny thing happening in the wedding was.. we bought 2 confetti for the wedding toast. Well, we bought the cheapest we can find in Mangga Dua.. hehe… and during the wedding toast, when the MC was saying “Wedding… Toast!!” …………… then it was… silence…… BOTH confetti are not working! haha.. Aiyoh…. a good lesson learnt.. don’t buy the cheapest thing around…

And my beloved bouquet..

My Wedding Bouquet

Oh oh.. Isn’t it a pretty little thing? I love it a lot….. But sadly it’s no longer with us now.. I believe my sister already sent her to the rubbish bin loooooong ago.. 1 day after the wedding, one of the roses (in the middle somemore!) was “running away” from it’s friends! Haha.. Yeah it drops.. so sad.. Anyway, no use crying over spilled milk.. Let’s remember another happy little details..

Ah.. how about…

St Ursula Chapel

..the chapel in which we exchange our vows! Look at how beauuuuutiful and classic it looks.. I’ve always wanted to get married in this kind of place! And with the pretty pink-white decoration (with minimum budget btw), it was justttt.. peeeeeeeerrrfect!

Well, other than the fact that the sisters that manage this chapel had a looooot of rules.. cannot use electricity for the video lighting.. the decoration must be done at this time to this time.. must pay for admin fee.. cannot do many things.. but since i love this place so much, we still choose to held our holy matrimony there. And little did we know that there were so many people coming to the chapel. There was no enough seat since the chapel was quite small.. Some people were standing outside of the chapel liao.. Oh well, it means that many people wants to give us their blessings right? :)

Wow.. what a long post it is… And there are lots of other details that I haven’t put up here.. I guess I can’t possibly put all here right?

A Sweet Kiss