Season of joy? (26/26)

24th

baby booked out on xmas eve afternoon while I had work, met him after work at bugis because we were going to meet up with my girlfriends for xmas eve dinner at the new cafe, The Lab. unfortunately, most of them find the food NOT okay. Their food lacks flavour and were not warm when served...? 

we went to the Loof after dinner to chill! shared a bottle of Moscato with a few and the rest ordered other drinks.

did i mention he got me a rainbow rose, which i actually asked him to get many weeks ago for our anniversary hahahaha!!! that rose really cheered me up and made my christmas :) it's a really beautiful bouquet, i like the way the flowers were arranged hehe.

gotten roses from him for our anniversary too, so my room really smells like flowers now! i have 5 bouquets in my room, most of them already withered, but i can't bear to throw them away :( the bouquet he bought LAST christmas is still in my room too! it's super pretty cuz they have glitter on them! but i know i'll throw them away someday, just not now :(

anw, we went home after loof while the rest went to catch a movie. didn't want to catch the movie cuz i was pretty tired and baby would sleep during the movie (101% confirm plus chop), so didn't wanna waste the money!

25th

woke up on christmas day right beside my baby, and that's the greatest feeling, to be able to spend festive occasions, just being together. the 'events' are a lot lesser than last year, but i'm contented with a rainbow rose hehe

prepared to leave house to visit the Doraemon christmas tree because he wanted to! (Doraemon fan there)

i look so skinny here i love it!!! i think my bloated face was just because of my nearing period hahaha, didn't have to edit my face :p

after taking pictures, we took a walk around Raffles Place, shopped at H&M and redeemed a free donut! went back to my house for christmas dinner with my family!!!

my baby niece Giselle, she's so much easier to hold now! "less fragile" in a sense hehe and she has double eyelids now!!!!! my pretty niece xx

love the way she lie on me!!! so in love with this baby girl x

my brothers and my boyfriend hehe

baby told me he was actually looking forward to the dinner albeit still nervous, hearing that really makes me happy hehe

went back home after dinner, and we made muah chee together again!!! i think it was better this time round~ hehe watched The Walking Dead while eating it. started on TWD few days ago since he didn't download the new shows' episodes anymore. it's actually quite nice but we always watch show while eating, and that's not a good idea actually. i would feel queasy whenever the gross scenes appear, it makes my stomach churn :(

26th

he booked in on friday morning, woke up with him and sent him off at the door step. used my phone for awhile since i got up and couldn't fall back asleep... decided to sleep, and then i received his call, telling me to bring his shoes to the LRT station i'm like OMG i'm gonna go out in my just-woke-up-state??? LOL and so i rushed to get him his shoes and couldn't fall back asleep till very much later, about 8am before waking up at 9am for work.

it's week 26 out of 26! he has somewhat completed his course, and his bunking in is on the 26th. so coincidental~ i started out from week 1 and here we are, at the end!

met him at jp to have dinner and to go back to my house to take some clothes for the weekend! watched TWD back home and he fell asleep, while i finished it and stayed up till about 3am :/

27th

so i slept in the next day... i woke up when he woke up but i couldn't wake up fully, i kept falling back asleep. and when i woke up again, i didn't see him and his towel was back hanging in his room (he finished showering), i wondered where he went to, i unlocked my phone and i saw this:

somehow i knew there was gonna be a note/message left in my phone. i smiled and then fell back asleep LOL!!! till he came back with a fresh hair cut and breakfast!

prepared to go out to get the outfit and present for Reyna's birthday.

and that day wasn't exactly good.

attended Reyna's party at night and i had expected it to be awkward. but she's damn sweet cuz she kept coming over to me instead of all her other friends, to make sure I didn't feel that awkward. I guess cuz her friends were in groups and I was alone by myself with baby.

it was really nice seeing her again! and she looked really pretty in her birthday dress although she acts the opposite of pretty hahahaha she's hilarious

we took photos together, the "official" ones, but i forgot to take one with her alone T__T

till the next time i see her.... (in May) i'll remember for sure~

cabbed back home cuz there were no trains left :(

28th

slept in on sunday too, woke up, had brunch at home, he did a cover of I'm Not The Only One, and then we left to collect his uniform at BPP... damn suay my TOM came while we were out, and he had to buy my 'feminine hygiene item' for me, then we walked back home.

and the rest of the day was... not worth mentioning at all.

there are a lot of happy memories created the past week, but one bad memory would destroy everything. idk if i'm upset at the correct things or are they actually very trivial matters. i guess it really hurts me to hear the things i don't want to hear. do i take things too seriously or? and then maybe, it's just PMS...

i counted the days, and TOM is gonna come during my taiwan trip. and I'm already thinking if my PMS would spoil it again.

2 days till the new year, let's hope 2015 will be kind.

there were better days, and to better days ahead.

Sword and dinners (25/26)

Time check: 2:12 AM

Let's start off with baby's RCGC/Sword Ceremony!!! It was on Thursday, I met his parents and brought them there! Hehe always a good feeling to see baby waiting for us at the gate! Went into the auditorium straight, and it started about 5 minutes after! Baby's course was the second(?) group to receive their swords, and I was so nervous, my hands were cold, and perspiring in the air conditioned hall. I don't even know why I'm nervous!!! It all went very quickly, and I did snap some pictures! (Uploaded on Facebook)

The only decent pic of us... My face getting fatter and rounder sighs

And this is edited to make my face slimmer LMAO

Handsome officer liao loh!!!

Cabbed back (his) home with his parents and then went home after that!

Worked as usual on Friday, and met baby at BPP to buy dinner!

Cuz I got a boo boo :p

Had dinner and his BMT friends wanted to meet up, so we met them!

Yenloong, Manfred and Larhvin. Of which, I know two out of three. Manfred was our classmate and I got to know Yenloong through Chester... somehow??

Was telling baby not to sit in Manfred's car because... let's just say he's not a very safe driver :(

and I believe, the next time I tell him not to sit in Manfred's car, he will listen to me.

Cuz we almost crashed. Almost!

Went to Holland V's Everything With Fries!

I ordered truffle fries and skinny wings to share with everyone.

I officially announce that I will not order wings anywhere else anymore. They are all so disappointing. Love the fries though!

Manfred sent us all to CCK safely (somehow), and we reached home about 11ish! Baby concussed after that and I stayed up to watch a bit of my show because I want to be really tired when I go to bed...

Saturday was his celebratory dinner on completing his course, with his entire family!! Went to town before the dinner to get his belt hole punched, but... still too loose for him (Sighs x100) Please grow a little fatter, just one belt hole size! He's still a sweetie pie by wearing it even though it doesn't do the job T___T Went to scape to look at his covers, then took the train to IMM to meet his family, who were ALL super early...

Immediately went in to Potluck to inform them that there will be a 15pax for later. We waited for about 2 hours for that big round table... The family who sat there were 5pax, and they were hogging the seats to feed their child. It's infuriating to see the table taken up just to see one person eating. But then again, I guess it can't be helped... Babies are slow eaters anyway. 

All in all, they should just take in reservations. Period.

Make lives better!!!

Baby was so angry I everyone could totally tell, and I knew he would lose appetite from that.

And he ended up not eating much..... (Sighs)

Taken by Ranice

Finally!

Taken after like 3 shots, because he kept giving glum faces.

AND WHAT A FORCED SMILE (Facepalm)

ZANICE ZANICE SO CUTIE

"I want to do this"

The uploaded album has about 3 pictures of Zanice doing this pose at different times HAHA

After dinner, baby's sis2 treated all of us to Swensen's ice cream.

Now that I think of it, the ice cream should be meant to put out baby's inner fire HAHAHAHAHAHA

His brother fetched us home after that~

I tidied up his room a little while he played games...

And asked him if he wanted Mcd's because he didn't eat much earlier.

He said he would eat if I eat, but I couldn't eat anymore so I said no.

(But somehow I know he would get something to eat)

After playing his games, he realised he's hungry and asked to buy Mcd's HAHA

I showered, and went to buy Mcd's together with him.

He ate 1 burger meal + additional burger. And he ate it all!

Silly baby always affected FOR SO LONG by trivial matters!

Although there were hiccups for the dinner, it was still a very fun one!!! Thoroughly enjoyed myself and love taking pictures of all of them!!

Slept in on Sunday~

Wanted to go to my ahma's house to eat but decided to eat KBBQ instead!!! Super full. So full till that was my only meal... Ate a lot of meat!!! We played games, and we talked about our future. It was a nice lunch :)

It was pouring heavily by the time we were done and we bought an umbrella and left for BPP, because he needed to help his friend get something. Walked around for a bit and went back home!

By the time we reached home, it was about 530pm, and we still had 3 sets of smart 4s to fold, and a button to sew. His number 3 uniform's button was falling off, so he attempted to sew the button while I fold the smart 4s. I was very skeptical about it and asked if he know how to sew. I told him he has to tie a knot, and he said "HE KNOWS", I saw him pull the thread from the spool and starting sewing... and it wasn't even cut.....? I was like... "Did you tie the knot?" "Where?"

TO MY HORROR, he tied the knot with the needle. HAHAHAHAHA

YOU HENG AH YOU BABY

Ok lah, I hope to sew your buttons for the rest of my life since you don't want to learn from me.

Booking in~ for the last time at AFTC!! Gonna go to SAFTI soon!! And commissioning in less than a month!!!

Yeah, I "slimmed" my face again HAHA

The past few weeks I realised, this man has been getting sweeter... and I love it.

I love how he put his arm over me (human seatbelt) when we were in Manfred's car...

I love how he snuggle up to me every morning...

I love how he just pulled me into his arms, gave me a hug and a kiss, and tell me he loves me...

I love all of it but I always act annoyed HAHAHA and then proceed to push him (literally), pinch and smack his arm HAHAHAHA

and he FINALLY dreamt of me!!!! (YAY!!!)

Time check: 3:04 AM

Determined to finish writing for you to read tomorrow!

I love you baby, see you on Wednesday!!!

Thank you for the awesome weekend, I really owe it to you.

You're the best and I'm so glad I got you x

mixed feelings (24/26)

disclaimer: feeling a little lazy for "formal" writing a.k.a capitalising

on friday after work, i waited for baby at fluff and we walked over to swee choon (i never knew it was that near!) he said he wanted to bring me to swee choon to try, but yaaaaa...

A for effort lah HAHAHA

mandatory shot with the custard pau!!!!

woke up on saturday and we made a trip back to my house to take my passport after brunch! we were discussing about our overseas trip and finally decided on taiwan with his one week block leave~

we travelled to adam's hawker centre after that to have dinner! i ordered some maggi goreng special combo and he had prawn noodles.

"food hunting"

you can tell he really enjoyed his meal when he drinks the soup of the dish hahaha

i thought it was pretty rare so i captured this~

i genuinely enjoy food hunting more than cafe hopping.

there are more choices to choose from and most importantly, my man enjoys his meal.

that is what is most important to me, when we both enjoy our meals.

i've decided to scratch cafe hopping off my to-do list and go food hunting instead!

after dinner, we took a little walk, and were walking past a row of shops. all of them had such a huge difference in temperature from the exterior that there were water vapour on their glass panes. and of course, i had to draw on it! and i think i'm pretty good at writing in "mirror image"/reverse(?)

we went into cold storage and checked, and yep i've written it correctly! 

we wanted to shop at cold storage for muah chee's ingredients but they didn't have it so we decided to train back to jurong point to get the ingredients instead (and the raisin oatmeal cookies that he wanted from cold storage)

we got our ingredients and went home after that!

woke up on sunday, had our brunch and attempted to do muah chee...

well, he attempted (because i wanted to follow the recipe and use microwave, but he didn't want it)

i just let him be, he burnt the first attempt (AND THEN I WASH LO)

but the second attempt was a success! (sort of...)

you can see him smiling and i love the "dimple"

so cute

he told me to capture the elasticity of the muah chee, and you can see him side eyeing/taking a glimpse of me HAHAHAHAHA

yay!!! muah chee!! the smile on his face when we (me + his parents) said it was nice was priceless

it was so cute and i really like to see him happy! now i want to buy ingredients and make it in my own home!!!

after making muah chee, we decided to book our flights!! i feel so happy!!!!!!!!! like yes it's finally confirmed!! we also booked our hotel, and i honestly can't wait for it!!! baby, i was never upset about you having only one week of block leave, because i feel really thankful that you chose to go overseas with me instead and for making it happen. i can't wait to start planning the places to go and the checklist of what to bring!!!

but what's more exciting is your commissioning!!! i can't wait to witness you receiving your sword this coming thursday, and your bar on 17th january! i am really really really proud of you for completing the course. you pushed through all the setbacks and is going to commission as an officer, 2LT!! keep up the good work honey xx

and you look so handsome in uniform!!!!!!! JIZZED

p/s: my favourite part of last week would be.... waking up to a sweet instagram post on saturday :p

First Anniversary! (23/26)

Met my girlfriends for dinner at Chicken Up for dinner on Thursday! The food was not bad, we ordered the Watermelon Soju but it came like a whole hour later I think, we asked for it for like 4 times before someone got back to us. And it wasn't even nice... #overrated

Had work on Friday, and met potts for dinner before heading to buy my anniversary gift for my baby! Actually, I had looked for the gift earlier that week but didn't like the other brands, then I couldn't decide which to get when I looked for it on Thursday, and went back to get it on Friday.

Finally decided on the belt to buy, but they didn't have the size I wanted. They checked the system and it showed that MBS and Vivo has it, so they called them to double check, but both outlets ended up saying they didn't have it? And I didn't quite believe it because the salesperson attending to me was confused herself while checking the stocks, so I just bought the next size up, and went to MBS to check if they really didn't have the size I wanted. 

AND GUESS WHAT??

They have the size I wanted!!!! It could have save me so much time if they checked properly, then I wouldn't have to think on whether I should buy the next size.

All in all, I spent a lot of time trying to get the perfect gift for my bf ~.~

Went home after that, and he surprised me at the bus stop, with a gift. HAHAHA Which I already knew what he was gonna get! But I still loved that he came over to surprise me. Because I really wanted him to do that. I secretly wanted him to come over with a bouquet of flowers (not a gift), and wish me happy anniversary! He came with a gift instead, I'm not complaining~ He stayed till around 1am because he wanted to wish me happy anniversary at midnight hehehehe

Then it was Saturday, our anniversary! Wow 1 year passed just like that. Time flies...

Did the 52 things I love about you thing for our anniversary because a year has 52 weeks! Had initially planned on doing smtg else but this was more apt! And it was really easy though! (I didn't know it would be that easy) Shall take on something more challenging for our 2nd anniversary ;)

I bought the poker cards probably 2/3 weeks back, and started on it, when I was about done, I realised ALL the stickers I have are too big for it... So I actually bought new stickers just to do this!! I bought it on the day I met him for his nights out too, it's so funny he didn't realise anything!

Didn't wake up early on Saturday morning because I was tired, and I didn't want my eyes to be swollen for our anniversary dinner! I woke up around 1130am, prepared and went out with my gift + card(s), met him at Bukit Panjang station and went home tgt! 

His nieces were already there by the time we got home, so we ate together, then we played with his nieces. I like the part where I was reading to Zanice and he was lying behind me, hugging me hehe

Then we prepared to leave for our anniversary dinner, which was the place we celebrated our first monthsary! He kept rushing me out, and wanted to drop by BPP to get a waffle or Gongcha because he said he was super hungry. (I almost believed him but I didn't cuz he NEVER complains he is SUPER hungry) That's when I realised, he must be collecting the flowers he ordered this afternoon before I met him! (He said he wanted to get lunch at BPP, but he ended up getting nothing from BPP which is so obvious he's there for something else already)

And so, my bouquet of 3 roses! He tried to slip in the card but I saw it in action HAHAHAHA. The handwriting was horrible - because written half awake I guess. But I still love it!!! I just like receiving flowers/balloons/card a lot from him, not so much on the materialistic gifts?

So we took a bus to Dempsey because our dinner was at RedDot!

Took a pic before the food came! The strings of lights were really pretty, and they had snowflakes ornaments!! I didn't really quite capture it!

My head suddenly hurts, so he massaged my hand hehehe so sweet

And the pic with food! We ordered a BBQ chicken pizza, Ho Ho Ho Chidunken (meat loaf of duck and chicken), Cheesy Fries, and Wings/Drumlets!

I wanted just a main because I knew we wouldn't finish everything, but he said to just order so we can feast. (Awww) The pizza was really good, meat loaf not too bad (just really hard), cheesy fries were good, and wings not that good cuz it just tasted like McWings! LOL!!!

And of course, we didn't finish it...

Food coma liao

The 3 slices of pizza that you see in the picture... were left untouched HAHAHA and also, three pieces of meatloaf.

We did managed to finish the fries and wings though!

He was so sweet because I told him the beer had a really bitter aftertaste, and he immediately exchanged mine for his! I guess I don't know how to enjoy beer lah, he ended up drinking the rest of it!

He also propped up his feet for mine to rest on because of the red ants... best bf in the world

But ofc the best part of the dinner was when he praised me all night long. It feels freaking good. And he didn't just say it once, so I'm really happy, because I like hearing all those stuff :x My happiness meter basically just exploded lah.

Such a happy anniversary! He apologised for like 2 or 3 times because he thought that I thought it wasn't enough. But I thought it was perfect, and I really mean it. I thought it was the ideal anniversary celebration. I mean, I got everything man???

1) He surprised me (!!?!)

2) A gift (Which I really like and wanted)

3) He even did a song cover which I wanted him to do

4) Flowers 

5) Card

6) Dinner

7) Him (in jeans)

So what's there to complain? It was beyond my expectations actually. It was really perfect, thank you baby for doing all of these...

And I'm gonna say it again here. It's been a really wonderful journey so far, despite all of our quarrels, we gave in, and we continued loving each other. We understand each other a little better now, we compromise, and accommodate each other. I would say it's been a tough (but not rough) year, because it's my first relationship after 4 years, and becoming a Regular girlfriend, is definitely not easy. There are so many things I need to accept and adapt to. It's not just being an NSF gf, I need to do this for 7 years........... I still remember thinking if I should be your girlfriend, not wanting to risk our friendship, and I didn't want to get my heart broken again. I was scared, but now I'm glad that you came into my life. We saw each other grow, we motivated each other, we did so many things together, and created so many memories. You taught me a lot of things and I've learnt a lot being with you. We saw each other's flaws and we continued loving each other. That's my definition of love. To love all of a person, be it physical or not. Like the scars you have, sometimes I catch myself looking at it, or touching it, it makes me think of the pain you went through to get that scar, and as if by touching it, I could somehow sayang you (although I know the scars probably don't affect you at all lah) I just love all of you, everything about you just seems so magical to me, maybe except your blockhead-ness. But I hope, for the rest of my life, to create more memories with you. More of the good than bad, of course. And we must continue to do what we always do... To greet each other in the morning and to say good night every night, to post monthsary photo every month and to meet each other no lesser than 3 times a week! To more years ahead baby, many more happy years.

Next up in our life events would be your commissioning! I know you can't wait for it!

And after writing this post, I feel bad quarrelling with him over something nonsensical ~.~

Let's live in peace (kekeke)

I shall not poke your belly button this week as a punishment okay? :(