Thursday, September 03, 2015
The year of 2015
I'm getting worse in keeping up. I realised I've not written a single thing for 2015.
Giving you a little of what has happened so far, this is a photo taken in Jan this year. We have since shifted, it is coming to 10 weeks since we have shifted and we are comfortable in our little crib. It is simple but it was something we wanted. Staying on our own also give us freedom. It is really a world on our own and we can do whatever we want. The space is big for just the both of us and we are enjoying it. I have too much time in my hands though. As usual I guess, ever since my career change. When I made the switch, I have made plans, some plans did made it, some didn't and I'm still waiting for it to come. Talking about job, it is still a wonderful job although there is not much to say about the team. I also turned older just like every other year. It has never occur to me when I was young that eventually, I'll have all these things coming. I have a loving husband who loves me and someone I love to stick to. I have a loving family although at times, they can be weird. I learn anyway, to love each other's flaws and to accept, I try to be understanding although at times, it does get trying. I am still learning to be content with what I have. This is me just trying to be groovy. The pen is beneath a glass coffee table and my hand above the glass table. I'm famished now and waiting for my friends to come. They are eternally late and I do not know why I will want to believe them in the first place.
And... I am going to abruptly end. :p this place is also horrible. I have been sitting here for the past 30 minutes and no one actually cared about me. It's Da Paolo at the Club street by the way. All the staff smokes outside, not knowing that the smell does travel inside the eatery since it is so small. I wonder am I the only table around tonight. Now, I hope the food will make up for it, because the passive smoking is sure going to harm my lungs. They sure can smoke non-stop. Labels: emo elmo, happy happenings
JOanne thought hard on 6:49:00 PM.
Wednesday, December 31, 2014
The end of 2014
It's late and I can't get to sleep. I must have nap too much this afternoon. Work has officially stopped since Xmas eve and I've been lazing since and that's the beauty of my job. The flexibility and time I have to myself makes leaving painful. I actually feel kinda hungry now.
Since it's the last day of the year, I thought I pen something. It has been an eventful year. I got married and I turned 30.
That is us outside the Registry of Marriage after the drama saga we put ourselves in. Somehow, both of us were so relaxed about the whole thing, we got the opening hours wrong. I bet I'm the only bride to have rushed in, in slippers. All the brides were dressed to their nines and there I am, lost and totally panicking that I'll not be getting my wedding certificate. So much so for being easy peasy~
Marriage has been pretty much the usuals. I now wake up to this person I vow to love. I have seriously never been happier, this man understands me and he always feed me. Haha! That's super important to me. We talk a lot and we still do and we bicker like non-stop, we just irritate each other to the maximum and it is super fun. I feel so lucky because I realised this man turns my day around and make everything else seem negligible. No matter how bad a day becomes, at the end of the day, coming back being in his arms changes all things and I become happy again. I'm still trying to be a good wife and this is a journey I've chosen.
And... That's the biggest thing that has happened this year - me marrying the man I love. :p
As I aged, I'm also learning to love. I'm also learning to be content and learning to cherish what I have.
So, randomly, these are some of the photos. I have an additional family now.
That's us, both families coming together in one trip. I really like such trips because we get to come together and both the mummies can talk.
I rarely talk about my work here but in 2015, I think I really have much to work on. Many things are at stake now and to be frank, I'm not exactly happy where I am. I have limited control but I've never subjected myself to anything less. Being not ambitious is one thing but I've never allow myself to be short-changed in any way, so the same goes for this time. If I have to fight, then, I will. Hahaha, I know a plate of failed waffles to present my work is not entirely suitable but this plate of waffles was done by the kids and this best sums up my job. Furthermore, the waffles are made in Seoul.
:p totally random pic to end the post. It has been a year filled with bizzare news. Planes went missing and then, there were irrational people who went on a massacre and shootings. Maybe the world is turning crazy from those spinning on the axis.
Totally cheesy but I wish for world peace for 2015 and for the people I love to be safe and happy. See you in 2015. Labels: emo elmo, happy happenings, new beginnings
JOanne thought hard on 2:47:00 AM.
Sunday, May 18, 2014
Someone took me off the shelf
I do not know how I put it but I got married...
(Continue from another day) I'm at the hospital now because the hubby is undergoing some minor process now. We have been married for three months now, no, no three months anniversary.
I'm sort of trying this blogger app now and it seems so much more user friendly than last time. Back to being married, things is more or less than same except that I stay in a different house now and I don't get to see my family that often. For awhile, I have this missing-home syndrome so at every opportunity, I'll drive back and laze around at home. I'm slowly getting used to it.
Let me show you some wedding pictures! Ok. Haha, lazy pig me but the point is I really got married. :p the honeymoon was the highlight! It was so much fun and I finally got myself inked. Ok. At Venice. And I turn 30 and need a new NRIC. It was my first time in my life spending my birthday away from my loved ones and I was getting kinda emotional. I think back of the family I have and the husband beside who went through lengths to let me be in Italy at that moment and I just got so overwhelmed, so with the alcohol and some tears, I look like that. I feel so grateful for all the love that I have received and I feel so lucky.
The second decade marks the most number of changes in my life. Things progress so fast after 21. From a kid, you explore and you work and you learn. Both in terms of life experiences, knowledge and love. From a graduate to working outside and then changing job to where I am today, I bet I'll probably have lots to tell the 21 year old me. In love, I'm grateful to those people who I have met and probably are mean to. I was young and ignorant but they eventually lead me to knowing what I truly want and need in a relationship. I really hope one day, we get to meet again and I get to tell them how I really feel.
It is a key because I hope I get the liberation I want. The freedom from within to reach to my own piece of paradise. As I turn 30, I learn, contentment is the key to happiness and freedom and I hope I remember that always :)
Till the next post, I wish you good health and take good care. :)
Labels: emo elmo, happy happenings, new chapter
JOanne thought hard on 4:38:00 PM.
Tuesday, September 04, 2012
Random Ramblings
It was been awhile. I know. The war is finally over. Now, I rest a little before the next war comes. Well, there has been a little rest there and then, which explains why I see today as taxing. :x I am exhausted and do not feel like doing anything anymore... I mean just for today. I have worked hard. :x This also mean that I have turned a little tweeny lazy. :)
Blogger has a new format (at least it is new to me). I realised I have three drafts saved which I cannot remember if I have published them eventually. The first one was titled 12 days 9 nights in Anatolia. It was a blank draft but I supposed I was going to write about my trip to the Anatolia. Well, the happiness probably didnt last long enough for me to remember to go back to the post. :) Before that was a post titled "A friend." It was a very short post and I talked about chatting with a JC friend (I shall named her "A"). I talked about how I wasnt that close to her but yet, that night, we share the same pain of losing someone very dear and close to us and how our boyfriends (then) cant understand what we are going through. Guess what? We both have changed our boyfriends. Haha, I dont think it is funny and the changing of boyfriends has nothing to do with whatsoever we were upset about then, but, it is just funny. We had this dinner where we had all our boyfriends to come along then which A did not join us. We took a group photo which I think it exist in my email, years down the road, :x we are still friends, in fact, better than before but the boyfriends have all go away. Well, except one of them who is still married to the same guy. (looks left, looks right) I have no idea if this marriage was going to last but I hope eventually, both of them will be happy.
The third draft is about the same bunch of people whom I am talking about above. We were all at Chalk. I cannot remember the event but WR was there and that was also the period where I was an angry free woman and L was in this demure white dress. The fact is the photo did not capture how she sat that night. :p
Talking about how things have changed over time. I think I wrote a thousand times about the divergence and convergence of paths but that is how things are. Things can never stay the same. If you have asked me 8 years earlier, I probably cannot tell that Love was the one. That this boy in my class who wants to go back home to take jacket for his girlfriend (Freezing in the LT) was going to be of someone important in my life 8 years later. Of course, we never know what is going to happen 8 years later, but you get what I mean.
On a completely different note, look at how much Ms Shernice Giam has grow. Mommie was trying the massage and she wants a part of it. Now, she wants a part of everything. She will follow you around and try to get to the rooms, she mimicks everything you do.
I have posted a picture of her way before when she was a baby. Today, she still does this. :) The difference is, instead of crawling, she is standing.
Totally random but a colleague gave me this because she went to the States. It is so timely. I have cruched on the chocolates and the figures at the same time these few days. *sweats*
Hahaha, the birthday cake to Love. :p
He got caught by the BIG 30. :p I have wanted to book a chalet and make it see like it is a 21 years old celebration but he was so dead against it. :p
Had a very simple dinner with his parents at Saveur. Not fantastic and probably will not go back again. :x I guess it is not worth the long wait. We had a little dinner at Coastal Settlement too where we cut a little Salted Caramel Cake. :p Not fantastic too and it was way out of the way.
Pleeeenty of food pictures in my camera so I thought I should share a little.
In case, you have forgotten how I look like. :p
I know I am completely random. I started off with drafts and all and it just doesnt flow after that. :p These random things make up my life now. I have learnt to take a step back and look at what I have and I am contented. Sometimes, just going to the toilet to shit, hahahaha, makes me so happy and contented. :x The person behind those drafts forms a part of me and I am glad it did.
Now, on a completely random note, I am going to end here. :p Meeting XJ for a swim! :) Take care and I will write more. (I think so)Labels: emo elmo, happy happenings, Random happenings
JOanne thought hard on 5:26:00 PM.
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
A year has passed...
One year since I joined this organisation. I still have no idea what I am going to achieve here or do here but I know that, it has been a mixed-feeling journey thus far. Time spent with the students are most of the times, wonderful. It is just a short entry, with pictures! In the very first time, I got myself into an orientation camp. Not as a participant but as the advisor but I get camp tee-shirt! Yeah!
Under my desk, things are getting also a lil' bit crowded. :p
I am doing more reading than ever. Definitely not my fav because I prefer non-fiction but now, this has become part of my job. Boooo!
Sometimes, the job also include a little burning. :) I havent got burnt for many many years and somehow, I thought I have been immune to the radiation.
Love also got me this!
Over the weekends, somehow, it starts to bloom and it look like this:
They dont really look well so I got rid of the tulips! haaa, look so much bettttter!!!!!
Someone has been taking my photos while I am sleeping.
Here is my new toy to the family. :) From Love
Got into a car accident. Yes, for the first time in my life. Thank goodness, no one was hurt and the car suffered a little injury.
And, if you have forgotten how I look like ;)
This is Love, we were at east coast road and this little place serve some do-idea-what-relax food hahaha.
We also went to Genting because there were free rooms. Not fantastic getaway but oh well, I was greedy to begin with so... I thought he looks good while playing this ha
This one day we had a mini celebration with everyone!
This was more chaotic because it was Ah Gong's birthday! We cant squeezed everyone in so everybody take turns.
Grazville (I think that is her name) came to Earth! :) She is the mei mei to Xzavier, Treveze and Edagyr! A little princess, somehow I think she looks like Treveze.
I have also taken up tennis recently with Love.
That is my lil' bit and not flowy update! I want to go home! I smell flowers!
:) Take care! Labels: birthday, happy happenings
JOanne thought hard on 6:17:00 PM.
Thursday, March 15, 2012
On a Thursday...
I was born. :) I am working today! OMMMMMGGGGG!!! Hahaha. I realised for all my life, as long as I can remember, I dont do anything on this day. When I first started working, on this day, I will take leave. When I was schooling, it is the school holiday. I have never distributed goody bags because there were no classes. When I went to NUS, I will ta-dah~ SKIP school hahahah! :) Ho-seh ley~ BUT today, I am freaking working! WHYYYY???
Anyway, I will not come if I dont have to. Anyway, the day is almost over (now, you know why I dont do anything.) To me, birthdays are wonderful and it is only 24 hours out of the 365 and a quarter day. I am blessed with wonderful friends and fantastic family. Like I have mentioned previously, love can never be enough! :) Some pictures before I pack and go home?
 Love is exceptionally generous :p Hahaha, I have wanted earrings for the longest time (it is just as long as me wanting tattoos :x) Love got it for me! Seriously!!!!!!! Love max! Hahahah!!!
Was greeted by this in the morning when I came in. Heeee, my makan group is so nice and sweet. They even brought me out for lunch! Awwww~
 Qin Ai De gave me this on Tuesday. Like I said, feeeeel so loved!
 My annual friend, Eddy, and King bought me out for dinner. :) Lovely catching up and again, feel so loved. They are coffee person and they went ice-creaming with me hahaha. This 8-flavoured xiao long baos are something real new. Foie gras xiao long bao was one of the weird ones but the thing is I cant even taste it. Maybe it was not foie gras after all but oh well, chocolate truffle xiao long bao? :) You go try it, its at this restaurant in Ion.
 Ah Ping brough me a hazelnut cake, it was cruchy and it was good! :)
 It is not yet 6 and I am going to leave some evidence here that I went to eat snake. It is just today! I just received an sms from a friend who said he is going back now. (-_-)''' So I am not the only one. I want to go back to my loved ones! :)
Take care!Labels: happy happenings
JOanne thought hard on 5:23:00 PM.
Monday, February 27, 2012
Of love and everything that tugs at your heart...
I have to be off to be blogging and there, sickness somehow got me again. 2 days down. The kiddos are having their examinations and I was supposed to chiong marking but the papers are all in school. I like to teach. When I go for lessons, I am always happy.
:) Plenty of pictures to share.
I am not an engineer per se but I like all things simple. I like the fact that one plus one is equal to two just like how I love you and you love me. There are no "ifs" and "buts", no "her", no "him" or anyone else but just "you" and "me". Things will change but not all change work towards your favour. Sometimes, things do not change just when you want them to or they might change against your favour. The human brain? Fortunately/Unfortunately, it is complex and we do not know what we are wired for or what we are NOT wired for. We cannot predict, assume and tell thoughts (yet I still often do). No idea what I am talking about? So do I! :) That is Ms Koh for you. :)
This month, some important decisions have been made. Suddenly, long plans become my thing. :) I am a short term person and I always have been. While we cannot tell the future, I guess we can always try to make some. ;)
Take care and till the next time. Labels: happy happenings, Random happenings
JOanne thought hard on 3:11:00 PM.
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