Saving up

I have come to the age where people start to open new chapter in their life, be it engagement, marriage, having kids or simply start investing in property. I'm kinda aware that the clock is ticking and next thing I know, I'm turning 30. Naturally, I know that I'm at the stage where I should know where I'm heading in the next 5 years. Marriage and kid are not on top on my list at the moment but property is.

When I started working 3 years ago, I told my self that I should buying my own property by the age of 25 but a friend of mine said it was impossible unless I joint-venture with my life partner. I brushed her opinion aside.

And now, I take back my words. The property value is flying high like rocket these day. Last week, I went to see a semi-detached double story, a regular size house and the price is RM700K, that's like more than half a million. ='=

That night I started to plan my savings and realized how careless I'm with my spending. I spend whenever I want, though lately I had been really good. But still, I should have save up those Ringgit. I used to record how much I have spent everyday in a little notebook but give up half way. I know someone who did this and thought that these people too frugal. I guess I was wrong.

So, I may have to postpone my over ambitious dream to own a property at the age of 25 but I've learnt my lesson. It is never too late to start saving up or to be frugal. I'm kidding about the latter.

v day

I agree that Valentine's Day is way too commercialized and overrated these day. That's why the bf and I opted to lay low on that day and made our own night special without being pressured into buying overpriced flowers and dining at overpriced cafe. Instead, he wanted to cook at home for us. 

The bf is never a romantic man, one thing that I've known long time ago. So I didn't expect much from him even when he said he wanted to cook for me. 

He even asked me to put on a nice dress for our dine in dinner

He made my favorite spaghetti carbonara 

I gotta say the quiet night in having dinner and just talked felt so nice. We ate our pasta slowly, took many silly selfies in between and joked around. When dinner was over, I thought that's all he had planned. 

Turned out, he hand made me card. This gesture is so old school but I really loved it.

Now I know why he insisted of asking me to take my instax along.

But I accidentally smeared his writing in our Polaroid.

Thanks for everything babe!

Oh, if you're wondering, I didn't prepare anything for him. Because Valentine's is not something that we celebrate. Heck, we don't even do anniversary. 

He loves me but make up god hates me

Down with sore throat and 3 massive ulcers in my mouth now. I had been downing a lot of Scott's Emulsion to keep my antibody strong but the flu is catching up with me :(

Not in the mood to do anything other than sleeping, so I guess I should update a bit about everyday life recently.

This kid stole my heart

I'm not a kid person before but being surrounding by cuties like Danish I couldn't help but to squeal. Seriously, Danish is such a sweetheart and so easy to take care of. I was babysitting him while he napped last week.

Mr Grumpy waking up 

But he became cheerful again when I played Pee-ka-boo with him

I have this very bad luck with makeup last week too. Maybe I've unintended offended the Makeup God or something but every suay-ness that happened last week all related to make up.

First, I dropped my overnight bag which contained my Biore Make Up  Remover Case and my compact powder. Both were shattered. I was upset about the make up remover case because I have been using it for over a year now and I hate to admit it but I have strong grip on sentimental value with inanimate object. As for the compact powder, I have been using it for more than 2 years and I have a new one waiting to be opened. So this is my chance to use the new one. Yay!

Second, I stained my almost brand new dress with foundation while getting ready. Yeah, I'm the idiot that put on their clothes before make up. Who else like this?

I tried to wash off the stain but it is still visible

Next, I've ruined my one and only MAC lipstick when capping it.

Idiot point no. 2 for me

This is what I'm getting ready for, a joint birthday celebration for lil sis and me. 

That's it for today. I'm too sleepy to write even though my head swirls with so many thoughts. Verbal diarrhea next time!

CNY 2014

For those whom read my Dayre, sorry this will be another cheat post. I miss my blog so much and feel like a bad mother for abandoning it for so long. 

This is my second year celebrating CNY with the bf. Last two years it was spent with friends at a club or yamcha-ing, but now we're going to his grandparents house as one of his family tradition. This is one of the aging syndrome wtf. Family always come first. Disclaimer here, if you think that I'm abandoning my own family on Chinese New Year, you're wrong then. My family, as in my parents and my siblings do not celebrate Chinese New Year as we're not Chinese. However, my immediate families eg. my paternal aunts do celebrate as they're married to Chinese.

CNY eve

I had reunion dinner at the Ngu's and we had steamboat which seems like a popular choice of reunion dinner this year. Yummy!

My helper to 排年货。It's more like I put it in the container and he took it out.

Full after dinner, so it's camho time

My favorite part of CNY is the fireworks when the clock strike 12. 

When I was younger, I used to sit on my roof which connects to my balcony outside my room to watch the fireworks. Something just never gets old.

CNY Day 1

Maybe it's the age, maybe it's the environment, somehow I feel so tired on the first day. 

Had the traditional red wine chicken soup mian xian to start the day

Kena photobombed wtf

As usual, the first house that we went to was his grandparents place. Then we continued to some of his relatives and parent's friends.

I put on fake eyelashes this year. I have the eyelashes from The Face Shop which I used last two years and it still in good condition. Maybe because I've only used it twice in the span of two years.

And I hate it. I hate putting on fake lashes. It makes my eyelids heavy and uncomfortable.  no more next time.

CNY Day 2

And this is the reason I slept around 3am for the past 3 days. I didn't play but acted as coach to the bf. Not bad what, I helped him win RM60++.

I immediately regretted the decision to stay up that late when I woke up with back pain and throbbing headache. But when the night came, I seemed to forget that and repeated the same circle. I spent CNY Day 2 at my own home nursing my headache. Stupid headache came before noon and I had to sleep it off afrer gulping down Panadol. The original plan for CNY Day 2 was to go to my boss open house.

  

We planned a very last minute advanced birthday surprise for my lil sis.

I bought some cookies and cake flour just in case if I feel like baking. I also bought custard filling which I thought was the whole custard thing. Only realized it was just the filling when I started making it. #domesticfailed

I swear I'm not pregnant. My shirt stuck at the counter hence the budging stomach.

CNY Day 3

初三was spent visiting open houses with the bf and his secondary school friends. This is my second year joining them so it was less awkward as I sort of know them already.

The only awkward moment was when one of his friend mom giving out ang pow and missed out me.

We went back to the bf house in the afternoon because it was too hot and continued gambling. This time it was blackjack. I bailed because I don't really like blackjack.

Afterward I went visiting with my close friends

Somehow we ended up yamcha-ing at Tanahmas. #CNYfailed

Bff

All of us. I love how bitchy all of us together hahaha

At last, we went back to Sara's place for dinner

Our delicious spread.

And now I'm just finished baking cookies with my cousins. It was a messy job but what else do you expect when you bake with a 2 years old and 12 years old. Nonetheless, our cookies turned out delicious. 

I felt so tired by the end of the day but felt like my day well spent despite some little things that upset me. I hope you guys had a great long weekend too.

Catching up

Normally around this time every year, I will talk about my birthday celebration. But not this year. Because my paternal grandmother passed away 3 days before my birthday and I was away at my kampung with my family for her funeral. And we're still in our mourning process. So I didn't get any celebration done. And that explain my late reply for the birthday wishes especially on Facebook.

Not trying a be a whiny brat but I'm so glad to be back at my own home now. Staying for a week in kampung is literally torturing me. If you've been reading my blog since 2009 (can't you believe I've have this blog for 5 years already?) you would have know that I hate my kampung. a) There's nothing that I can do there, no internet, no Astro. b) I hate kampung food and I always ended up with gastric c) no friends. Everyone around my age are mostly married with kids and I'm not on the same page with them.

It been a week since the passing of my grandma. We start to move on with our daily life. I'm not very close with my grandma once I'm growing up. When I was little, i enjoyed her company very much. She used to tell her grandchildren old folk tales as our bedtime stories. She would bring us with her to go fishing. Though it was pointless because with us around, she never catch anything. We're too loud and would swam there. In fact, she's the one that teach me to swim.

By throwing me into the river and left me flapping my way to the bank. Thanks Grandma. It still feel surreal that she's gone now.

Rest in peace, Inik.

We're going back again this Friday for the ending of the mourning process (ngetas ulit) and lots of my cousins will be there, so I foresee a great bonding weekend with them. Other than that, I'm picking myself up slowly to recover from my grandma passing, catching up with work and disappointment of the bf for forgetting my birthday (!).

But thank God for great friends, I still got lots of wishes and Miao and Sara took me out for an early birthday dinner and gave me great gifts that I absolutely love. And according to the bf, my birthday gift is included in my Christmas gift as well as my Valentine gift. ='=

Gifts from my girl friends

Reunited with my love

He seemed so happy when we picked him up when we're back. Poor little fella must have thought that we abandon him because he's been really clingy afterward. Lol

Fruitful day

If you follow my Dayre, you probably already read this post there. Because today entry is a cheat post ripped off my own Dayre. Dayre makes it so easy for me to write whenever wherever on my mobile but I still treasure my blog, I'm not gonna leave this space not updated.

Start my Saturday quite early because the bf wanted to get his medical check up done. He didn't even give me time to get ready. So I left the house with naked face.

I was so hungry while waiting for him to be done because I didn't had anything at all upon waking up, not even a glass of water. I swear I'm the most difficult person to handle when I'm starving. I was very bitchy and had my sour face on all the way to our brunch place.

But I'm easy to fed. I just need some food in my system and I'll be back to normal. We only had cheese balls, prawn rolls and Fu Zhou fish balls. Spent a long time there just talking with him about everything under the sun. Sometimes, some alone time like this is all we need to realize how much we have grown and how much we've known each other. The wonderful thing with falling in love with your own best friend.

Though it had been a week since I last wrote my things I want to do in 2014, I find myself still keeping it in mind and keep reminding myself that I want to be a better person, inside and outside. So far I have more patience and tolerance on the road with some curse words still leaking here and there. Also, I kinda stop procrastinate a bit and managed to get my heels which have been broken for at least 3 months to the cobbler. 

She fixed it in just 1 minute. 

Now I don't have to wear the same heels that hurt my sole skin everyday to work. 

Chance upon this street that reminds me so much of Phuket in this little alley where the cobbler is located. Suddenly I feel like a foreigner in my own town. These are the little things in life that we take for granted.

Another great achievement so far for me is that I went back to cardio and belly session at Ioga. I feel so good after sweating and refresh despite the sore muscle today.

At Anson for dinner

and we have a little guest joining us

"Ahhh, open your mouth, I feed you"

"What do you mean you don't like my rice?"

"Fine, I'll eat it myself"

Lololol

I stopped by The Queen to catch Hoe's performance. Turned out Patrick threw him an advance birthday surprise. 

Happy birthday in advance!

Actually his birthday is a day before mine.

Hoe's friends from uni also stopped by and we had a little group party there.

What a fruitful Saturday for me and I love it.

Daddy birthday

Happy 47th birthday to the greatest man in my life

We had simple family dinner for my dad birthday. The chances of everybody sitting down together, eating and talking are rather slim these day. It's nice to be able to sit and just talk and enjoy with my family, especially on special day like this.

Ops, Domanic was always looking away from the camera, too shy maybe? Lololol

We have this tradition in my family where everyone feed the birthday fella cake by turn starting from the oldest to the youngest.

Happy birthday daddy! 

Geezzzz, smile more ya! Why showed the sour face? Bahahahha