i finished decorating our Christmas Tree!

this will be the 3rd year this fiber optic baby shines for us :)

the background movie playing was The Green Mile. i cried when John Coffey had to be electrocuted :(

 

*click to see the short clip i've recorded and oh, my pathetic voice*

 

hello,

i haven't had this much Me-Time by myself since... i can't remember! so, after seeing mr tay off to PC Fair, rejecting melissa's offer to go shopping and can't possibly sleep anymore after 9am - i got up.

and Mood For The Day - Productive


i have:


1. managed to watch 2 love comedies over at HBO

• Failure to Launch - starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew McConaughtey (i can never get the spelling right)

• The Perfect Catch - starring Drew Barrymore and Jimmy Fallon (ok, i googled this one up. look, i've never watched him in any movies ok)

and why is watching tv productive, you ask? coz i haven't watched any love comedies much eversince having the boyfriend around. although he does watch it with me occasionally after i expertly throw some drama queen act. i.e. black face, sour face and long face. anyways, those two were pretty good movies i'd say. i am thoroughly entertained, which is by the way, vital for this whole me-time thing.

2. ooo this is a major MAJOR battle conquered. i have successfully, single-handedly and patiently spring-cleaned my entire wardrobe which took me close to 2 hours! got rid of unwanted clothes and they were 2 bags of it.


3. and oh, this gets better. NOT ONLY have i cleaned up my wardrobe, i've ta-da... cleaned the boyfriend's as well. you wouldn't imagine how much dust i had to breath in to have his all-white wardrobe radiates its current sparkling aura now. i then brilliantly sprizzed some of my lovely gardenia perfume all over his wardrobe and now it smells heavenly judging from how agreeable he is to this perfume, (i.e sniffs me like a dog all the time) my only hope is that this agreement also applies to his clothes. if not, i'm dead by the time he comes home.


4. i've saved the best for last. well, not really the last but while cleaning his wardrobe, a light bulb idea suddenly lit up and it was a blinding bright one, mind you. not only had i cleaned up his wardrobe, i have also created somemore space for my clothes! yes! in his wardrobe! the compartment below! am i brilliant or what?! hahahahaha. shaddup, i am.

coz there he was last week, painting me this marrrrrrvellous idea of having his built-in wardrobe expanded so that there will be more storage for my clothes, which by the way *yawn* will not happen in another 10 years time, judging from how well i know him. so i tell you, all is not lost coz hey, honey... i've magically created space in your wardrobe for myself! now, he has got to praise me for helping him save some money. although, the Expanded Wardrobe idea still is very much welcomed, ya ya???


5. cleaned the loo but that's boring stuff unless you want to know how i scrub my tiles which according to david, i'm a weirdo. replaced the bathmat as well.


6. almost finishing Can You Keep a Secret? by Sophie Kinsella.

Me time = Bimbo time

so Sophie Kinsella is always the answer :D or Marian Keyes, if you ran out of Sophie. anyways, this book cracks me up almost every 5 minutes. brilliant stuff.

ok, so Emma the nervous airplane passenger was blurting out secrets to a stranger.

"...determined to find my G spot so we spent the whole weekend doing it in different positions, and by the end I was just knackered. All I wanted was a pizza and Friends..."

"... he kept saying, What was it like, what was it like? So, I made some stuff up, I said it was absolutely amazing, and it felt like as though my whole body were opening up like a flower, and he said what sort of flower, so I said a begonia..."

at the cue of begonia, i fell off the couch and hit my head on the coffee table from laughing too hard.

 

a begonia

my stupidity continues to mock me.


WE DON'T KNOW WHERE TO STAY IN KRABI. prices are pretty expensive now as compared to the low season period starting in May. and this pisses me off greatly because I ACTUALLY KNEW THIS ALL ALONG but due to sheer impulsiveness and stupidity, i booked the trip without thinking straight.


"woahhh, super peak season now. check out the rates, Dec 2007 - Jan 2008 is at its most expensive! and YOU KNOW WHY?"


i stared dangerously at the boy, muttering under my breath "just shaddup you. i know. don't rub it in or els......"


"BECAUSE IT'S THE WINTER SEASON NOW! GWAI LOS FLEE FROM THEIR FROZEN LAND TO COME TO OUR TROPICAL LAND FOR THE WARMTH AND TAN!"


and i swear he almost ended it with an "Amen!"


as i painfully went through the hotels and cursing in between at their rates, i couldn't help but notice the boy giving me the
there-you-go!-book-a-holiday-without-asking-me-first smile. a very smuggy one. he said to grab his credit card and go ahead with the booking for whichever hotels that i've identified so errr... is there a Hilton in krabi? :)
* hotels - because i wanna stay in 2 different room settings just for the fun of it *glee*

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donated RM149 to the gym for the month of Nov. in other words, i did not exercise for 1 whole month.

so yesterday, i painfully ignored mr tay's request to go home earlier. instead, forced myself and made an appointment with Jeff for a 6.30pm session. had the initial fear that he was gonna go max out on me with the extra weights, extra repetitions, extra sets, extra time in cardio but hah... it was actually quite alright. (gawd, i hope he doesn't read this, else i'm dead on Thurs)

except, i've lost all my stamina. after all the weight-training mumbo jumbo, jeff put me on a 8 min run with sprints and jog interval in between and it felt quite like i was the hippo being forced to flee from hunters. at some point, it felt as though my lungs were gonna explode and at the 5th minute mark while sprinting, i actually pictured my legs giving way, body twisted and face, falling flat on the treadmill. i do think a lot of crap whenever i run and it's best not to interrupt me by talking to me coz once, mr tay called me a number of times and sensing some urgency in that call, i just had to answer it. ooomph-ing and urghhh-ing while running at speed 11.5, i swear he must've thought i was being kidnapped and tortured. on other occasions, crappy thoughts usually revolve around having maniacal thoughts of Petty Man, what to wear for the next wedding, what has been consumed for breakfast and lunch, and gawd, i hope no one is focusing on my bum bouncing up and down.

and then today, after lunch, i happily reward myself (as though i've ran a 40K marathon) by walking hand-in-hand with Sue to the New Zealand Natural outlet and we both came out with a Green Tea and Fruits of the Forest ice cream each :)

my whole body and legs are aching like a bitch from yesterday's session, so this reward was well-justified. yes, you, you and YOU had better agree with me. period. hmmph.

p/s: for someone who doesn't like green tea stuff on ice cream or cakes, the Green Tea flavor at New Zealand Natural is heaven. i want to extend my thanks and gratefulness to Adam Lian for this WONDERFUL discovery.

this is Clever

 

and this is Stupid

 

stupid *singing* we're going to kraaabi, we're going to kraaabi... la la la la la
clever hmm.
stupid happy or not! la la la la la
clever yes, happy. did you ask gary and aiwen whether they wanna go as well?
stupid asked d. gary said wrong timing for him.
clever hmm ok.
stupid you book the hotels k! krabi 2 nights and bangkok 2 nights.
clever oh, we're doing bangkok as well huh?
stupid ya ya ya! krabi first then take bus to bangkok.

he then asked the mother of all questions next.

"ok, how are we coming back?"

 

O_o

 

*gulp*

the stupid stupid STUPID girl booked a RETURN flight for krabi. kaninehhhhhhhhh! how la like that! the main purpose of this trip is to actually go to bangkok! *wails*

clever let's just do krabi ok?
stupid but but but... 4 nights at krabi *wails* i had better come up with a good itinerary plan for us! i still wanna go bangkokkkkkkkkkk.... chatuchakkkkkkk *wails*
clever plan a trip without asking me first la, see la... hehehehe!

:(

 

***

anyways, i'm still trying to digest the order of david's 7 aunties from his mother side at last night's BBQ house warming in USJ. last night was utter havoc. in a good way :)

girl next time your children very lucky, will get lots of angpaus.
boy MY children ah?

*wahahhhaha*

FREAKIN'

DEPRESSED

WITH

JUST

ABOUT

EVERYTHING.

after The Spontaneous Purchase this morning, i went crazy at the bookstore.

i am a sucker for the following kind of books:

Faerie is never as far away as you think. Sometimes you find you have crossed all invisible line and must cope, as best as you can, with petulant princesses, vengeful owls, ladies who pass their time embroidering terrible fates or with endless paths in deep, dark woods and houses that never appear the same way twice. The heroines and heroes bedevilled by such problems in these fairy tales include a conceited Regency clergyman, an 18th century Jewish doctor and Mary, Queen of Scots as well as 2 characters from Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell: Strange himself and the Raven King.

completely sold by this summary. will definitely start with this book :)

Wolves and grandmothers, the seven dwarfs, a goose made of gold... the folk tales collected by the Grimm brothers created an astonishingly influential imaginative world. However, this is also a world where a woman cooks her stepson and an evil queen dances to death in a pair of burning shoes. Violent, funny, disturbing and wise, these stories have intrigued both childen and adults for generations. This collection features the 279 stories in an acclaimed, modern, unexpurgated translation.

the brothers Grimm were my heroes when i was a kid ok, apart from Enid Blyton during toddler years. so was really excited to see this compilation of 279 stories! another book came free with it.

The Bloody Chamber 
Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss-in-Boots, Beauty and the Beast, vampires and werewolves - absorbing collection of dark, sensual, fantastic stories.

 

remember Dorian Gray? Stuart Townsend played this role in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen which i so happened to watch with mr tay AGAIN a couple of weeks back on astro. i just love superheroes movies la - apart from this movie, i love love love X-Men. Jean Grey *arrrrrrrr*

so, this Dorian Gray character was not supposed to look at his own self portrait. if he so take a glance at it, he will disintegrate into ashes. i am gonna find out Why in this book. hehehehe.

and lastly, i had to do the bimbo thing. I got the latest instalment of Sophie Kinsella's Shopaholic series. Rebecca Bloomwood has a baby now :)

 

and one more bimbo thing

 

: FRONT:

 

: BACK :

C'est Chic 2008 very colorful, very cutesy and very bimbo calendar.

:)

It's the wedding season again! I have been receiving wedding invites for almost every single week now since the month of September this year. Well, my friend Cara is tying the knot in Feb 2008 and with almost a substantial 1 year of planning since last year, she is still searching high and low for some last minute wedding favors to be added into the whole wedding planning thing.

I helped her around a bit and found this really wonderful site:
TrulyWeddingFavors.com

The site is really pretty to look at and great for browsing as they have 100% unique images that really helped make browsing more fun and quick. Here are two of my favorites, cute aren't they?

butterfly candle holder

 

candy crystal

 

You can even search favors via theme. They currently have: Beach, Fairy Tale, Las Vegas, Wine, Asian, Coffee & Tea and Love Wedding Themes. No prizes for guessing which is my favorite theme! Just take a look at the following wedding favors, and I'm sure you'll guess it right :)

fairy tale :)

Not only that, you can search via, Price, By Season, and Type. It really is very user-friendly and fun to browse! Which, is in line with TrulyWeddingFavors.com's mission to help customers search for great wedding products and information in a very simplified manner and interface. And I believe they did it as there are so many favors that I love! For example, this Butterfly Wine Bottle Stopper.

This post was brought to you by TrulyWeddingFavors.com

at precisely 9.15am today, i bought a trip to Krabi-Bangkok 31 Dec 07 - 4 Jan 08.

Just like that? asked Sue.

Yeah, just like that, I replied.

anything that could lift me up a little now, i'd do it.

i'll just have to pray that my Traveling Partner will not kill me when he finds out later. and just incase you have an overwhelming urge to strangle me on Monday, just think of it as an early Valentine's pressie from me? :)

    - happily counting down and struggling to stay sane till 31 Dec