2 months to the end of 2012

Been wanting to edit and upload my photos during the daytime BUT I was busy helping mom to take care of my baby nephew - he's 8 months old now (fast eh?) and we were practically looking after him the whole day that we had no time for ourselves.

The naughty boy

Anyway, here are some of the photos I'd managed to edit and upload. :)

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Annual D&D 2012

Thought I'd be missing this round as I was not in the mood to attend the D&D. The many friends whom I used to work with were no longer around and it was the same every year. This time it was at Marina Bay Convention Hall and since it was there, I was expecting better service and tastier food as compared to Raffles Convention Hall right since it was MBS. Apparently I was wrong, very wrong. Food was just so-so and I found a stray hair on my food. Service was very slow, refilling of our drinks were extremely slow. We had to ask them or to remind them for it. The waitresses were not very attentive to our table anyway. Seeing that we were seated with our glasses empty, they ought to ask what drink do we want. If we had asked for our choice of drink with some other waiters/waitresses, they can just acknowledge it and walk away right? NO, they saw our empty glasses and just walked away after taking order from one of our colleague. Huh? We had to really spot for a waiter/waitresses to help us fill our drinks and it was really hard, almost like playing "Where's Wally?". All in all, I still prefer our D&D to be held at Raffles. Or perhaps I had high expectations from MBS after watching how they were all talk about service and food quality on the Biography Channel.

I did not stay until the end like how I used to for the lucky draw. I did not win anything before and it makes no difference if I do now because of the prizes.

Anyway I'd blogged about my thoughts about the D&D night under Don't comment unnecessarily.

Took just some photos this round and did not visit other tables.

With Nilo, the handsome phinoy.

Leo who eats a lot and will NEVER gets fat and Pat, the pretty faced boy. lol

My favourite hot babe - Rea.

We left early and took a walk around Marina Bay Sands and took a photo outside Avalon. Did not go in though.

The Helix Bridge.

Night view looked really pretty isn't it?

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Just a day after, we had our bonding session at East Coast. Best thing about working in my current outlet is we have a fixed Sunday off which makes meet up and gathering easier to plan.

With "grandma". She did an internal transfer so that she can plan for a family and have more time for her family and husband.

Super tall guy. He's about 190cm. Crazy!

With people I like. :)

Vegetarian satay, tried it before?

BBQ time!! Yum yum!!

View of the East Coast beach. It has been so long since I last visited EC, used to have dinner and drinks at East Coast Lagoon when I was still staying at my old house. We would walk home after dinner then.

almost the end..

With TP. Now that she's waiting to start school next year, she has been travelling quite a lot. Sometimes I wish I could do that too. Just quit and stay home, meet up with friends and travel a bit. Did not start saving until recently. Perhaps I should meet her on my first day of work so that she could help me on my saving plan. Maybe she should work as a financial consultant and help people save money. Lol.

Love this picture. It was like we always managed to take sure natural poses. Hehe.

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It was planned some time before we could finally settle on a date for our steamboat and meet up session! My temps and I. This time with B because he was staying at my place - have not moved over officially yet that time.

Food we bought. The meat and the corn was yummy!! Nearly couldn't have our steamboat because there was a slight mishap earlier in the day when we were preparing the soup.

My two girls who are so nice to stay in school to accompany me during my lectures.

Pity we did not take a group photo before the boys leave.. So it was just the girls. :)

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Anyway I was scheduled to have my extraction done last Wednesday however I was down with sore throat on Monday. It gotten worse on Tuesday where I practically couldn't talk at all! Wednesday, I had some phlegm and the doctor decided not to go ahead with the operation. He was worried that it will lead to chest infection as he has to stick a tube down my throat to help me to breathe. O-M-G! Lol... so J, I'm actually thinking of extracting two first and the other two another time. B, my mom and friends were saying the same thing as you. Haha.

So I am on a two days MC and requested for leave tomorrow. Back to work on Saturday. Hope my throat will be better by then for I'm having some dry cough now. Sore throat is gone, phlegm is gone as well. That was the 3rd time I'm postponing my surgery.

2nd was last week's Monday, which I had to postpone due to a fever on Sunday night. It went up to 38 degree celsius but went down on Monday.

Sigh, and now I have no mood to go back to work. Once, I'd attended this lady where she was there on behalf of her husband. She was instructed to pick what she wants and all she had to do was to call him down to sign off the deal and he'll rush back to work. I wish I could be like that one day. Going down to some place and do my things and call B to come down and sign off whatever I want.

When he brought me to shop for a new case for my HTC phone and he paid for the case I'd picked and he even added a screen protector (I think it did not come along with the case). Pasted the film for me and put on the case for my phone. I felt very pampered and loved by him. :)

I do wish that on my two days of MC, he would be at home with me, to keep me company which will not happen because our workplace is short staffed right now. I do understand that for if it is the other way round, I will go to work too.

Anyway, his chu lian qing ren messaged him last night. I do appreciate that he made the effort of telling me who messaged him. She was asking whether does he owns any policies, which I'd been asking him to check with her about that - he was putting it off with the reason that he does not need it. Well, it is still better to have at least one policy to protect oneself right? Just need to check  how much it cost and which is the ideal policy to cover oneself with.

What bothered me was how he was keeping the phone close to his side and the constant checking of his phone when it did not notify him of incoming messages. Maybe that was how he would behave when he's waiting for some messages from important friends for that was not the first time he did that. And he did not tell me what continued. I mean, if the someone I used to like message me and I do the same, will he feel comfortable? I do hope that he'll ask me along when he's meeting her to discuss the policy details - not because I don't trust him or want to check on him but I would like to know what policy is she going to offer to him and he will consult me for my opinions too.

I'd cancelled my purchase order for the macbook because he said no point getting it now. I really want to get the macbook but guess I'll wait until end year and see whether will they be coming up with any new macbooks. I was quite surprised with myself because usually I will want to do things my own way and seldom will I take my partner's opinion into account. This time I did. Maybe even when it comes to getting individual stuffs, it is also "US" instead of "I".

However, he shouldn't say that I'm always messaging my guy friends and are too close to them because he too, always have female friends messaging him and most of them are his close friends. It's the same. He too message some guys, I too message girls as well. Just that his female friends are more as compared to my male friends. He too, used to like girls but did not have the chance to be with them due to rejection, I too, used to like someone but did not have the chance to be with him due to some problems. He could tell me that happened a long time ago, mine too, happened a long time ago. Feelings we had lost for the special someone and now we have eyes for each other only. I can try to ignore the fact that he lost weight for her, got rejected by her and now, they have become good friends, communicate and meet up at times. Maybe he should be able to look past mine too. Just that I did not lose weight for anybody, did not get rejected directly but we are still in contact occasionally.

If he is unable to do that, he should not think I have such big heart to overlook it all. At least I did not scream and shout and demand him to burn all photos with his exes, dump all items bought to him by his exes right? I am still a bit bothered by it but I just cast it aside for I'm taking his word for it - they meant nothing and are just things he liked, not the meaning behind the items he's using now.

I know he's trying to put in some effort to keep this relationship going, hope he will continue to do that. Like he said, not waiting for me to give some examples then he realised what he's missing out. I am too, trying to continue what I've been doing and to do more. Sometimes, it is easier to hurt the person than to keep giving way to the person. However, constant hurting of the person will also hurt the relationship and cause it to fail.

My love for B will grow more and not grow less. Unless I keep things to myself again and try to overlook things that are heavily bothering me. Keeping myself numb will only make my heart close up. I do not want B to be hurt again like what R did to him.

A relationship is really very difficult to maintain for it requires love, trust and commitment. With any lesser of these ingredient, it will bring down the relationship. Not just that, it also requires accommodating to one another and putting the other half's feelings into consideration before doing anything.

Funny thing is, from this relationship then I realised the importance and meaning behind the marriage vows. Being together as boyfriend/girlfriend is easy for it requires a certain level of commitment. However, it is easy to break apart with little or no commitment as well. Marriage is different. It requires a high degree of commitment as a couple are together legally. It is requires a lot of work to put a couple together legally but it also requires a lot of work for a couple to break apart legally. I found this vow and apart from the other half, who else to stay faithful, to take care of you and to love you? Friends will not be able to take care of you, comfort you for life for they have their own commitments. I guess one's love will be truly tested when the other half is down with a sickness or when facing some crisis.

Will you, _________________ take this woman/man ______________ to be your wedded wife/husband, to live together in the legal estate of matrimony? Will you love her/him, comfort her/him, honour and keep her/him in sickness and in health and forsaking all others, be faithful to her/him, so long as you both shall live?

I remembered asking my friends why not change the wedding band as it was so scratched up. I was so oblivious of the meaning behind the wedding band.

Take this ring and put it upon the third finger of his/her left hand and repeat after me: In token and pledge of our constant faith and abiding love, with this ring I marry you.

See, it's not just any ring. It is a seal of love and faith. Of a promise to be with that somebody, to be committed to that special one. You can't just change the ring because it is dirty or full of scratches.

I do wish that he will be faithful to just me and not to be tempted by all others. I on the other hand, will try to do the same too.

Sooooooo, 2 months to the end of 2012, what have you done?

Me? Still stucked with the same job.

Met B.

Started a relationship with B with much objections at first.

B moved in to my place.

So I guess, 2012 is all about him. Lol.

Hopefully get to extract my wisdom, at least 2!!