SoME UpDaTeS aND PhOToS cOmiN sOoN, BaD BaD AiR bAcK HeRE.

Quite a few updates and more pictures especially coming soon! Haven't got time to upload and edit them, also because my two dear sec sch besties too lazy to forward the photos over and also Tigger owes me photos as well! Anyway some of the updates will include:

~ 2 Outings with Sec Sch besties Beiwen and Sharon
~ Lunch Treat by Ex TCS Actor Allan Goh;on the exquisite dishes from Taste Paradise Restaurant
~ My company's (Commowealth Travel Corporation Pte. Ltd.) Travel Carnival Event
~ Dinner treat and KTV session for our marketing dept. by our ladyboss and Tour Manager

Lucky there are quite a number of things to keep my mind off darling. But still, I really miss him so much! ;'(. I realised we argue abit more now since we are not physically together. Can I attribute my bad mood due to the fact of non-stop work for 14 days and also the eye infection I have gotten once again ever since I got back from Melbourne? I finally had no choice but to go see the Doctor today. Initially I was scared it was the same "Baush & Lomb" contact lens scare in SG, but the Doc said my eye infection and nose problems were due to sensitivity to the air back here. Yessh, the air back in S.E Asia is a definite NO-NO for me. I have never had red itchy eyes and blocked nose back in Melbourne. Used to have it before I went Melbourne but the times when I came back from Melbourne, it got worse. My Tour Manager joked saying that I got "purified" by Australia air too much already. Haha..

Stay tuned to the updates anyway... ;)

LiFe JuSt DoEsN'T FeeL RiGhT W/O U bEsiDE Me, wHeN wiLL I sEE U aGaiN? A biG GiPPY GaThEriNG, CNY CeLeBrAtiOnS iN mY CoM aND mOrE sTuFF

This year would be another Vday without darling physically around. I tried using Fish Leong's song, "Happy Parting", a verse that sings, "Everyday's Valentines Day when you love the right person" to comfort myself but it didn't help much. Probably because it's hard whatever day it is as long as darling isn't around. We sort of gave each other a surprise on the Pre-Vday gifts before he went back Melbourne. The "You're Beautiful" CD was something he mentioned that he wanted and the Chain + Cross was something I wanted him to wear all the time. I got from him, the exact same Vday exclusive ring from perlini's; the one that I carelessly lost last year. He scouted from the different perlini shops to look for it and finally managed to find the last two in the Suntec branch. The bracelet was something I mentioned I wanted and he chose and bought the design himself. Material things might be of some comfort to remembering the person you love, but nothing beats having darling physically around. *Miss your cute chubby face and teddy bear hug so much* Caring friends have been telling me not to be so sad and that I will see him soon. Thank you dearies, you know who you are. **huggies**


We had a relatively HUGE Gippsland gathering a week+ ago at The Magic of Chongqing Hot Pot restaurant in Tangling Shopping centre. I would say the food and service are not too bad, but definitely try it out only if you are good at buffet tables and are willing to pay s$35 for a meal.

Chinese New Year came and went pretty quickly. If only the wait to return to Melbourne and see darling again could come as fast too. Anyway that's another story; My company is quite generous during festive seasons and we had dinner at Chinese Restaurants, "Open-WorkDay Ang Paos" and Lion dance in each depts. Then there's the In House Travel carnival coming soon and also the NATAS Travel fair in March. This time I introduced a Mini Carnival in the Travel fair for customers to win more free prizes when they book a tour. Hope the busy periods of the planning and "getting things ready for the events stuff" can keep my mind off darling. I am contemplating whether or not to put the tagboard back up because friends have been asking me on MSN where has it gone to? Much as I want to be able to communicate freely again with my friends, I really don't want to go through the stress of obnoxious people leaving comments I don't wanna see. I shall ponder on that first. I feel bad about something I unintentionally did last night-> I msged my best guy pal something about dinner and his GF saw the SMS and walked away. I really didn't mean for that to happened, but his GF has been jealous of me since poly days and I honestly don't know why. I mean, after so many years of being together with him, shouldn't she have more faith in him? Hope they patch up real soon for Vday. As for me, I shall go back JB on Vday and be Mummy and Daddy's girl.

So apart of dreaming everyday to see darling again, my mind has been rolling on what small business to do to survive when I am back in melbourne waiting for the PR processing, probably rely on my ebay again. And also just thinking what song to sing for the Culture Night Ball this sem and how I wanna dedicate this song to Len because she might not be back in time as my partner this time round. We have always perform together. :(

5 Things I wanna do before I return to Melbourne (NOT in order of importance):
1) Eat as much Bak Kua as I can ( Yah lah, very fattening I know)
2) Keep my parents company every weekend and most free times
3) Find the recording studio in SG where they do music recordings for normal individuals like us and record one song to keep (Pls tell me if anyone know, thanks!)
4) Meet up with my sec sch friends, tigger and kitty, my guy pal, my korean trip friends as much as I can before I go back
5) Go sing KTV, preferbly with my guy pal, cause only he can "tahan" me singin all the time. ;)

HaPPY CHiNeSE NeW YeAR, PhOtOs WiTh CouSiNs I HaVE NeVER TaKEN bEFoRE & A PeRiOd oF EnDuRaNcE.

Happy Chinese New Year and Gong Xi Fa Cai Everyone! For some reason, maybe due to the heavy traffic in the festive season, my ISP has not been working since Monday. It hunged halfway when I was updating this post and I could never connect again! Anyway as usual the Chinese New Year Reunion Luncheon is at my Grandpa's place. For the first time ever, I actually brought my camara to take photos with my cousins from my dad's side. Have never been really closed to them except for one(brown shirt) one because we are more or less the same age, while the others are still in their teens or younger. Those two little kids are my cousins' and my parents have given up hope on nagging at my brother and sis-in-law already. Don't ask why, some people are just "Old At Age and Too Young at Heart". And top left is just a candid shot darling and I took for fun. "See, he has slimmed down quite abit right?" *grinz*

On the first day of CNY, my two most-loved nephew and niece came visiting. My mum and I are closer to them because their grandma(my auntie) was a close sis of my mum's and she was the one who took care of me when I was small. Wished she was still around though. :( She's probably in peace in Heaven. Even though darling and I weren't married yet, we insisted on giving the two of them Ang Paos and we did! My dad was teasing me about it and I said something like, my "future-husband" there already, but just haven't gone through ROM yet what! *heehee* I went back to Singapore on Tuesday and darling took me along to visit his friend who was his ex-army officer. He's married and stays at Punggol. They had a pretty nice 5-bedroom flat and furnished really well. Darling's two other ex-army friends also turned up and one of them, their GF is an SQ stewardess. She was quite nice and when the boys went to play pool, the three of us girls went to walk for abit round Orchard. We didn't manage to find anything that we like though...

Anyway time really flies and in about a week or so, darling's returning to Melbourne. He's insisting that I don't send him off at the airport cause his flight is at 11.55pm and he didn't want to see me cry because he said he that would make him broken-hearted the whole journey. I couldn't help but shed a tear or two already yesterday when he told me. There's so much mixed feelings now cause I wanna work awhile longer in my ex company, but at the same time I really don't know how to cope without darling for 8 weeks! *sob sob*

AnOtHeR OuTiN WiTh dA GaLs, PhOtO sHoT wiTh FiOnA, mOrE PR AppLiCaTiOn HeAdAcHeS & jUZ rEaD oN LaH...

(Edited Post) Yes, I am in office right now and I should be doing my work I know! I've got heaps of stuff to do, but after taking photo with Fiona Xie yesterday(Da one in orange T-shirt, in case you don't know), I just had to write a new post and publish the photos at the same time. She's a MediaCorp actress, currently acting in "Love Concierge" which is on @ 9pm on weekdays. She really has a good figure in real life and quite okay, not too proud or what. I also took a photo with Thomas Ong before when we met in Melbourne, Victoria Market. Previously before he went back to acting in MediaCrop (He's also in Love Concierge), he started supplying free gifts to my company. He carelessly left his wallet on CK's desk before and we got a good laugh at his I.C. Fans of his out there, I also have his Mobile number, but due to confidentiality, it can't be revealed. Sorrie :( He came again to our office yesterday, this time unshaven with a rugged look. ;) Yeah, you bet this is an interesting job if you like meeting people from the Media. I will be leaving in end March, so my company might need another replacement. Do keep a lookout for the careers section then if you are interested! Work back at my ex-company is quite alright actually. Basically as usual, you do what needs to be done and is urgent. This week I'll be working 7 days cause we have a road show to promote our CTC Club Card. It's Sat/Sun 21-22 Jan @ The Heeren. Do drop by if anyone's free! ;) Anyway, some other updates include going out with Tigger and Kitty to have lunch and watch "The Family Stone" on Hari Raya Haji. It emphasized much on family gathering and bonding, quite okay, but the scenes happen abit slow though. And also, there's pretty much more emailing and hearing of all kinds of answers regarding my returning to Melbourne to apply for my PR. So much so that I am really sick of it! Not even the authorities can give you definite answers to the questions asked! And P.S: Sorry again chabohs, I might have to stick to returning Melbourne only in April again cause my degree certification takes 2 months and going back earlier means wasting time and no money. We really need to have a net chat together one day to decide what are our plans. Keep in touch anyway...

Darling and I have been the same, usual lovey-dovey selves. There has never been a time where I have been more confirmed about who I want to spend the rest of my life with, till now. He's God sent and I thank Him every night during prayers for my giving me my darling Longy. Sorry guys, it's a little mushy I know... And I will definitely miss him very much when he returns to Melbourne first. So now, we are pretty much spending every night together and hoping we can get "Our Life" back together in Melbourne soon. But in the meantime, we've gotta bear with the few weeks physical seperation first. Okiez, enough of the these... ;p

Yesterday was the Monash Pre-Departure briefing in Hilton Hotel Singapore. Darling and I met up with Lyell, Nancy, Joyce, Kal and his GF, Yuanyin to attend it. It was pretty pathetic with only 4 students going to the Gippsland campus and the rest mostly Clayton. Talking to the students really made me miss being an Orientation Helper very much... We did our best to tell them more about Gippy and how to get used to life there. Meeting some people there made me realised that we shouldn't always judge a book by its cover. Some people you just met may seem to be the sweetest and nicest, but they turn out to be back-stabbers with a masquerade. While some may not leave a good first impression with the things they do, but after getting more aquainted with them, you find out that they are actually alright. Haha, this also reminds me of what Tigger teased me before, "Its Juz Mel right? People either love or hate, there's no in-between one!" ;) And I just laughed and say, "Yeah true!"...

P.S: To a dear friend who has to go through some family problems now, Tubbs and I will be praying for you. You know who you are, we will be always waiting for you to return Gippy. *huggies*

MeEtiN wiF TiGGeR & KiTTy, XmAs DiNNeR, PuLaU uBiN CyCLiNG, BBQ @ KaL's aNd sTuFF..

I finally found the mood to sit down, edit some photos I took on outings with friends during the last week of December and writing a new post. This post is probably gonna stay for some time cause when it's a 9am-6pm job, 5 1/2 days a week, all you wanna do on Sundays is to sleepz at home or just laze around. Anyway, after darling and I came back from Melb., we soon met up with Denise and Evon. Missing these girls heaps and was really happy to see them. As usual we had Japanese food cause Tigger always "siao" Jap. food. Then after that, we walk over to Marina Mandarin(i think) for a drink. Hyahz, I always mix up the two hotels with the "Mandarin" in them.. Same shit, different thing lah.. There were lots of friends which I had decided to inform them that I am back only after some time. I guess it's the feeling of wanting to contact only "Those that really mattered". Others I guess, "If I see you, I see you, if I don't then forget it." After all, back in Melbourne I was also forgotten by them, so it doesn't make any difference...
But I finally managed to locate my 2 good friends that I had met on the Korea trip. Lucky they haven't changed their mobile numbers and I found it on my company's in-house system. Christmas this year is also the same as every year. Even the Buffet Dinner is at the same hotel, but it's all good, as long as the food's delicious and it's with my closest family members. My mum commented that for the last two years, it has only been 5 of us. I replied, "Yah, wait for it to be 6 of us(including darling), I think have to wait very long." I should be thankful that at least his parents are slowly accepting the fact that he has a GF already. On New Year's Day, we even went to darling's New Creation Church in Suntec together. Pastor Joseph Prince is really very charming and good-looking. heehee.. *grinz*


Cycling trip at Pulau Ubin with darling, Alvin and his friend, Song. Man I think that day was one where I sweated the most and got the most mosquito bites! All because we forgot to bring the insect repellent... *sign* That "Uncle" Alvin took so long to get used to the bike that we almost laugh our heads off looking at him cycle. Later that night, we had a BBQ at Kal's place. He stays in a rather big semi-D house and it even fitted a pool table inside. Ok lah, I am being kiasu, cause I've never been into someone's house in S'pore, it's usually HDB flats. That's why I always wanna go back my JB home; a comfortable 2-storey house... Oh yah, thank you Kal and "Da-Sao" for sending us back home that night. *smiles*

So it's been a week since I went back my ex-company to help. Feeling bored and sianz because must wake up at 7am everyday. Somehow the feeling from the past isn't there anymore. Maybe cause I am working temporary and am thus not involved in meetings anymore. I mean, what's the point right? I'm leaving in 2mths. In the past, CK and I would always be the ones meeting people from MediaCorp, S'pore Press Holdings, the Tourism Board people etc. Oh well, as long as the pay still comes in and my colleagues are still the same warm and friendly ones, it's alrightz. Also, Joewiz, Len and I did have some brief contact about the dates we are returning to Melbourne and the VISAs application thingy. Joewiz and I are pretty much confirmed, but I'm still keeping my hopes up on Len though since we haven't contacted after she went to KL, the place where she "couldn't let go." Honestly, I have been surpressing myself from thinking of Melbourne too much. But I really miss it there, especially the private life darling and I have. Anyway, check out Luvy on the left. He's a cute Yorkshire Terrier puppy who belongs to my mum's friend. He's only about 7 weeks old and I was baby-sitting him during New Year's Eve because my mum and his owner went for Count down Line-dancing party. OmiGod.. I didn't wanna let him go when his owner came for him that night, he's soooo adorable...

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