Office colleagues are busy with one thing, wrapping and giving away presents before all are gone for the long weekends. For me, i'm still in the midst of wrapping and it seems like a nv ending task every nite. My workdesk are slowly piling up with prezzies! bzbz wrapping prezzies these days and bzbz organising christmas eve party at my place and bzbz with work and bzbz with endless activities everyday after work. I hardly had a day without anything after work but it's all fun. :)) Be heading down to a close friend's hen party later and first. Am I out of the league for hen's party since i'm like a bloated auntie now? (preggy and all..haha) No way! haha! I'm a funky, happening and blessed bloated auntie. :P

It's my fav time of the year again, Christmas! Giving and wrapping presents, lighting up Christmas trees but most of all, remembering the reason for the season - Jesus! I'm glad that i'll be spending Chritsmas with gh and my family members.

Some bb updates before i go:
- Last visit to gynae, he did the scan and told us it may be a princess! but can only be confirmed in the next visit in Jan.
- i've put on 3 Kg so far...nothing impressive but sturdy weight increase. :)
- bb gets to listen to bible stories every night read by his daddy.
- Gets many kisses from daddy every night and morning, twice/thrice the amt i get from him. :P
- mummy's tummy is as big as daddy's
- hears my singing almost everyday esp when i'm on duty on sunday
- hears pastor prince almost every sunday

Have a Blessed Christmas!

Yesterday's sermon is family-centric, about how to empathise with child's feelings and be in touch with their feelings just like how Jesus is in touch with Mary's feelings when she told him that Lazarus died. Although He knew that He will be bringing him back to life, He still wept. He could have just told Mary: "Now Mary, dun be despair, nothing to cry about pls! Watch me! Lazarus cometh forth!" Like some parents would react to their children's cries. Some may say " dun be a crybaby! it's just a small cut". To them, it's probably their first cut and with that response from mummy or daddy, well, your child may run to another person who seems to care more.

The special item is indeed special to me. It's a song called "Your Grace Still Amazes me" by Philip Craig and Dean. It's my 1st march in song on my wedding! Love the lyrics and music.

My faithful Father, enduring Friend
Your tender mercy’s like a river with no end
It overwhelms me, covers my sin
Each time I come into Your presence
I stand in wonder once again

CHORUS:
Your grace still amazes me
Your love is still a mystery
Each day I fall on my knees
Your grace still amazes me
‘Cause Your grace still amazes me


Oh, patient Saviour,
You make me whole
You are the Author and the Healer of my soul
What can I give You, Lord, what can I say
I know there’s no way to repay You
Only to offer You my praise


It’s deeper, it’s wider
It’s stronger, it’s higher
It’s deeper it’s wider
It’s stronger, it’s higher
than anything my eyes can see

Monday again and i don't really feel like working. heh heh...Gh is flying off to Vietnam and US for his 1.5 week long biz trip in a few hours time. *sigh* and after he is back for a few days, he will fly to beijing again for another week. His travelling schedule is inevitable and so if he stays on this job, i'll have to learn to be more independent. :/ I hope he has a great time in Orlando Disneyland and Coach Boutique! hehehe...

He hates travelling too though many are eyeing for his position to be able to travel and rub shoulders with the management folks from all over. He asked me if he lacks ambition and i told him he's just the more family oriented man. But I also want him to know that he is someone who somehow by the grace of God is favoured by his boss wherever he goes and highly esteemed by them. Also, i always think he really has the substance and capabilty in his job and a talent in the market (I said these for a reason). Someone who is able to get his priorities right (that is God first, family and then career).

I have a blessed family (together with bb coming along the way). Jesus loves me this I know......

11 weeks and no obvious tummy :)

I'm in my 11th week into pregnancy, i'm not the accurate type but my gynae told me i'm 10.5 weeks on my Mon visit so i guess i'm 11 plus weeks now. :P No obvious tummy as yet except those times when i stuff myself with food and so full till the tummy shows. Did the 2nd scan during my visit and as i thought bb is still bean sized with no definite shape, i saw to my amazement bb's head, hands, body and legs!!! No obvious tummy but bb has grew so nicely! bb is 37mm. i'm excited to see my tummy growing bigger because it means bb is growing too!

I've specifically asked my gynae if i can eat anything I want and if there is any food i shoud not have. He gave me the "well you can eat anything, just follow what your body tells you to" I was happy! But still i know gh still prefers for me not to have some food so i just submit.

We had a great time at Ah Mei's concert yesterday and she is awesome! When it started, and she started to sing the familiar slow classics, I almost teared and I dunno why, prob I nv tot i will have any idol but at that moment, i just felt "Wah! my idol singing my fav songs..so touched!" Maybe I really could feel how she would have felt having a stadium full of people cheering for her after all these years of hard work. I once wished I can be a singer as successful as her and a singer with substance but seems like God prefers for me to be a great wife and mummy to be. :P I admire singers who can really sing, as in they do not lip sync during concerts..hehe..She delivered all her classics so nicely and professionally. She didn't have any special guest because she simply have too many nice songs to cover in such a short time. Everyone was high at her concert and it was full house! This is my first concert and i am glad it's hers! Woo Hoo! I almost forgotten I was pregnant and sang my hearts and lungs out until i felt some discomfort in my tummy at the later part when i sang loudly. hehe....

Alright time for the good wife to go meet her hubby and go back hm together. I'm a happy wifey! :)

Some things i experienced during these few weeks of pregnancy:

- No pineapples/watermelons and those supposedly "cool" fruits.
I accicentally had 2 bites on a pineapple tart which a colleague brought back from Taiwan and was stopped after the 2nd bite by gh. I was angry cos it's a nice tart but submitted.
My reaction when stopped: "I'm going to ask Dr Gordon if i can eat pineapple tarts during pregnancy on my next visit! hmmp!"

- No heels
I kept telling my colleagues i have no variety of shoes to choose from since i can only wear flats and so have to keep wearing the same 1 or 2 pairs that i have.

- A little bump that becomes obvious after lunch
Not that i ate a lot for lunch but after my meals, tummy just sticks out and while walking past colleagues, they will comment: "wah come out already! can see it's very obvious now!"

- I get my PA
At work, colleague starts to ask:" u want milo, i make for you, come eat more" :P
At home, to gh: "dear can help me fetch a cup of water?, dear no water can go boil some?, dear, wanna eat bread, can go buy?" kekeke...

- Drink my almost daily dose of green apple carrot juice

- Choosy on food. (not much appetite - praying against this in Jesus Name!)

- Sleepy more often at work (esp after lunch - pray against this in Jesus Name!)

Generally the experience is still good just little things here and there that makes me feel i can't enjoy it as much.

2 months Pregnant!

Yes! I'm 2 months preggy! Only found out when i'm 6 weeks pregnant due to some miscalculations. hee.. had my first appointment with the gynae who did an ultrasound scan for us and saw the small sac and tiny bb with the heartbeat....it's soo amazing!! the gynae then prayed for us before we left which i heard he did for all his patients who are Christians. I got to know he worshipped in my church too. He also gave us a book he has written on everything about being a woman from bb to old age and autographed it for us too! :)

Btw, the edd is 30 May 08. :) A few days earlier, bb can celebrate birthdays together with mummy and daddy's wedding anniversary on 26 May. :)) Thank God for this bb and just after we found out, we are blessed financially too..details can be found on my hubby's blog:
http://lightsalt.livejournal.com/2007/10/15/

Can't wait to see my tummy growing bigger and my chance to put on some weight. :P
Will update more on bb soon! :))

our brain scan....

This is my brain scan....as u can see, i am quite a shy but loving person....although i do have my moody and emotional side...generally, i am still a happy person

This is my hubby's brain scan...ke ke....as per this scan result, it's empty with quite a fair bit of sh*t and is usually "zzz"ing....but on the positive side, it's quite a relax brain....

Before you know it, it's coming to an end of Sept! Time is really flying by real fast. I have been busy busy these past month but in terms of results in my recruitment, seems like it's may not be as good as Aug, trusting God for a miracle result for September since it has been a really tough month for me.

A 3-year-bond survivor left the company and pursuing a career in HR. I have survived the 3 years as well and now everyone (and probably my boss) is also counting days for me, guessing when i will leave. It's like a normal procedure to do that unless you are the few exceptions. I have survived a 4-year IT degree course that a degree holder and nothing else really. I survived a 3-year bond in the current company and now not knowing where I should go. God has blessed my journey indeed but i'm once again at the cross road not knowing where i should go.

I feel the monotony in my life now and I need to snap out of this.

GH flew to Shanghai for biz trip yesterday. If he knew earlier, i could have tagged along...hehe..
I'm back to my parent's home, back to my bedroom and to my famiiar hard bed and very nice to hug pillow (seems like without this pillow, i had some sleepless/disturbed nights at the new place, comtemplating to bring it back with me on Sat). Which means my bui bui will be very sad...kekeke...

Been having terrible headaches the past few days and slight headaches last week. Work has been busy and i decided i don't want to get too stressed out today and no resumes so means nothing much to do also although i have clients chasing me for profiles right behind me and many requirements to fill. No wonder i have stressful and terrible dreams even in my sleep.

Pastor's series of Rest messages these few Sundays have spoke to me and i pray I can come to a place of complete inner rest. I feel hactic on the outside and inside these few weeks and when there's no good profiles, all my worries comes in...all the what ifs...
- what if i do not have a single closure this week (nowadays, my boss started this weekly meetings to talk solely on closures)
- what if i have nothing to write about fo this month end performance report?
- what if....

I pray for a restful week......btw, no closure yet this week......but it's not my problem, it's His.

Happy National Day!!

A good break in the midst of the week. Went for a quiet dinner with my dearie after work on Wed evening and went for a stroll....ehh...ended up shopping trip at PS. there were 42% storewide sale for a few boutiques! so I was tempted....and my very rich (amen!) and super duper nice dearie paid for half of my shopping expenses. Don't mistake me, i'm a moderate shopper. hehehe....

National day is indeed a long awaited public holiday/rest since May/Jun. Received a super good news that a church friend just gave birth on National Day! We (my hubby and I) saw the sms from our friend while watching Rush Hour 3 at PS. Going to visit her and baby Shane later with dearie. This is their 2nd child and the dob for both children fall on such nice dates that my hubby and I will never forget, 1st child on my b'day 2 years back and another on my nation's b'day. :)) I wonder if they get any special treats (free diapers for 1 year, free slimming for mummy, free 1 year supply of baby powder milk etc...) for giving birth on National day, even though they are non-singaporeans..hehe..:P

We did not manage to catch NDP last evening, cos we relak one corner and catch up with 2 other church friends after the show. I went home and saw the news and was thanking God I was not anywhere near esplanade. The crowd was too much for me to take and worse of all, as the camera pend across the bridge and esplanade, there are more foreigners (which race you should have guessed) there than Singaporeans.

Secret

Watched jay chou's debut directed movie, Secret, on Saturday and it was surprisingly good! I mean i thought it would be the typical puppy love story and i still though so about halfway through the movie but didn't expect the twist to come in. When i saw the twist, i was still cynical and tot it's a copycat to the movie "Beautiful Mind" which i think is a very nice show. After watching further, i think the plot is different from Beautiful Mind but still good.

I give it 4 stars! :D

It's National Day tomorrow! Wonder what's there to watch.....Rush Hour 3?...never really watched 1 and 2 but the trailer for this 3rd sequel looks good and funny too! Let me go check out the showtime now! :)

Another Boring Day

Expecting a meeting this morning at client's site so woke up earlier specially to come to work early so I can check some over-the-weekends emails and have my super quick breakfast before i head down to meet my colleagues and take a cab to client's place for a supposed intense meeting (i've volunteered to take minutes since i've realised this meeting will have nothing much to do with me but more for the rest of the colleagues as the areas discussed will not cover mine..hehe..). It as cancelled last minute while we were waiting for a colleague to take a cab down.

Just has coffeebean for lunch. the pasta is not fantastic but fills my tummy. I've more or less done with my work for the day except to contiue to dig into my database for resumes for clients. My daily routine would be to check emails and dig into my systems for resumes to meet requirementsssssss from clients.

I've just heard from one of my colleague over lunch that my boss has sold his SLK and just bought a Lambogini. wahhhhh.....it's so not compatible!!..i mean the driver and the car. Ta-match! how come i've never seen a young hunk drives such nice car??

Typical Day At Work

Typical day with the following typical phone conversation at work with "potential" candidate:

Me: Hello, hi, can speak with _ _ _
Candidate: hello......
Me: Are you _ _ _ ?
Candidate: Yes yes
Me: I received a copy of your resume for a dot net position. Just checked with you if you are still with so and so company? (resume put Jan 07 - present)
Candidate: ya
Me: Is the current position a contract or perm role?
Candidate: erm....no left them already....in June, it's contract
Me: ??
Me: So did your previous company want to renew your contract after you ended the contract?
Candidate: yes!
Me: then can i know why you did not want to continue with them?
Candidate: erm..............no ..cos my contract ends after 6 months, they did not renew.
Me: ???????
Me: o...k...but I thought you said they want to renew your contract when i asked you earlier?
Candidate: ya....*giggles*.....oh nono...
Me: ??????????????????
Me: ok...what's yur expected salary?
Candidate: $****
Me: ok...i'll check with my clients if they wish to shortlist you for an interview (normally means they won't, dun wait for my call or call me back to check status) bye


I feel my job is getting too brainless.......i did a test sent to me by colleague to match your birth date with job satisfaction....it's 24% with my job....and it asked me to quit my job immediately and stop being a fool......issit accurate?....ehhhhhhh.......

Today's the fifth day dearie is in camp.....he was on reservist since Monday....time is passing pretty slowly....still another week to go and i will only get to see him tomorrow evening and sun he will be back in camp again while i'm happily serving in church. :P

Well, sigh sigh but! I still have the joy of the Lord! heh heh heh...happily shopping without him and best of all...His credit cards are with me! heh heh heh..keke...just kidding la..i shopped with my own money la.. i'm still complaining to friends that i have no sub card from him...which usually comes with the marriage package..:P Anyways we have discussed/debated about this before and he has his reasons for not doing so...SO IT IS OK! I was quite a feminist last time, nv thought i will get married and even spend my man's money, my ambition was to be a powerpac career woman when i was young. Now my ambition is to be a tai tai...hahaha....but my dearie don't allow me to be one now, so i have to wait......

Anyways, I wanted to write about something else actually....happened to catch "Let's Shoot" on Channel 8/U...can't rem.. and the topic was abt single parent. One of the guest was this 18 yr old gal who already had a baby. I missed a part of it but she looks like those too-havoc-to-be-responsible-mummy type talking abt her experience of being a single mum and why she wants to have a child so young. If i'm not wrong she prob mentioned there are women/gal like her who felt they do not need to be married to have a child and raise them all by themselves (or to be accurate also with the help of the gal's parents) as long as they felt they have the financial criteria. Tis prob makes man felt they have become secondary in the family unit. (well, she was called "childish" by a 15 year old boy who was one of the invited guests to the talk show and happened to be from a single parent ..haha- i really think the 15 year old boy might be more sensible than her). Another single parent is in her twenties and what i can't stand is that she is still with the child's father but the child's father did not want to shoulder the responsibility of a father and refused to acknowledge the child as his own (even called the galfriend's friend to make sure his name is not in the birth cert of the child when he is borned) - and the mum felt it's his choice to not wanting to acknowledge the child and it's her choice to give birth to the baby so no conflict, can still be her galfriend...duh?! she still wants a jerk to be her boyfriend after all this.....i was wondering....God! She needs some wisdom and women's dignity!! what is the child going to address her boyfriend when he/she grows up? "Uncle?"......i prob really do not understand why some gals can be so naive? but she did mentioned the guy's family is well-off so.....i guess to me, that's prob the only reason why she is still with him...if not she is prob not normal....the thought of it just cause anger to arose and not understand why some women are so weird in their thinking.......i really wonder..........arhhhhh... angry........

Life After Marriage

After almost 2 months into married life, friends are still asking how's married life. I guess we have to answer the same qns probably more than 100 times over say another half a year. My standard answer, :" great!....." hee...what makes it great? Well, at random order,

- We save time travelling to each other's place and back..we go back to the same place..in law's place is just a stone throw away.
- We get to see each other's habit and laugh it off or simply just endure.......
- We get to sleep together, glued to HK drama together, make breakfast/dinner together (initially), go shopping together, go for late night supper at Jalan Kayu (once)
- We clean up the house together (from once a week to once every 2 weeks...hee....)
- Save handphone/house phone bills since we can talk face to face every night.
- And many more things together coming up.......

exciting right?!..hee...his reservist coming up this Monday....and i'll miss these together things......back to the dating days..where we will talk on the phone every night again and i'll be back to WL the next 2 weeks.....can't wait for the 2 weeks to past....:((

As Christ Is So Am I In This World!

Been a lonnnnnnnng time since i wrote anything. Was updating my hubby (yes, married already) on sun's message since he was on his way to Philippines for biz trip and i thought i "preached" myself happy...so here you go :):

From the verse “As Christ is, so are we in this world”

Pastor uses the illustration of Jesus walking on water and as Peter also followed, he was kept above the water as long as his eyes are beholding Jesus. In the workplace or anywhere, there bound to be pple speaking things abt you behind your back but as long as you behold Jesus, you don’t have to care abt the arrows that comes against you because it is not what the rest says about you that determines who you are, it’s what Jesus is, Jesus is at the right hand of God, at the favored position, with wisdom, wealth and health, so are we! We are accepted today because Christ has paid the price for our sins, diseases and poverty. We are the chosen ones to be blessed by God as it pleased Him that His begotten Son is crushed at the cross, it’s the truth. Sometimes, we look ard at our circumstances (or the devil cause us to look away from our blessed ground) and laments that how come this person and that person is not a Christians/ does not goes church as regularly as I do, and when it comes to promotion, he/she gets it. This is the devil’s way of causing you to look to the things around you and he will makes you think that you are not as good as you think/ not as blessed as you think, probably God has forgotten about you. You then feel you need to work hard to gain what you wish to have (that blessedness). But the devil will never points us back to Christ or anything that is related to Him and his works.
But today, we have a High Priest sitting at the right hand of God. Pastor also talks about the difference between a High Priest and Prophet. Do u know the difference?

Jesus is our High Priest, Moses is a Prophet.

Moses conveys God’s Word to the people and therefore representing God.
Jesus is the High Priest and now sits at the right hand of God representing us.

When the High Priest is good, the whole nation is good and vice versa, the whole nation will be rejected by God.

We have Jesus as our High Priest today, God delights in Him and therefore we are accepted based on Jesus.
No one can take you out of this position in Christ, so therefore do not let things/people of the Earth/World cause you to think you are out of fellowship with God and that He has probably forgotten you.

Wah….I preached myself happy! J

Every head bow and every eye close….heh heh heh…. :)

Updates.....

hmm...been a long time since i updated this blog. Many things to update but don't exactly know where to start..hee..did i mention before our house is done?..yeah! we are purchasing lots of things ranging from smaller furnitures to cutleries from Ikea Tampines! Go check out ikea tampines if you haven't! It has been our must go place every weekend now. We visit and bought so much that we are now officially the friends of ikea! As friends of ikea, we are entitled to 2 free drink and discounted meals at the cafeteria that serve nice meatballs and chix wings! Guess where i'm going this weekend? :P

In the midst of trying to get the printers to print our wedding invites and had done our food tasting in a specially arranged with Xi theme setup private room at Oriental. Oriental has just launched their 4 new themes for wedding setup and had just attended a friend's wedding there with the combi setup using the Love and Dream Theme (if i din remember wrongly :P). I may just try a combi Xi and Love /Dream/Garden theme...dunno..hee..rojak theme...:D

Gh and I have done our 1st counselling session with Pastor Gab a couple of weeks back. Been good. Gh prob feels funny cos it's Pastor Gab also personal friend... but everything went well and we were given a book at the end of it(something about initimate activity :P). Having my 2nd meeting with Charis on 1 Apr and Gh's 2nd session with Pastor Gab on 23 Mar.

Time to knock off..continue later....

I have a DATE!

I'm going on a date tonite! apart from the very exciting valentine day's activities tmr - waiting for furnitures to arrive..oh well..

gh gave me a gd surprise today before lunch too! :)) Flowers delivered to my office :) happy happy :D. He has crossed way beyond my gd husband-to-be bf criteria:
1) love me very much
2) Man of God
3) comfortable to be with

He...
- loves me very very x inifinity much
- very comfy be with
- gives me flowers on val, birthdays, anniversaries and whenever he feels like giving me :)
- treats me to nice dinners! :)
- buy me little soft toys (all migrating to sengkang very soon!)
- Man of God (preaching to me every now and then :P)


I only date 2 men nowadays and forevermore...Jesus and dearie gh. :)

The Lord Says REST MY DEAR

It's been a while (more than 1.5 months) since you hear from me....Shall i still say Happy Belated New Year?! hee...Been reallllyyyyyy bz bz since the new year started...work is crashing down on me, wedding prep is happening every single weekend....pract for chinese/hokkien album till late...recording....lesser sleep/rest...weekend burnt....to the point that i'm feeling tremendously great burden on my mind. At work, my mind is engaged in 101 things, working like an octopus....makes me wonder when my mind is giving way. It's been like this since the year started..so much so for the message on Rest for the new year by pastor. I believe it was emphasized for a reason and the Lord is telling us that this year will cause us (at least for me) to forget how to rest in the Lord. I have been blessed in my job all along since i started and so why is it going to change this year?

Last sun pastor suddenly sung the song "You are my hiding place" and it just stirred my heart and i can't stop tearing thru'out... it just spoke right into my heart and it's just the song i needed to hear. He will always fill me with songs of deliverance from all the tension in my daily life. All will be well.......although after last sun, this week i still suffer some symptoms caused by my stressful life now, my trust is in the Lord that all will be well not because i think so but because He said so. :) I'm more than conquerer thru Christ who strengthens me!

I'm excited about my wedding and want to enjoy every moment of the preparation towards it. Tom's my phtoto shoot! I've had a good rest today at home. :)