It's been ONE hell of a year!

.

I was suupose to post up a pre-anniversary blog before this but I still haven't finished it so this will have to come up first. So look out for it soon!

.

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO US BOTH!!!

.

Yes, it's been ONE year!!!

.

Nov 24, 2007 - Our BIG day

.

Jan 8, 2008 - We found out that I was pregnant (so fast!!!)

.

Jan 11, 2008 - Our trip to Krabi. It was suppose to be a pre-honeymoon thing but ended up being our actual honeymoon and puked throughout the whole trip. SO much for a honeymoon.

.

Feb & Mar, 2008 - I was on complete rest in bed due to complications and FattyHubby had to give out angpows himself.

.

Apr 2008 - The blood test scare!

.

Jun 2008 - My birthday!!! And Renée's baby shower

.

Aug 2008 - The emergency C-sec delivery of our baby girl, Renée Elisabeth Lim Yi Cheeng. Followed by FattyHubby's 30th birthday!

.

Sept 2008 - CONFINEMENT!!!

.

Nov 2008 - Our 1st Anniversary

.

I love you, sweetheart, and always will.

I know I'm a hard person to live with and you always have to put up with my temper tantrums but you're the only man I've ever met who could deal with me and my shit and still laugh about it and for that, I thank GOD everyday for making you such a permanent part in mylife.

.

XOXO

lup you long time

HaPPy BIrTHdaY, MISHY MASHY!!!

.

you're still favourably known as BlossomMich. PuffPuff rules!

.

Remember how we met so many many years ago.

It was like as if fate threw us together and I've never had a better friend than I have in you (and ButtercupTjin as well, but this is not about her. She'll have her turn).

.

We've been through so much ups and downs, laughter and tears, accidents (mine mostly) and in and outs of a million different relationships, and yet, here we are, still strong for each another and the best-est of friends *grins*

.

Remember the time we went to Pyramid during one of the days we skipped class and I gostan-ed into the green pillar at the parking lot?

Hahahahahaha!

.

And how I was always late in picking you up for classes and you always get mighty pissed at me but you allowed me to pick you up the day after anyways?

Which also explained why we missed half of the lectures throughout our college years....hahaha!

.

.

And the time when we were bawling our eyes out when you and ButtercupTjin flew off to Perth and I had to stay behind...*sniffles*....

I still keep the postcards you girls wrote to me from the plane.

.

And the best of all was the times when we went for drinks to curse and condemn all the men that came and went in our lives.....

And I ENDED up marrying one of them anyways....

.

I can never imagine how life would be without you, the always practical, sensible one that will talk me out of all my drama moments.

If it wasn't because you knocked some sense in me, I might not even have gotten married....hahaha!

.

.

So, here's to you, sweetheart!!!

BFFs forever.....*bimbo accent*....

Love you!!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

.
>_<'
.
I know it's like almost New Year's now and I'm almost a week late in wishing everyone a Merry Christmas but, it's better late than never and besides...
.
Christmas is 12 days long =)
.
Like every Christmasses in the pass 5 years, this one was no different. It zoomed pass too fast for me to actually savour every minute of the day. But all the same, I'm glad everyone in the family are still here to enjoy and spend yet another Christmas together.
.
Next year, we plan to do something different for Christmas, tkaing the opportunity that Grandpa and Grandma are still healthy and able to walk around.
.
But then, I shall let you know what we have planned next year because if I tell you now, then I'd have to kill you. More like I'd have nothing to blog about next year Christmas.
.
The only thing different about Christmas this year is this.
.
Usually, my Christmas pressies would consist of stuff like accessories, slutty looking clothes which I like, books, bags, etc.....stuff that are like my personal favourites lah.
.
But this year, I got.....plates, tableware, drinking glasses, chopstick and holders, towels, RECIPE books!!!!, and bla bla bla....all the absolutely boring stuff you can think of!
.
And just as I was about to open my mouth to complain....
.
"That's for getting married. Welcome to the club!!!"
.
-_-'
.

So anyways, before I go off and forget to blog in another week's time, here's to you! Have a great 2008 and may it be much better than the year before!

.

Happy Holidays everyone!!!
.

So how do I feel?

I think there's much more to marriage other than the fact that I have officially sealed my life away to ONE man for the remainder of my days.

.

It's the fact that I can no longer decide to walk out whenever I want to anymore, especially after an argument, unless it's just to head downstairs and sulk in the living room. But that would just be stupid.

.

Fatty and I have been living together way before we tied the knot, so living together now as husband and wife doesn't really make much of a difference to me. But, after the wedding, it feels like as if an invisible thread has tied us together and has somehow bonded us even more because suddenly, we seem to be taking each another more seriously.

.

Marriage is not gonna be easy, that's for sure, and it will take a lot of hard work from both parties to make it work out, especially when it comes to sensitive issues like finances, and men CAN be idiots, so living with one for the rest of one's life will definitely be challenging, but it's sure beats the hell out of living alone, doesn't it.

.

And as I've pledged my vows before God in church, I shall repeat them again here in my blog, the vow to love one man and only one man for the rest of my life. What God brings together, men can never divide.

.
.
Thank you to all those who came to share the moment with me and for all your beautiful gifts.

Welcome to the world, Devon!

I have another nephew!

And I'm soooo happy to hear that he came into this world without giving much pain to his mummy.

.

Congrats, CuzNette and CuzInLawHamish!!!
I can't wait to see the baby when you come back in November for my wedding.

.

Oooh, two joyful occassions to look forward to and this excitement is already making me squirm in my seat!

.

Devon, when you big enough, Aunty Kristy gonna go introduce you to party places and alcohol okay!

Aunty Kristy is the MOST FUN to be with.

And I promise you that.

Toodles

Have a great weekend everybody, I know I will.

Redang here I come...
Snap snap snap...

Pictures galore!

His drunked moments

When his friends were trying so hard to get me to give him a chance,
I turned and saw him dirty dancing with another girl.

.

When I tried to get him to take a decent picture with me,

When we weren't even together yet,

He turned around and planted a drunked kiss on my cheeks,

Just as I pressed the snap button.

.

Our first trip to Penang together,

He left me alone on the beach to defend myself against a perverted Middle-Eastern guy,

While he was out working on the field.

.

I found a starfish and a live squid,

And bounced happily back to show him,

"It's dead", he mumbled, without even opening his eyes.

.

We went off on the jet ski together, with him steering,

He took a sharp turn,

And sent us flying right, and the jet ski flying left

And we landed in jellyfish infested waters.
.

I tried to button up his jeans for him,

While he lay there snoring on my mother's couch,

And as I turned him around,

His fist came flying and made contact with my face.

.

He says "Baby, I'm a man, how can I not look?"

And points at the ass of a girl in short skirt

I say "But she's ugly, Baby"

He replies "Just cover her face and do it for the country lah".

.

He went down on his knees,

And asked me to be his wife,

And after I said 'Yes', he left me alone in the hotel room,

And went to watch football.

.

We had a romantic dinner at J&R,

And then he fell asleep,

And left me to spend the remaining hours of our anniversary alone,

Watching House of Wax.

.

.

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, BABY!!!

this is a little belated, I know

but I still love you very much

after all you've put me through

it's been a great few years together!

OUTTA HERE

....in ONE hour!

.

It's my last day and I'm soooo excited!
Not excited cause it's my last day - I've been celebrating since I tendered the letter

But excited cause Fatty is bringing me to Cherating right after this!

.

It's been too long since I've breathed in the ocean's breeze and my gills are longing for fresh sea water. I can just imagine how good the water is gonna be, as they always say, Cherating is at its best in May and June.

.

Sad thing, we're only gonna be spending ONE night cause Fatty has to go back to work on Monday. Stupid client. Of all days, had to choose to do their commercial recording on a Monday!

.

Stupid or wat? Mondays are just after Sundays. Nobody in their right mind would be in a working mode on a Monday. Mondays are like post-Sundays. Whyever do you think there's such a thing called Monday Blues.

.

Cos people just DON'T do bloody commercial recordings on a Monday, stupid!

.

So, because of stupid clients who insist on doing stupid commercial recordings on a stupid Monday, Fatty and I will have no choice but to rush to Cherating after I'm done in this stupid place, spend one night, and rush back tomorrow night so that the stupid clients can get their DAMN STUPID recordings done!

.

But then again, it goes to show that only stupid companies will take up stupid clients because Fatty's company is stupid. They're sooooo stupid they decided to send Fatty far away from me to Jakarta the whole of next weekend. For some stupid conference. With more stupid people. And it's stupid because I happen to be on holiday whole of next week before I start my new job on the following Monday - yes, they are making me work on a post-Sunday, dammit, and Fatty won't be around to spend time with me.

.

And it's even more stupid because it was Fatty's boss that's making him go for this stupid conference. And it's stupid because Fatty's boss was the one who told Fatty that he has to be nice to ME, protect ME and always be around for ME.

.

So, Mr. Fatty's Boss, how can Fatty be nice to ME, protect ME and always be around for ME when YOU, dumbass, are sending him off to Jakarta for 4 freaking days, on MY days OFF???!!!

.

Urgh! I hate him sooo much I feel like squeezing lizards pus all over him, and then flinging the remains at his face. But then again, that's disgusting and no way am I even going near a lizard just for him. So he should just slunk off somewhere and die. And hopefully, while slunking away, he'll get hit by a HUGE tanker. But he won't die yet. Not till the tanker explodes open and it's contents of acidic liquid spills forth onto his face and burn it into nothing. But no, he still won't be dead. He'll be writhing in pain and all the journalist for the press and media will come take pictures of his ugly, distorted face, and then, post it up on the newspapers and internet and TV. Then Fatty won't have to go to Jakarta cause he'll have to visit him at the hospital. And then Fatty's boss's wife will divorce him and then he'll want to die. But he'll live to 100 before he does, hidden away in a cave in Tibet and never coming out.

.

Okay fine, I didn't mean anything I wrote. Just a figment of my imagination.

.

But I wish Fatty doesn't have to go.

.

Oh well, at least I get to go to the beach even if it's just for one day and I get a whole week off.

.

I had lunch with Juju and JamieLing yesterday and they were bitching on and on about how fat people are bad people and that all the fat people they know are all amazingly bad people too.

.

Juju: Aren't we glad that we're all skinny people here!

Me: *nodded in agreement*

Juju: *looks at me* But you're getting there, Kris! You better be watch it. Go on a diet or something.

.

FUCK!

.

And then, it was SandyMae's farewell dinner last night so everyone in the clan got together for a scrumptious meal. I walked pass Grandma and she grabs my arm.

.

She: Waaaah, Kristy, you put on weight horr (in cantonese)

Me: *waaaaaails!!!*

.

And that totally ruined my entire night.

.

I really hate it. I hate the fact that I KNOW I've put on weight and I KNOW I'm fat, but I absolutely hate it when I'm told in the face that I'm fat!

.

It's like, you don't go up to a bald man and tell him he's bald! You don't expect him to go, "Wha - whaat? I'm bald????!!!". I'm sure he KNOWS he's bald, for fuck's sake.

.

And I KNOW I'm fat! So don't tell me something that I already know, okay.

.

On another less frustrating note,

.

I would like to wish all mother's out there a HAPPY MOMMA'S DAY!!!

.

and also, a VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my darling ANISTON!!!

.

muaks muaks muaks!

we luuuuve you

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BLOSSOMMICH SWEETHART!!!

.

You're 27 today and yet, you don't look a day older than the first time we met back in college.

.

.

But boy, the memories we have, makes me feel like as if I'm gonna be turning 72!!!

The three of us really had great times, huh, and even till today, our conversations are filled with memories from the past.

.

.

ButtercupTjin and I are really proud of you, babes.

.

.

For the first time in many many years, you actually successfully WALKED OUT after your party was over without having someone carry your drunkard ass into the car like so many years before.

Too bad we didn't have the chance to snap pictures of you taking a piss. You weren't drunk enough.

You didn't even need me to accompany you to the toilet this time.

*sniff*sniff* My girl has finally grown up.

Party or what!

.

.

Well, another year come and gone, and still friends we are!

And friends we'll stay.

And I can foresee, this year will definitely be a much much better year for you, just wait'n'see!

.

On another note...

.

3 DAYS TO GO

.

before I leave this hell hole!

.

Seriously, I never knew the amount of rubbish I collected could be THIIIIIIS much!

I mean, 6 drawers filled with stuff, a table top filled with files and 5 thermos mugs???!!!

Where the hell am I even gonna put these things when I bring them home???

omg omg omg omg omg!

.

I'd probably just leave them in the paperbag and then lug them off to my new office when I start.

.

It's like freaking moving homes, man!

Oink Oink

I look everywhere and I see my absolute favourite colour RED!

RED flowers

RED curtains

RED clothes

RED lanterns

RED angpow packets

how cool is that!

.

And the best thing about CNY this year is my collection of red packets.

It's boost up in numbers compared to last year and it just feels so great!

More ka-ching to spend, more ka-ching to save, more ka-ching to do whatever I want with them and the best thing is (just like every cny), these were given to me for freeeee...

.

DUIT PERCUMA wei!

And all I had to do was wish people Gong Xi Fa Cai.

This is the BEST thing about chinese new year....free money for nothing! Gaaa-gaaa-gaaa!

.

However, this year was slightly different.

Instead of the usual reply to my wishes, this year, everyone (and I mean EVERYONE) replied with:

"Nah...last one arr, next year no more lah"

"Next year your turn to give lorr"

"First year must give double yah"

.

No wonder my collection of angpows increased this year.

Everyone kesian me cause me gonna join the 'married' club so they pakat and give me duit simpati.

How can like that?

Next year married dy but I still younger mah, so can still take mah, no meh?

.

I think I was somewhat emo this new years though cause it kept playing in my mind that everything I've done for cny since the day I was born till now will change from next year onwards.

.

Last reunion dinner at mama and yehyeh's place

Last time for mummy and daddy to be wished by me first

Last chance for me to curi all the free food from home to give people when I go bai-lin

Next year I gotta buy the food myself....*sigh*...

.

Hmmm...maybe I can curi Fatty's money instead and use it to buy stuff for bai-lin

I don't mean literally curi of course, just taking it from him without letting him know first lah

And if he finds out, he can't scold me cause afterall, I'll be Mrs. Fatty by then, and the stuff comes from Mr & Mrs Fatty, so he has a share in it as well.

.

Oh GAAAAWD!
I can't believe I'm gonna be married by this time next year!

What if I loose all the people who admires me now? Not that I have any but I would like to believe that I still have many many many.

And then I would have to work even harder to maintain my physic for fear that Fatty might stray away and find himself a YOUNGER woman....*WAILS!!!*

Oh, the pressure of being married!

No wonder so many young women all look like they age 50 years right after their wedding.

Oh noooo, I don't want to look 50! Pleeeease...I'm not even 30 yet!

Oh gaaaaawd.....30....I'll be hitting the big 3-0 in 3 years......

.

Okok...sorry....ter-digress...
Told you I'm emo...

.

Valentines

Happy Valentines Day!

.

the day for you to spend more money
on flowers and teddy bears that originally cost much much less

and squeezing with millions of other lovey-dovey couples

who are also spending more more money

on restaurants and diners

that magically conjures up 'Special Love Menus'

.

suckers!

.

i never believed in V day, never had, never will

*click for flashback*

.

and i will never understand why in the world people feel that there should be only one day in a year that's special enough to take your loved one out for that expensive dinner, to buy her that expensive bouquet of flowers and to express that undying love and emotions.

.

*femme rolls eyes*

.

all day long today, i saw streams of bouquets being delivered to the office and the younger girls all giggling in delight.

i must admit, i was happy for them, envious even

but i think i would shrivel up in embarrassment if i were to receive one.

and then i noticed, people these days don't even deliver proper flower bouquets anymore.

the bouquets are all made up of soft toys on sticks and candies.

.

who likes soft toys anyways!!!

and soft toys on

STICKS???!!!

that's just evil.

.

anyways, Happy V Day, peeps, and for all those who are out there spending more money, well, i'm sure she (or he) is worth every penny.

Two 007

Bond.

James Bond.

This is your year.

(i haven't even watched the damn movie)

.

2006 pretty much ended in a fucked-up way.

What with the earthquake in Taiwan and floods in Melaka and Johor, and everyone cursing at the damn connections and bad weather, I guess the only good thing that happened was the hanging of Saddam Hussein.

But then again, it's only good to some of us, and bad to the rest.

.

As for me, 2006 was a pretty good-bad year.

.

1. Got myself a new job with a high paying salary.

2. Had the worst hang-over ever.

3. Went in for an ass operation.

4. Experienced Coloxyl.

5. Tasted the most delicious durian tempura.

6. Found yummylicious Strawberry Daiquiri.

7. Bumped into an ex for the first time.

8. Was accused as being delussional.

9. Proposed to for the first time (but of course)

10. Had the biggest, hugest fight but it was a good release.

.

****************************************************

.

Christmas Decorations Rules

.

We had a pre-Christmas reunion at Aunt LaiLin's place.

It was good fun and I had the yummiest red wine ever.

It's specially made and is not available outside. I wished it was though, cos I fell in love with it.

.

Aunt LaiLin went to a lot of effort in making her house look all Christmassy and it was really nice.

She even decorated the stairs handrails and her stand lamps.

.

****************************************************

.

New Year's in Penang

.

Fatty and I went to Penang for the countdown.

We went with Gord & Cin, Rim, Mark, Nisha, Harp & Mike.

Stayed in Northam Hotel.

It wasn't as good as we expected it to be lorr.

Worse. The jaccuzzi couldn't even hold the water in properly.

I got to eat my Balik Pulau Assam Laksa again and it's still as yummerlicious as ever.

But I didn't get my Chee Cheong Fun though. They close on Sundays. Damn.

Gord & Cin gave us our engagement present.

I don't know what I'm going to do with it now.

Keep it for my own? Or give it away at someone's else's baby shower?

.

Countdown was weird too.

We slept right through midnight, woke up to wish each another, and then went back to sleep.

The rest? Don't know.

I definitely hope your countdown wasn't as boring as mine.

Here's wishing everyone a wonderful brand new year!

.

Bye-bye 2006 and hello 2007!!!

Christmas

Christmas just isn't the same anymore.

.

There was a time when I started counting down the days to Christmas the minute June ended. Christmas shopping was never a last minute 'chore' for me because I always started early and had all the presents wrapped even before the Christmas tree at home was put up. I always made sure I took time off whatever I was doing then, to help mummy and my sisters take out the tree from it's box and light it up, and I was always the one who was hopping all over the house, hanging snowflakes everywhere, and making sure that 'home' is exactly where the 'perfect Christmas' would be.

We would create wonderful fun themes for the different family gatherings leading up to Christmas day.

.

3 days before Christmas will see us at AuntD's place, all decked out in Bahamas wear.

2 days before Christmas, and we're all hanging out in our finest pyjamas at home.

Christmas Eve will see us all at Godma's house, in the joyful colours of red, green and white.

And sing Christmas carols together with AuntD on the guitar.

And then Christmas day itself, we'll all be gathered in our Sunday best, at Grandma's house, fighting for the front row seats in front of the beautiful Christmas tree, while waiting patiently for Grandpa to pick out the presents with our names on it.

.

All these beautiful memories....

.

And then, we all grew up.

.

Christmas shopping became an obligation. A chore. A financial burden.

Instead of looking forward to it, it became something dreaded.

.

There were no more 6-month-countdown to Christmas.

Sadly, Christmas came and went, and I hardly felt it.

I wasn't even home when the Christmas tree was put up this year.

I took no part in decorating the house...
...or making 'home' the place for the 'perfect Christmas'

.

There was no Perfect Christmas.

.

For the very first time, this year, we celebrated Christmas without AuntD.

For the very first time, this year, we sang Christmas carols to a children's Christmas CD.

And for the very first time, this year, we celebrated Christmas at Godma's place instead of Grandma's home.

.

Grandpa and Grandma are getting too old to handle a crowd in their house anymore.

.

And this hit me real hard.

So hard that it hurt.

Because it opened up my eyes and I saw how old the grandparents have suddenly become.

And I know that they will not be in my life for many more Christmasses.

And I cannot ever imagine celebrating Christmas without Grandma's "Five Golden Rings".

Or Grandpa's spasm of sneezes to signify the end of a really yummy Christmas eve dinner.

.

And it made me sad.

And so, for the first time this Christmas, I sat in an awkward silence.

That even PlainJanez asked me if there was anything wrong with me.

.

BUT there is ONE BEAUTIFUL THING that happened for the first time, this Christmas.

.

I'm happily engaged and looking forward to a having wonderful wedding, surrounded by close family and friends, Grandpa, Grandma, Mummy and Daddy, Sarah and Jojo...

And more importantly, looking forward to an even more wonderful marriage....

.

For the first time, this Christmas, I realised that this Christmas will be the last Christmas I'll be celebrating as a single, independant woman. For this time next year, I will be happily married to someone wonderful.

.

So, this Christmas, for the first time, I shall look forward to making next year's Christmas more meaningful, a Christmas where one chapter of my life will end, and the next one will start.

So, have a VERY, MERRY & BLESSED CHRISTMAS this year to all you out there, and may all your Christmassy dreams come true.

work sucks

I SO NEED
.
another job!
.
I just cannot understand how ONE idiotic fucked up woman can destroy an entire company without even a blink of an eye.
And I even more so cant' believe that my boss can't seem to see the destruction of his company in front of his very eyes!
.
But I can!.
.
And i can foresee hell taking over comes Jan 07.
And that's when I would need to call forth the army of angels to come protect those that needs protecting because as we all know, HELL HATH NO FURY, LIKE A WOMAN SCORNED!
.
fuck.
.
i'm losing my mind already.
.
**************************************************

.

NEW LOOK

.

well, I'm getting my hair done this afternoon and I'm sooooo excited!

I'm not too sure what Fred is gonna do to it, but I know he will definitely do a GOOD job.

.

So, look out for pictures of me new lookie yah!

.

*************************************************
.
PENANG, HERE I COME!
.
And once again, I'm leaving this town for another.
And I can't wait!
.
Chee Cheong Fun
Assam Laksa
Fried Kuey Teow
Nasi Kandar!
Pork Intestine Porridge
.
Ooooh.....I'm gonna put on sooooo much weight after this trip.
.
But who cares. I know, I dont!
.
Have a great weekend peeps! (or at least to those who works in the Selangor region)

not a baby anymore

MY BABY SISTER'S NOT A BABY ANYMORE!!!



but she will always always be a baby to me.

love you, babes! and happy happy birthday!
.
*************************************************
.
OFFICE ALONE
.
because of some last minute work the boss wants.
*sigh*.....and all for what?
.
i want to go home
i want to curl up in bed and read my fav book
.
but nope, no chance, no way
because here i am, still stuck in office, and i can't even do a damn thing till 6.30pm!
cause that's when the press & media people start working
.
but at least there's ONE thing good,
tomorrow's Friday!
and we're going pressie shopping!
.
sooooo happy!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CrazyChristine!!!
.
stoooopid rain last night
if it wasn't pissing down so hard, we would have met up for your birthday celebration
will make up for it this weekend, alright!
.
but i'm sure you and FunnyVJ had a real romantic dinner

CONGRATS, CAV!
.
before I forget to wish you...
wish your new wife for me too yah
sorry I couldn't make it on Sat night
as you know, was asleep and resting at home
.
hope the party was GREAT even without me...