A Brand New Look

Another overdue assignment. A new blog look for the new year! Took me almost two hours to fine tune it!

A long overdue random post

What does this look like to you?

A normal stone?

Nope. It's a piece of my wall =(

Last year, as a "year-end bonus" for me, we bought a karaoke set. Finally! I had been waiting for a set for very long already cos I like to sing but hubby doesn't like so I cannot always drag him to kbox. The next day, hubby had to drill a hole into the wall to fix the brackets and the speaker on the topmost portion of our wall so that our small tv room wouldn't look so cramped. As the speaker was quite heavy, hubby decided to be more kiasu and drill a deeper hole into the wall.

As he drilled the hole using the electric driller, there was a sudden pok! sound and I went out to look and there on the floor was a few pieces of my beige wall from the other side, which is our study room! Ah bi drilled the hole so deep that the entire drill bit went into the wall!

I ran into our study room and saw a big gaping hole on the topmost part of the wall. But hubby fixed it up the next day with cement. Now there's no hole but a white patch over that area (cos we haven't bought beige paint to paint over it. When I saw what he did, I thought to myself, " Waaaaaa so hero...everything also know...from hanging speakers on the wall to fixing a hole in the wall."

Our secondhand BMB speakers

Our 1sthand Amplifier Mixer (Looks quite pro eh =P)

If you're reading this and are also interested to get one, can ask me for more details. We got ours at a very good deal cos we only bought a 1sthand amp mixer but 2ndhand speakers. Haha!

Happy birthday Wei Quan!

Last Saturday we went for our church's leaders' retreat at Sofitel JB. We were supposed to reach the airport at 9 plus to welcome quan back from Vietnam as part of his birthday celebration. We took Wendy and Mel's car, who were also trying to get home fast I guess but we ended up being later than late.

On the way out to the main expressway from the Kelong where we had our dinner, we lost our way and drove in circles for a while. When we finally got out and arrived in Singapore, it was already about close to 10pm. A few minutes after we said, "Yeahh we're finally out", we heard a loud pik piak! and the car kind of went lopsided for a while.

We had run over a big plank with nails and Mel's ture had puntured. Arghhh so we became later than late. It was pretty scary cos the cars were zooming so fast past us and the triangle sign we had placed a few metres away looked so small. While replacing the car tyre, another car ran into the same plank and yes, got a punctured tyre as well. It was a Muslim family and there was 4 ladies and only 1 guy so after changing our tyre, the guys on our side went over the help them. My bladder was then tighter than tight already.

So it was a very eventful journey out of Sofitel but thank God we didn't meet any robbers or something worse than a puntured tyre. Because we were late, we missed the best part - the welcoming for him at the arrival gates.

We're waiting for our Star!

See how happy they all looked. We're the Wei Quan fan club for the day so we were all dressed in pink. Except my hubby who didn't have time to change.

The celebrity

We had the complete fan club set- balloons with customised name, 'banners', garland, and even party string, which was quickly stowed away upon a stern glance from the police. Audrey and Heli made all the banners while Miin prepared the other 'props'.

See how happy the couple looks

Happy birthday Quan! It has been a great joy and blessing for us to know you and share God's word together during cell group. You have been an inspiration with your passion for God. Keep the fire burning in you and may God bless you, Miin and your families abundantly!

Baby Jack Russell

An update on the growth and development of the Christmas baby Jack Russell.

Newborn

His fur instead of being pure white looks yellowish. That's probably blood and the amniotic fluid that the mother will take a few days to thoroughly clean off.

Breastfeeding lessons

At birth, the pup doesn't know the existence of milk in the mother's nipples. That's hubby squeezing the milk out from ah mei's nipples and bringing baby to the milk to encourage him to suckle.

Success The pup learns to latch on to his mum's nipples. See his little tongue =)

Me n Pup

His eyes and ears are still closed. So he's probably blind and deaf at this moment.

2 weeks old

His ears have opened but not his eyes. You can see his fur is thoroughly dry and clean now.

Vampire (Jiang Shi) sleeping

They sleep alot at this stage.


In deeeeeep sleep

Proud mummy Baby is drinking milk again.

4 weeks old

See how much he has grown!



I'm falling.... Asleep

This is ah qiang our good friend who's also the owner, trying to coax baby to eat solid food. As you can see, the food wasn't very appealing to the pup who's fallen asleep.

Me, Mei and ah mei's baby haha

See how chubby his limbs are


Exploring

With mummy

Oh please give me some milk again

I can pose off as 101 Dalmatians

He's very chubby because as the only pup in this litter, he gets the milk from all 10 nipples. Technically only 6. The front 4 nipples are well, mm not very fruitful.


Fallen asleep again

And again

His fat tummy and crossed legs (kiau ka) makes me laugh

Lao gong was saying that baby's eyes looked blue and was worried that baby may be blind in one eye or both. There's a high possibility of defect cos this baby was born out of a dog and her own son. If baby can't find a new owner, she will have to be sent to Malaysia, where there's someone who wants to adopt him.

We're worried for baby as the conditions in Malaysia are not as good as singapore and the possiblity of baby being blind further complicates matters. We can't find anyone who wants a jack russell to date and we're at a dilemma whether to take him in ourselves. He was indeed a miracle baby who survived half an hour in a burst water bag and seeing him reminds me of how God answered our desperate prayers in the cab that night. But I already got 2 big dogs on my own how am I going to manage them with a hyperactive Jack Russell who may not even be easily toilet trained?

Oh help us God.

Long Overdue Post

Oh dear. i realise my blog posts these days always seem to be overdue. Haha will try to catch up on it.

This post is about our birthdays 2007. Mine falls on 5 Dec while my hubby is 5 days younger than me. His is on 10 Dec.

Our home cell's Dinner invitation to us

We were invited for a combo bday celebration to a restaurant of our choice and I chose....Sushi Tei!

Handmade Card from Mel

Doughnuts version of Birthday Cake
2 cakes from Four Leaves to represent 10 years each and six doughnuts to represent 1 year each. Aren't they creative...


Us being made to blow the candles from a distance

Half of the food
By the time the other half arrived, I was too busy eating to take pics of the rest of the food.


Choco and Coffee Balls in our mouths


Choco and Coffee Balls in their mouths

Special thanks to Mel and Ah Yun. They specially went to queue at the restaurant half an hour earlier to queue for a seat as Sushi Tei doesn't take reservations. Plus we were late for half an hour which means they waited a total of 1 hr for us!!!

Special thanks to my dear sis Yun also for having planned this whole event and coordinating everyone's busy schedules.

And to the rest of the cell who came, thank you for adjusting your schedules and taking time out to celebrate our birthdays with us.

To the rest who weren't able to come, thanks for all your well wishes and thoughts =)

3rd Dec- My Sec Sch Best Friend came to celebrate my birthday with me.

Da-baoed my favourite food over to my place

Chilli crab, fried kangkong and some special chicken. The carbos were for my hubby.


A handmade card from her

She secretly brought a photo printer and after taking a photo with me, she made me stay in the room while she printed the photo and slotted it into the card. Ain't that sweet =)

Ya we were sec sch husband and wife. I forgot how we formed that relationship though. But we're definitely not lesbians. It was just an establishment to show how close we were.


4 Dec Hubby brought me out

Seafood Dinner

With mussels, oysters, fish, prawns, calamari and I forgot what else

And I had a surprise waiting for me at home

I was pretty tired when we reached home but lao gong insisted on going to Cheers to get a drink and I was starting to throw a tantrum wondering why he was behaving so out of sorts. I mean he can just get a drink when we reached home why did he have to go a round about way to Cheers to get a drink?

When we were outside our house, I heard a birthday song playing but I didn't realise it was coming from the house. I didn't even realise it was a birthday song and thought it was just some Christmas ringtone from my neighbour's phone.

When lao gong opened the door, I saw on the platform a birthday cake and I was wondering who placed the cake there. I thought it was some surprise from lao gong. Then there was a lot of noise and next thing I know, I was attacked with party strings.

And there was...Audrey and Heli. Haha they made so much noise I thought there was..... well, more people.

And they gave me trick candles that can't be blown out...

Our Party, complete with Party hats and Masks

They felt that the surprise party was really small so they bought some party props to create the atmosphere.

Thank you Heli and Audrey. This was the first time in my life someone went to such extents to plan a surprise for me (besides our Home Cell). Really touched by your gestures. I had a really memorable 26th birthday!

Thank you lao gong too for bearing with my whines when you had to play along with the whole ploy and act like you didn't know anything the whole day!

10 Dec - Lao Gong's Bday

Hog's Breath @ Vivocity

He was genuinely surprised. Halfway thru the ploy was nearly exposed. We were supposed to reach at a time arranged between me and mei but lao gong suddenly wanted to look at watches. In order not to look suspicious, I just went along with his desires. So we were late from there.

After that when we got to the 4th level, I couldn't find the restaurant cos it was like hidden in a corner, which made us even more late. Heli (mei) then called us and asked whether we were reaching. When lao gong asked me who it was I had to say that it was someone from the restaurant and that if we don't hurry they were going to let go of my reservation. And he actually believed it. I thought that was a very lame lie but well....

Happy Family

Haha actually the kids are once again 'borrowed' from Wen and Mel our cell leaders. Wish we have a pair like that ahahaha

Our church cell

Special thanks to Heli who helped me coordinate the whole event.

A great thank you too to those who went just come back from Rain Camp on the same day. You all must have been so tired especially the camp committee and yet you made the effort to honor us with your presence.

And to everyone else who attended, a big thank you for making the evening a special one for hubby!

Thank you God for blessing us with these great friends!