Saturday, September 27, 2008
title:{Agatha! Agatha!}
This week was a hectic week for me. Wednesday, was a mad rush for Iain and I. After my oral duty, I had a meeting with the psychiatrist regarding my student's case. After that, we had to rush off to Thompson plaza for banking errands and buying present for Gina's birthday. Darling had to rush off back to his camp after dropping me off and managed to join the CG at International building for dinner. He arrived later than I expected and started to worry that he might be lost. Alas, he reached the restuarant at 8.45p.m. Never did I expect that he would give me a surprise. He bought a pair of Agatha white hairclips and a brown Muchas hair clip with a delicate crystal stub. I was amazed by his effort and taste. I mean, how many guys know what these kinds of stuffs. Agatha, Muchas hair clips...... I have admitted that my hubby's fashion sense is good and I really love the hair clips especially the Agatha ones. I simply love the terrier shape!
Poor darling, down with throat infection after over strained his vocal on Thursday. Managed to assign his class with some work and relief them at the last period of the day. Manvin, one of the naughty cheeky kids addressed me as Mrs Lok. Render speechless, thinking to myself, do I look that old? Mrs Lok!? I was tempted to correct him that it should be Mrs Iain Wong, not Mrs Lok! Ha ha...... Bet that he wouldn't be surprised as he always wait for us the foyer, greeting us with his cheeky smile. Anyway, I'm glad that I'm manage to "escape" from school without being seen by Ariel. Ha ha...... I manage to end my remedial class at 3.30p.m. and left school early. Rush back home to continue to amend my EPMS. Almost drain out my brain juice and didn't manage to sleep for a day! I'm surprised that I've managed to survive my day well with only 2 hours nap. Caffine does the trick!
Looking forward to have my kimchi! Yum yum......
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
title:{depress again}
Monday blues has extended to Tuesday. Sigh...... What a day to start with a parent's phone call at 6.45am telling me that her son did not complete his work. Complaining about me giving too much homework to his son. In fact, it's only 2 maths worksheets and 1 OE comprehension. The best thing is that the math's topic is on graph and one page consist of 1 question and there's only 11 short questions. The comprehension is a piece of cake since it's from the workbook. I see no reason why he can't complete his work at home. This is the second time that his mum asked me to excuse her precious spoilt brat. I reckon she spoilt him to the core, fancy to bring him to India in the midst of CA exams. The most outrageous thing was, she even has the cheek to ask me when was the school holidays and wishes to extend her trip till the end of September holidays. I was fuming mad and thinking what's in her mind. Furthermore, she even dared to lie to me that she's preparing her son for his Mother Tongue exam. Thinking that I'll buy her story, I told her off, telling her that she's suppose to prepare her son for English oral examination instead of Mother Tongue examination which is in 2 days time. How I wish that I could knock some sense into her brain.
Anyway, enough of complaining about her, I had a terrible time in school today > _< class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">accumulating on my desk. I started to feel panicky and realised that there's lots of marking to do! Oh my! Left with no alternative, I have pack ONE CARTON and ONE BIG BAG FULL of books and worksheet home to mark. In fact, there's a few piles on my desk too.
Honestly speaking, I don't really enjoy my work beside knowing my hubby in school. I feel that it's hard to find a so called friend in your workplace. Maybe like what Iain said we can only find true friend in school not in workplace. Ultimately, there's a line between work and friends. I feel so terrible and lonely. I miss Michelle!! Thank God, I still have Iain by my side, listening to me and always cheering me up in work. How I wish I could do more for Iain just as much as what he has done for me.
Monday, September 15, 2008
title:{Bridal Studio Shopping}
We have been searching and researching for bridal services. We kinda of realised that every shops offer similar services, except for the gown and photography style. Research have been done online and we kind of considered Precious Moment at Thompson. We drove down and thought of meet up the staff to find out more. When we reach there, the sale assistant simply refuse to serve us and told us to called up to make appointment. I was so pissed off and was disappointed by their service as there was many accolades for their good service. Apparently not, their service suck! They could simply fixed an appointment date with us on the spot instead of giving us a name card and insisted that we should call to fix an appointment. We left the place with disappointment and headed to Thompson bridal. Their services are so expensive and the photography is ..... no comments.
In the end, we ended up at Seletar Broadway, which is just opposite my block! Iain likes their photography and their offer was attractive and reasonable. After much hesitation, the sale assistant keeps throwing freebies and cash discount for us. Dar really squeezed them dry and we secured lots of goodies! We decided to sign up with them. We like the idea of made to measure gown which we can design our own gown and most importantly, there's no time limit in holding the package. We were happy with the unlimted time frame as we planned to have our customery wedding in 2010.
Thank God for His wonderful blessing!
Sunday, September 14, 2008
title:{Happy 1 month anniversary}
Happy 1 month anniversary, dear! We had a long in school on Friday. After the PSLE listening comprehension exams, we have to stay back in school to prepare Mid Autumn Festival Celebration as Minister of Health and the media were coming over for visitation. Iain and I had a mad rush throughout since morning till late night. We have to be in school at 7am to prepare listening comprehension exams. After that, I had a science committee meeting which lasted 1 hour. Iain managed to go Causeway Point to grab lunch for me. So sweet of darling. After that, we went to Mandai Orchid Garden to meet Christain to discuss the solemenzation package. We like the package and services very much and had decided to book the venue.
After a long day of work and wa yang in school, we reached home at around 11p.m. We were so tired and couldn't really open our eyes. Dar, suggested that we'll go Mac for celebration of our 1st month anniversary. I knew that he was just kidding and just played along with him. In fact, it was Iain's mummy who spilled out the beans. Ha ha... So mummy killed the surprise.
We headed down to Sentosa, KM8, the place where we first dated. There wasn't much people at KM8 cos it was already closed and we sat at the sun chair to chill. It was so thoughtful of dar to prepare cake, wine and flowers! It's so romantic! The tight schedule has compelled Iain to be creatived and yet romantic. I was touch and yet feel so guilty for not doing much for him. Darling bought a Kate Spade wallet for me! Hee hee... It's my very first red wallet! I bought him a Tommy Hilfiger polo tee.
We went to bridal fair at Suntec in the evening. We visited 3 booths and decided to head home. The sale assistants were into hard core sale which drained 3/4 of our brain juice. At the end of the 1.5 hours, we were brain dead. Headed to Cinileisure for late dinner and movie, Step brothers. It's super corny. Got to work on my EPMS now.
Thursday, September 11, 2008
title:{Depress}
My heart sank when my friend asked why do Iain and I want to rush into marriage and what makes me think that I am not a float to Iain. This stroked me real hard.
Later did I know that there are people around us feel that we are too fast to get married, commenting that I'm a control freak, I'm the third party that causes Iain and his ex to broke off. As a matter of fact, I'm NOT THIRD PARTY. I got together with Iain after he broke off with his ex and mine. We were then single and fall in love. And, I'm not a CONTROL freak! I didn't hold a AK74 and pointed at Iain's forehead to have him proposed to me. We just feel that we are the right one for one another and we look forward for union.
Iain and I always discuss things and talk things out. I can never hide my emotions from him. For instance, he knew that I was depressed when he called me earlier. Immediately, he rush down from his camp to St. Micheal to fetch me and talk to me. I was impressed by his discerns without me telling him anything, he already knew what I'm facing through. I almost cried out when I told him what had happened and others' comments and perceptions.
Maybe I was overly paranoid and feared that this marriage will not work out. After hearing what he said, I felt so much better. As regards to the issue of being a float, Iain commented he could simply date me as a girl friend and why would he bother to propose to me and tell the whole world that we are getting married.
Maybe I should heed his mummy's advice, just ignored what others say about you. As long as you love each other truly, who cares. What mattered most is our conscience is clear.
Monday, September 08, 2008
title:{Grandma's 87th birthday celebration}
Spent my day with Iain yesterday running around town, getting our errands done. It was a fruitful day and we managed to bring Ginger to Bishan Park to play.
We sent his cousin back home and headed straight to church. We were very late for church but manage to grab a seat. Thankfully, We got the front row which everyone dies to get it. It was such a coincidence to meet Crispen, my poly friend there too. Ha ha... he was forced to give up the seats for us lol. I'm glad that Iain is now not only my husband to be but also my spiritual baby. Pray that he will grow in the Lord and serve in the church.
After church, Iain went for tuition while I waited for him at Novena square. Spent my afternoon doing lesson plan and shopped around. Dear dear is so sweet, he bought mooncakes for my family. Drool... DOUBLE EGG YOLK k. Went to Far East Flora to get a bouquet of flowers for mama. It's a good buy with lots of varieties of flowers which costs only 20 bucks!
We managed to rush home to send our baby Ginger to Bishan Park and I finally met Shufen's dog-Jojo. As I have to prepare for mooncakes for my future mummy-in-law, Iain had to leave Ginger in Felicia's care while we make a move down back home only to realise that Mummy is almost done with the mooncakes and refused to let clumsy me into her precious kitchen. However, mummy is really nice to have prepared the mooncakes on my behalf. That gave me the time to take a quick shower and then head back to Bishan Park to attend to Ginger.
When we arrived at Bishan, poor Ginger was frantically looking around for us. He was all wet and muddy from all that playing and got really excited upon seeing us. He jumped on me and landed his big and muddy paws on my clothes. Puzzled by his unusually affectionate behaviour, it all kind of made sense when Felicia and Shufen told us what had happened during our absence. Apparently, there were two horny gay doggies who has been bugging Ginger constantly. They kept harassing and trying to jump on my poor darling. Ginger tried to resist their advances by sticking very close to us, but to no avail. Trying to separate them is an uphill task as the owner of the Samoyed is doing absolutely nothing to curb her doggy's raging hormones. All she did is just making a feeble effort to scold him and then continuing with her multi-million phone call with her pal. Anyway, we brought Ginger back home shortly after and gave him a nice bath. He felt much better at home and was pretty much back to his normal self in no time.
After bathing our baby Ginger, we headed down to Bedok to my uncle's house to meet up with my relatives to celebrate mama's 87th birthday. Sad to say that yeye's memory power is failing and started to be senile. We had a great commotion before heading down to the restaurant. All went well and we had a sumptuous dinner. It was a remarkable day for Iain and I as it was our first family dinner and birthday celebration that we attended as an item. I'm glad that everyone loves Iain espeacially my cousins, who are willing to communicate with him. Seems like Iain is not only an auntie killer but also 小孩 killer. Ho ho......
After dinner, we rushed down to Sommerville to fetch his mummy. Mummy went JB shopping with God ma and bought lots of stuffs back. Mummy bought mooncakes for my family, so sweet and thoughful of her. I'm so bless to have such sweet and darling mother in law. Hee hee...... Drove back home and stay over at their place for the very first time to do lesson plan. Mummy is so caring and woke up super early to prepare breakfast for us. Aww...... feel so loved by mummy and dear dear!
Saturday, September 06, 2008
title:{Blissily busy}
For the past week, Iain and I were busy with marking exam scripts, preparing for our ROM, meeting parents. I'm glad that we fully utilised our one week break to get things done.
Iain suggested that I should record the dates and things that we have accomplished. It's kinda of tough as we are so busy with work and preparation. I shall try my best to recall the important dates.
Some where in mid-late July.
Iain invited me to join Huiping, Jumari, King Yang and him for dinner after school. At the point of time, we were neutral towards to each other. Our relationship is just purely colleauges and nothing much. It was such an coincidence, we happend to bump into Liana that day as Iain and I went to his car to take his phone. Briefly intro Na to Iain.
1 August 2008
Iain invited me to join Kumar, Kamaliah for movie. We went to watch Mummy 3 at "The Cathay". Hang out with Iain after the movie till 4am, chatting at a cafe off Selegie Road. It was a light hearted moment chatting with him and our friendship has move to another level up.
8 August 2008
Su Xuan, Lava, Kumar, Iain and I headed down to "The Arena" to club. Kumar never fails to tease Iain and I, trying hard to match us up. At the point of time, I can sense that Iain is somehow a little interested in me, nevertheless, I brushed it off. Iain invited to me meet his dog, Ginger at Sentosa.
9 August 2008
Meet up with Iain and Ginger at Sentosa and had a great time playing them in the late afternoon. Iain suggested to have a marking session since it was a long weekend and we both work well at night. After dinner, meet up with Iain to do marking at Mac till 5a.m. *if I didn't remember wrongly*
10 August 2008
We meet up again to do marking at airport. This time round, we ended early and finished marking till 2a.m.
12 August 2008
Iain suggested to have chilled out session after I broke clean with XH. We headed to Holland Village for Coffee club. We started to have heartfelt chat and he express his feelings to me! I was stubbed at that moment, not knowing how to react. The warmth of Iain's grip just melted my heart. We drove back home and I started to 'interrogate' him and confessed that I'm kinda of interested in him and think that it's possible to progress further.
14 August 2008
I invited Iain to drop by my house to visit my cats and my mum. Mummy likes him at first sight and started to question me about us. Dad was excited but kinda of worried as he just saw him through a glance from his car.
16 August 2008
Iain invited me back to his house to meet his family. His mum and dad are such a darling! Nice and sweet folks. His sisters are so nice to me especially his eldest sis. We went to Dempsey Road for a chilled out and had wine at 'Wine Network'.
17 August 2008 around 2.30a.m
We drove to Mt. Faber and Iain propose to me in his car! Without hesitation, I agreed! It's kinda of crazy but there's a strong feeling which I can't beat off-We are meant to be and we foreseen that this marriage is gonna to work out. I can vividly remember his proposal line: Sandra, I know that you're the one for me and I really want to spend the rest of my life with you. Will you marry me? FYI, he didn't prepared flowers nor proposal ring but he got something which is the most important-sincerity.
Late afternoon......
We went to Bishan to shop for wedding bands at Citi gems. We had a big issue upon buying the rings but managed to resolve it. I was surprised by my own reaction as I would have called off the whole engagement and walked off in the past. I guess that Iain has changed me in certain ways especially on reasoning rationale and being more understanding.
23 August 2008 collection of rings
This was the day that Iain collected the ring and we were supposed to go out. We were so beat after a long day of CCA and marking. and headed home to rest. I've tried calling him for hours but didn't manage to get through. Feeling tired, I went to back to sleep. In the midst of my beauty sleep, the door bell rang and I saw Iain holding a bouquet of blue roses. I was shocked and hoping that he's not going to put on the ring for me now as I was in my pyjamas. Well, he did!! My hair was all over me and my mouth stink with just out of bed breathe! How glamorous and how could I ever forget! Ha ha......
24 August 2008 pouring of blessing
Visitation to grandma and grandpa. Both were happy with Iain and Mama was smiling non stop upon seeing Iain. I know that she likes him when I saw the looks on her face. Thank God that she did not ask me dumped Iain like the last relationship. Phew...... Thank God that dear dear manage to pass Mama's test. Iain and I bought Yi Quan, mum and bro to 'Earth Cafe' with Ginger for dinner. Mummy saw the wedding band on our hand and gave me a cheeky look.
Mummy cracked a joke and said "So, what kind of stone of that? Crystal or gems?" Felt offended, I retorted "What?! It's diamond, ok! Iain bought it with his hard earn money." Mummy smiled cheeky and ask why I wore the ring on my left hand fourth finger. Iain and I smiled sheepishly. we gazed at each other and decided to tell my mum that we were engaged. Mum was happy and couldn't help smiling. Iain promised mummy that he will take good care of me and want to make me happy. Mummy looked at me ask "Girl, you ok?" I nodded my head.
"Since you're ok, I'm ok. As long as you're happy." Mummy smiled. Finally, we got blessing from my mum. Called up dad to announce this news to him as he was in overseas. He render speechless and was happy for us.
Went back to Iain's house and told his parents about our engagement. They were very happy and shocked. I will never forget what his mum said to me. "So fast! As long as both of you love each other wholeheartedly, I'm happy. Most importantly, don't bother about what other said as long as both of you are true to each other. " I almost cried out when I heard this. I'm wonderfully blessed to have such a liberal and understanding mother in law.
29 August 2008-Announcement day
This is our very year to celebrate Teachers' Day together. Iain and I have been caution not wanting to let others know about our relationship. After the Teachers' Day dinner, we headed down to 'The Arena' with Kelly, Churu, King Yang, Kumar, Su Xuan, Ivory and Jumari. Churu and Kelly kinda of suspected that Iain was interested in me and started to question Ivory whether I had a boyfriend. Knowing that we were dating together and not wanting too many people to know about it. Ivory gave a political right answer, 'Yes". Iain and I headed to the dance floor and were dancing intimately. Just at the moment, I finished kissing Iain, my eyes caught King Yang. He was totally disgusted, whispered to Kelly and walk out off. Kumar and Su Xuan shook their head as a sign, it's too late with the typical look -You got to tell them the truth! Left with no alternatively, we announced to the gang that we were engaged and there was a moment of silence. Everyone was shocked! We loved to see that expressions! Anyway, they were happy for us!
31 August 2008
Parents meeting day! Both our parents meet up for breakfast. Mind you, Iain's mum and my mum are like long lost friends! I guessed that they have common topics to chat since they used to live in the same area and my grandma used to patronise Iain's grandpa TMC. Iain and I were glad that everything went smoothly.
2 September 2008
Check out the ROM-Mandai Orchid Garden. Our very first bible study with Victor.
3 Septemeber 2008
Bought my ROM gown at Marina Square and meet up with Zhiyi at AMK hub.
5 September 2008
Mrs Ho caught hold of me and asked how was things between Iain and me. She long noticed that Iain was interested in me and constanly encouraged me to hold on dear to him. In fact, she was the first person who noticed it in the office. Mrs Ho told me that she has been praying for us, hoping that we will be together. During lunch time, we decided to come clean with Mrs Ho and told her that we were engaged. She was so happy and praised the Lord for answering 3/4 of her prayer. We managed to found out that remaining 1/4 of her prayer was for us to get married and have children and live happily. We told her that we wanted her husband to solemnised our civil wedding on 4th July 2009. Mrs Ho was happy and so trilled! We are glad that we have blessing from Mrs Ho as she's a pastor's wife. Nothing beats blessing from spiritual elders in church.