A Look Back At Resolutions For 2007

Its New Year's eve and I'm gonna be spending it with the wifey and the wifey alone, in a couple of hours time!

Our (My) grand masterplan is to go to the Marina Bay Golf Course at 11+ , by which time I'm expecting it to be closed. From the 3rd and 4th stories of the driving range, you can get a good view of Marina Bay (else the name?) and the city. Hopefully there arn't too many people as brilliant as my good self. A nice snack (unhealthy potato chips and beverage) should top up the night to be a memorable one.

Dun copy me ah!

Anyway, at the beginning of the year, I came up with my 2007 resolutions. Luckily I have only three and I can look back and say that I've met most of them (2/3 isn't too bad!).

1. Succeeded! Only because I drive less too.

2. This one I didn't meet. Almost, but didn't. But I'm happy with my performance anyways.

3. Succeeded! Myaybe I'm maturing.

Well, I'll be coming up with my 2008 resos soon so watch this space! Meanwhile I gotta give up the computer for the wifey to write her final blog of 2007 too!

Cya 2007, happy new year everyone!!!

Testing Testing From Compassvale

My internet connection is finally up! Here in Sengkang!

Yay!

Going back to work soon.

Boo!

Merry Christmas Everyone!

I better post this fast.

Merry Christmas everyone!!!

Spent Christmas eve at Bock Lian's place last night and got back to Sengkang only around 4am. Its finally in liveable conditions (by my standards!) and its coming up quite nicely.

Nonetheless more work needs to be done and thankfully I've got till the New Year to continue slogging on the new home!

Just subscribed to StarHub's MaxOnline dunno if its any good but if all goes well, I'll be online in Sengkang by Thursday!

:)

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Ok, so its not exactly PGA material, but! My best ever score on an 18-hole golf course.

Went to SouthLinks in Batam today with the boyz and had a fantastic time. I think I'm definitely improving and my tee-offs are getting pretty okay! The irons are looking good after I switched from 5/7 to 4/6. Putting let me down a wee bit though.

I even had a par on the 4th hole! Though hole 8 I was playing ping-pong between two bunkers with the flag in between. Tony himself hit a sub 100 for the first time while Youlong's putting killed him (if not he should have done much better).

We finished the course in a little under 4 hours, got baked in the sun, lost only 4 balls, and slept most of the journey back (okay I'm really tired but I couldn't sleep due to the lousy boat ride back, but the other two did!).

Maybe its time to take golf a wee bit more seriously.

Sengkang Resident

Sengkanger?

Sengkangite?

Sengkangian?

They all don't sound very nice.

Nonetheless, I am now a Sengkang resident. Not fully moved in, but I officially spent my first night in my new home over the weekend.We spent the weekend painting (yet again) and we're STILL not fully done yet. Left with one last room.

The TV also came early evening today and its huge! So happy that at least that's one of our key requirements fulfilled. We'll have to wait for the next month's salary to cash in before we can think about what to get next. So now we still make do without a fridge, any beds, sofa set and cable/internet connection.

So happy with our home location. We're walking distance between Compass Point in front and Rivervale Plaza at the back. Walked to both places to recce over the weekend. All that complemented by a really good coffee shop beside out MSCP. We'll never go hungry!

Our neighbours are really friendly too, except for a barking dog by the name of Jackie. He'll bark at any of you if you ever do visit, but bare with it, for hit helps not only our neighbours but us as well to guard our cosy little corner.

The house is also windy as hell. Last night we had to sleep on the cold hard floor only with my company's beach mats to rest on (wasn't helpful). I had to eventually switch the fan off because it was already so cold and we had to resort to using some old curtains (which we wanted to dispose of) as blankets. Brrrr!

That's about it. But if I haven't personally told you already, Sengkang is definitely gonna be the next Bishan! This little enclave in the North-eastern end of Singapore may seem ulu papaya to alot of you, but with the limited time I've spent here, I see red-hot potential.

The demographic is just starting to ripen, mainly young couples and young families all over the neighbourhood. Its very public transport oriented (LRT, NEL, lotsa bicycles and bus services). The crowds at its malls are teeming with people daily, clearly shouting for more facilities to be built. Sports complex and Town council building coming up in 2008. KPE linking straight to ECP. Punggol Marina (at least they're serious this time!). Good pri and sec schools. And (surprise!) condos and private property coming up in the area.

Most of these you don't have to be a genius to figure out once you drop by for a visit. But its also probably the only suburb thats got its own website as www.sengkang.com

Haha. Ok, anymore ranting and its all gonna look like a sales pitch from me.

Let me know if you're my neighbour!!!

A New Beginning

Ok. So I have been too busy to blog about what could probably be one of the most significant events of my life. But painting a 5-room flat is plain tough can?!

I'll make it up with pictures...

Anyway, the knot's tied and we've went through our ROM sailing really smoothly! There're some nice pictures and I'm so glad we got a really good photographer cuz its really just so important. The solemnization was short yet meaningful and we had a feastful dinner after that at that Suntec Chinese restaurant that I can never remember its name. Both our families met for the first time that day and it was a better-than-expected meet-up.

These are some of the many pictures our photographer took. If these arn't excellent artistic shots, I don't know what are...

Here's my favourite pic...that's my mum right there...

We also got our house keys!

Been too busy painting the house to blog about much of it. But we spent Friday and Sunday painting while I fitted a Saxo golf game at Bintan in between (was way fun too!).

K lah that's all for the update. If you are interested in our photographer just let me know.

Productive Day #3

This is getting somewhat lifeless.

Yet another day of trading and packing up stuff. Today we packed boxes and boxes of books. So many books of yesteryear I never thought I'd keep (well, mom kept them for me). Nice to see them again and will be shipping the whole load to the new home.

I've got enough childrens' books to last 10 generations.

Then it was off to Ang Mo Kio Hub to watch Enchanted. Its not too bad. If you're still suffering from Stardust withdrawal and want more of such sugary shows, Enchanted is good enough to satiate that lovey-dovey appetite. I give it 3 1/2 popcorns. Not as good as Stardust but the song and happiness of the show is somewhat worth it. Guaranteed to make any moviegoer smile from ear to ear.

Thats my short post for today (as you can see, I'm getting lazier by the day).

Productive Day #2

Its funny how I find it a chore to blog consecutive days and yet I actually kept a diary from my days in army all the way till just before I started working. Only then did I stop.

Anyway, today was another productive day of packing. This time around mom brought out all my rubbish from the store (all 5 boxes with more to come!) for me to sort and decide what I wanted to keep and what I wanted to throw.

So it was a nostalgic trip down memory lane. Little momentoes, gifts and souvenoirs (lotsa which I had to throw, unless I wanted something to argue about for the rest of my life!), along with my old textbooks, old worksheets and many other rubbish that I never thought I'd keep, all had to be sorted. I also realised what a great poet I once was, what with my assortment of little rhyming 4-liners since secondary school (there's one about Jinde even!) all the way till my university days. Made me wonder where my muse has fluttered to. But I've got enough leftover to fill a little Enid Blyton book at least. After 4 tiring hours, I managed to trim the stuff down by half, all of which I have to move over to my new place.

Afterthat I went out to fetch the dear to meet the hotel fella. So its final. We're picking Novotel @ Liang Court as our wedding venue. It's gonna be on Friday, 10th of October 2008. If you've got suggestions for some other place and date (as most people do), save them for your own wedding. The dear loves it, pillarless ballroom, auspicious date, great package, nice food, the works. Contract's been signed. It happened so fast I don't even remember signing that piece of paper.

It's gonna be quite an exciting time leading up till then, but I would think our next priority is the house, and our ROM, which is coming up in 2 weeks!!! So it feels great to get this monkey outta the way.

Meanwhile, its back to thinking of lala-land. Been thinking about it quite abit. Its not very likely, but the very thought of it gets me all pumped up and excited. I wonder how this dream will be crushed?

Productive Day #1

I'm on a whole week's worth of leave and I'm trying to make the most of it!

Spent the whole morning and afternoon packing my jungle of a table. All my bank statements and transaction receipts were piled in a huge mountain dating as far back as Dec 06! So it was quite hard work and took me several hours just to get them all sorted out.

Then I went out to ECP to JOG! Wow. I was really unfit, but knowing that next week's reservist included an IPPT test, maybe I should just try to pass it at the very first attempt for this year's window? Anyway, I ran for only 20minutes and then took another half an hour to walk back home. Hee...

But I wasn't done! I went to the gym to lift a bit of weights too! So proud of myself. Managed 3 pull-ups (gotta start 'em slow) and 20 sit-ups. Almost died.

Went to Parkway around 9.30 to pay some credit card bills (believe me, they are mounting rapidly). Ended up buying Old Chung Kee curry puffs for everyone at home!

Afterthat I watched episode 3 of Heroes on tv. Awesome stuff.

Haiz, guess that's my kind of exciting day.

*I want to go off to a faraway land!*

Rare Friday

Rare indeed. One of the first few Fridays in several months where I'm not out trying to destroy my liver.

Today a friend told me that I looked less energetic about my job these days. Gone are the days when I had that inquisitive enthusiasm and proactive lets-make-it-happen attitude. And as much as I didn't want to admit it, she was kinda right. Its time to do some soul-searching. Back to the drawing board for now. Maybe I've got too much of other going-ons to think about right now. At least I have a new pilot project to look forward to, albeit being more saigang than anything, but at least I learn more and don't sit still.

For the umpteenth time, please go watch Stardust the movie before it ends its run here. Its just too beautiful a movie to miss. Once again remember to bring that significant other along with you. Ending's a little cheesy though so treat this fairy tale kind.

Tommorrow is our inaugural Saxo Soccer Saturday. It's kinda drizzling right now but hopefully the morning's gonna be fine so at least I can burn some calories on the court. And it does seem like quite alot of people are gonna be there. I even went to buy an extra ball just in case.

Earlier the Dear and I met up with our ROM photographer at Suntec. Nice of him to get to know us before our big day. Even brought him to Pan Pacific to see our suite.

That brings me to our BIG day! Its the 1st of Dec! So fast! Feel abit unprepared. But hey, where is the fun if life were served up nicely in a plate? Now to go online and see how to phrase my wedding vows...

Dec 7th we have our 2nd appointment for exchange of keys. Finally! We can move into our new flat in Sengkang! I've got it all planned out. We're gonna spend the first weekend cleaning our flat till we're tired and fall asleep on the empty floors of our new home!!! Sounds so fun, sleeping bags and all. Maybe we'll have a wall where we paint our own favourite pictures! And then there's the shopping for furniture! Every month we get to buy bit by bit when our pay comes in...hahaha.

K, done ranting. Sun please come out tommorrow morning!!!