My Wedding Anniversary Celebration

Last Friday was my 4th wedding anniversary.

Took leave on the day. Not to celebrate my anniversary but to attend my cousin sister’s lunch wedding. Coincidently, she had her ROM and traditional wedding on the same date as mine. So I brought Trenyce along for the lunch makan since she's on school holiday, idling at home. Everyone said Trenyce looked like me when I was young. I hope that’s a compliment :p

When we got home from the makan, it was about 2pm already. Both Trenyce and myself were so exhausted that we slept the moment our heads touched the bed. We had a long 3hrs nap! Haha….
When we woke up, it was 6pm….about time for dinner. Waited for hubby to return from work and went for a simple dinner. Not exactly a celebration, just dinner with hubby and my family - my inlaws and Trenyce. We went to one of the famous “chi zha” restaurant along AMK Ave 3 at St 22 (Blk 233) for their popular crab dish.
Ordered thai-style spicy fried chicken, yam ring, spinach with abalone mushroom, the famous soupy beehoon crab and a fried ngoh hiang dish. PILs only knew that it was our anniversary after the dinner. Wanted to catch a movie with hubby after the dinner but couldn’t find any interesting films so in the end we just went home and sleep! Haha.

That’s our anniversary celebration. Not bad. At least we went out for dinner. :p

My wedding anniversary

Its going to be my 4th wedding anniversary in 2days' time. Our marriage is so young but I feel like I have gone thru a lot with my hubby. The first 2 years were roller-coaster years…….I wouldn’t want to go into details of what has happened as the past is already history...

Anyway, I have already applied leave for that day as it coincides with my cousin sister's wedding (yeah, our wedding date is the same! haha) and we are invited to her wedding lunch. So in a way, its like she is celebrating my anniversary for me haha….The only thing is that my groom (hubby) is not around with me for the wedding otherwise, it really looks like my wedding anniversary makan…hahaha..

We havent decided how to spend our anniversary yet. I was just asking hubby in the car this morning how he planned to celebrate and he just gave me a smile, meaning he hasnt planned anything yet. Sigh! I grumbled to him in th car, for the fact that we are only married for 4 years and he's already this borchap….not romantic at all.... I am not even asking for diamonds or anything from him, just probably a nice dinner. Sigh! In fact, we have never celebrated our anniversaries. Sad huh. Usually, couples will celebrate their 1st 2 or 3 anniversaries..but me none! :'(

On our first anniversary, Trenyce was only 2 mths old and as a first-time mother I wouldn’t bear to leave her at home and go out to celebrate. Moreover I was the full-time caretaker then and I didn’t have anyone else to babysit for me……..

On our 2nd anniversary, my PILs were already staying with us and we were still trying to get used to them staying with us, felt a little awkward to get them to look after Trenyce while we go out and enjoy…and this awkwardness continue for the 3rd anniversary as well.

For our 4th anniversary, I don’t think I want to let it past just like that. I don’t mind even if we have to bring Trenyce along for our celebration, anyway she's part of our "marriage". Just that we will have to find some kiddy friendly restaurant. Then next year, we will have Kaden to join in the wagon hehe…. I think for all the efforts we have put into this marriage, we both deserve a pat on our shoulder and should celebrate the day!

Arguing again....

It was one of the days again I had a quarrel with hubby over Trenyce.

We brought Trenyce to Centerpoint today and she accidentally hurt herself at the escalator. I wasnt with her at that time as I was browsing around at the concourse on the offered items. Hubby was not interested and had brought her to 2nd floor to look for PILs. As I was movng near the escalators, I could hear some child crying. When I realised that it was my girl, I quickly catch up with them. It was some light but unsightly bruises caused by the sharp end of the escalator steps.... Little girl was still crying when I managed to catch up with them. There was small little blood markings on her leg, so I quickly apply some aloe vera on her leg to soothe her crying.

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I totally forgotten about the incident until the time when I was dresing Trenyce, preparing her for bed and saw the bruises again. I was quite upset that she got 'disfigured' again and grumbled a little at hubby. But instead of apologising, hubby blew his top and scolded me, saying that I left him with the girl and he had to hold his drink with the other hand...blabblabblab and couldnt manage properly that caused the incident. I was really mad that he shifted his responsibility away. Does that mean anyone with one hand full of things, will not be held responsible for the child's safety? Luckily it was just some light bruises this time round, what if it wasnt? The argument got really heated and worst of all, we quarrelled in front of Trenyce. We only stopped the argument when Trenyce started crying and telling hubby at the same time "dont scold my mummy"......

Then I just held her hand and brought her to the room to sleep quietly....

Normally, for situations like this, we dont apologise to each other instantly....we just let the anger goes off by itself. I wonder if its good but if we continue to argue over it, it doesnt prove to be any healthier to the relationship either.....Thank goodness, the anger usually doesnt last for more than a day and we will apologise the next day when we cool down.

Mine Birthday

Yeah, I am 30 Y.O. officially......hahahaha....

Hubby bought me a really nice bouquet of flowers and I cant wait to put it on the blog to show everyone....but your heart will 'bleed' when you hear the price...Well, that's normal for married couple isnt it...trying to spend more 'wisely' especially if you have kids and/or elderly parents at home....but sometimes we gotta turn a blind eye to what's your partner doing otherwise marriage life will be very boring right?

Here's my beautiful bouquet and the card (the tiny clips are so cute!)...hehehe...






And to those who's having birthdays in the month of February: "HAPPY BIRTHDAY! May all your dreams come true! Many happy returns to you!"

Post-dated Post 1: 29th Nov 2006

2005 Wedding Anniversary

Was chatting with hubby in the car this morning while on the way to the nearest MRT stn near my place. We were on the topic of our anniversary night dashing around to send my friend to catch her train. Then I recalled we had another exciting celebration last year too when my brother met an accident with sister’s 6months old Toyota Altis. Thank goodness he was alright but I cant say much for the car.

I vividly remembered I was on leave on that fateful day, again not purposely on leave to celebrate my anniversary but to bring Trenyce to KK hospital for her routine medical appointment. While I was about to enter the CTE, my phone rang. As I didn’t have my earpiece with me, I didn’t answer the call but just scanned the phone quickly to see whose calling. I saw my brother’s number appearing on the screen, which was quite a rare sight (he don’t normally call me on weekdays). Wondering what it could be (as my mother and sister are away on holiday at that time, I am the only sibling he could contact if anything happens), I asked my FIL to answer the call for me. What came out from the conversation was alarming - he had an accident somewhere near his office! Not wanting to worry my mother and sister, we decided to solve the problem ourselves. I went to fetch hubby from his office (he wasn’t on leave) before going down to see how extensive the damage was. There I saw the brand new Altis, quite badly in shape. It cant even move at all. According to bro, there were smoke coming out from the front. Odear. We followed the tow truck to the workshop to do all the necessary paperwork and left the place.

The toughest part of all was to break the news to my sister. We (me and bro) were hesitating on how to go about it. Initially, we wanted to wait for them to return from their trip as we were afraid that we will spoil their holidays but hubby said if we waited so long then inform them, they were surely get very mad. Afterall, sister is the car owner and she has every right to know what’s happening to her car. Of course, we understand hubby’s intention. In the end, we decided to call my auntie, who was with them for the holiday for her advice, to check on the situation. You know lah, bringing kids along for holiday may sometimes result in some small squabbles. We just want to make sure everything is in order before we release the news. of course, auntie advised us to tell them, so....Well, the rest as it says are history....

Lucky Charm

Have you ever heard of the 4 Leaves lucky clover pendant? Do you know that this was a proven lucky charm? I have first heard about it from some magazines and as a non-believer in this kind of lucky charm thingy, I didnt really believe much in its "effectiveness". So I didnt pay much attention on it until 2 mths ago, a colle in the office told us that she has struck 4D a couple of times after she bought the 4Leaves kaychain. Another friend of mine, whom I met up recently also told me the same thing that her sister had bought one for her mother and her mother ahd struck 4D a few times after that. Well, quite unbelievable, right?

I bought 1 for my hubby sometime in end-Sept06. Hubby didnt seem to progress well in the company as promotion opportunity was given to someone who had worked in the organisation many years earlier than him. You see, he and the other person were put on the promotion list together but only one of them would get it due to some reasons. At that time, he seems to be rather depressed so when I heard about the 4leaves thingy from my colle, I didnt heistate much to get one for him hoping that it will help to bring him some luck. Hey, if the husband did well in his career, me, the wife would get to benefit too right? hehe :p

Within a month after my hubby got the 4leaves keychain, his boss told him that they were relooking into his promotion and chances of him getting it was quite firm. But then not until he got the letter, would he get a peace of mind so he waited anxiously for the letter to arrive. Day after day, the letter finally arrived yesterday! Finally, I see him smiling :)

Subconsciously, I couldnt help but believe that this 4leaves thingy really brings luck to whoever is holding it!

Here is the one I got for my hubby. He keeps it together with his precious carkeys. He claims that it is the most important thing he will never leave home without it :p


For those who are interested to "wang fu", there is a few places in SG selling it:
1. Juliet Roberts
2. Pacing Luck

Good Luck! Cheers!

A friend's Visit + Exciting Wedding Anniversary

Thursday was my 3rd year wedding anniversay. I had an unusual celebration that day. No, it wasnt the conventional candle-light dinner. It was hmm....an exciting adventure!

Anyway, I took half a day leave from work, most would think its for celebration for my anniversary hehe...but it wasnt as a fren from Msia came to town, so I decided to take leave to bring her around. Hers was a short 2 day 1 night stay so I hope to grab the little time we had to catch up. She was working in Singapore for about 5years before she decided to marry her then Pahang boyfren, now hubby of her BB boy, Zhongxuan (Hope I got the name spelled right! :p). I havnt really seen her after she left Singapore 2 years ago. The last time I saw her was 2005CNY when she was about 4months preggy.

I brought her and Trenyce to the newly opened shopping mall, Vivocity. We shopped barely for 2hrs and had to leave for home at 5pm as my MIL had prepared dinner. We intended to send her to Tanjong Pagar Railway Station after the dinner. As I was afraid that we would hit the peak hour traffice jam, I suggest to take a cab home instead of MRT. Well, being new to the shopping mall, we had to search for the taxi stand and ended up at Harbourfront Taxi stand instead and oh my, it was such a queue! I decided to call for cab and the cab finally arrived 10minutes later (quite punctual). However, we were still caught in very heavy traffic due to some car accident and the taxi was practically crawling from CTE to our place. Back in the cab, I was so worried and kept praying that we would be able to rush home in time to dash to the Railway Stn. We finally reached home at 6pm, that was like almost an hour journey for a usual 20-minute ride home! We had a quick dinner and hubby and myself quickly rushed her to the station. Well, this time we were really caught in the normal peak hour traffic. My heart was beating so fast, soso worried that we would miss the train. Hubby was really calm. He assured me that we would be able to catch the train as the train would not be so punctual as it normally would delay a while and would not leave on time. But still, I was feeling very uneasy. I would nag at every traffic light, mumbling why the traffic light was so slow, praying that it would turn green soon. Guess what, we reach the Railway Stn exactly at 6.55pm, 5 minutes late and I was praying hard that the train would still be there as I ran as fast as I could to the gate. Well, the worst fear came true. The station master was closing the gate when we arrived and told us that the train had departed! OMG!

There was no other train stopping at Mentakab that night and the earliest train would be tmr morn 6am. Hubby then decided to sent her to JB to catch the train and if we really couldnt (becos SG-JB checkpoints would be very jammed at this hr), we still could send her to Larkin Bus Terminal to catch a bus back. So we quickly rushed back home to collect our passports and JB here we come! As we expected, the checkpoints were terribly jammed and by the time we crossed over to JB, it was already 8.30pm. The train had already gone far and so we were left with choice 2 - Larkin. We managed to get a 11pm ticket for her to Mentakab. Honestly, I was quite worried to leave her alone to take the bus but I supposed most msians are quite used to this kind of travelling. I told hubby I wouldnt dare to travel by myself and it was mainly becos I couldnt speak their national language, Bahasa Melayu.

We accompanied her till she boarded the bus around 10.40pm. By the time we reached SG, it was almost 12 midnight. What a way to "celebrate" my wedding anniversary haha!