Monday blues post

Was just scrolling through the activities on my runkeeper. Not a consistent jogger at all.. some months twice or thrice...some months can be dry till none. Well, at least I have my kickboxing once a week then. Now that classes have ended, I really gotta get back to my jogging routine.

My new workplace to home is actually only 7km. Very manageable distance. Been jogging a little more last week but think I shall space it out abit. My heel spurs seemed to have subsided a little but the funny thing is that I don't feel the pain when I'm jogging. Doc said that nobody knows how heel spurs come about but it could be due to over-jogging or over straining certain ligaments or muscles, just like tennis elbow condition. It usually comes and goes so not a big concern. My ONLY concern is that due to the protruding heel bone, I have to refrain from wearing covered shoes to work as the pain comes from increased friction of the heel and the back of the shoes.

Cheemonology. Anyways, better be safe than sorry.. I'm gonna space out my jogs.

Once past 30 years old, you'll expect weird little funny friends, illness, pains, aches come knocking at your door.

Ya..staycation is fine. but not permanent resident k.

stay true to who you are

... a motto that resonates strongly with how I'm feeling now.

the changes in people I work with affects me the most... as expected since i'm a feeeee-ling person.

starting all over trying to accustom myself to making small talk with new colleagues, getting to know peers better is a forgotten chapter which I've never revised in 5 years. Time to hit the books. 

I figured out today (in my really lethargic state...where my eyelids felt like they weighed wanton) that people I would be able to get along with, will come by naturally. I'm a sociable person by nature and I just need to stay true to myself and not become someone I am not. 

At the end of the day, one will never regret staying true to yourself. If that gets you like-minded friends, you know for sure they are REAL friends. But if it doesn't, at least you know you're respecting yourself as a unique individual. 

Life goes on. 

Coincidentally, Lenka's my latest addiction on iphone and her song tells the story perfectly.

The Show - Lenka

I'm just a little bit caught in the middle

Life is a maze and love is a riddle

I don't know where to go, can't do it alone

I've tried and I don't know why

Slow it down, make it stop or else my heart is going to pop

'Cause it's too much, yeah it's a lot to be something I'm not

I'm a fool out of love 'cause I just can't get enough

I'm just a little bit caught in the middle

Life is a maze and love is a riddle

I don't know where to go, can't do it alone

I've tried and I don't know why

I'm just a little girl lost in the moment

I'm so scared but I don't show it

I can't figure it out, it's bringing me down

I know I've got to let it go and just enjoy the show

The sun is hot in the sky just like a giant spotlight

The people follow the signs and synchronize in time

It's a joke nobody knows, they've got a ticket to the show

Yeah, I'm just a little bit caught in the middle

Life is a maze and love is a riddle

I don't know where to go, can't do it alone

I've tried and I don't know why

I'm just a little girl lost in the moment

I'm so scared but I don't show it

I can't figure it out, it's bringing me down

I know I've got to let it go and just enjoy the show

Just enjoy the show

I'm just a little bit caught in the middle

Life is a maze and love is a riddle

I don't know where to go, can't do it alone

I've tried and I don't know why

I'm just a little girl lost in the moment

I'm so scared but I don't show it

I can't figure it out, it's bringing me down

I know I've got to let it go and just enjoy the show

Just enjoy the show, just enjoy the show

I want my money back, I want my money back

I want my money back, just enjoy the show

I want my money back, I want my money back

I want my money back, just enjoy the show

A.fresh m0chi

I'm so putting on weight at my new work place. But then again, I do a fair bit of exercise everyday to get to work now.

Walk to bus stop - Get on bus - Climb up the double deck stairs - Sit for 35min - Go down the stairs - Alight -  Cross the overhead bridge - go down another flight of stairs - trudge through carparks - check out roosters and hens along the way - if cute, snap photos - continue to aruite - stop - fish for coins to buy tehC - cross the road - scale over another huge heavy vehicle car park - open the gate - climb up a ramp followed by another short flight of stairs - say HI to security guard, yes, i'm finally in the compound - open doors to side staircase to building - take stairs to 2nd floor

I burn quite a lot of calories during lunch as well. Thanks to the blazing heat and walking to the coffeeshops around the area. while eating also perspire..so double burn? I think so.

I foresee it'd be abit more bearable soon as I end my normadic lifestyle shuttling between 2 offices lugging my laptop. 

Life afresh.refresh.

NS hut - opening ceremony 23 May 2012

What a feeling. To sign a load of papers to authorise HDB to wipe out 10 years worth of CPF accumulated through sweat and hard work. Coughed out 82K in total. Amen. The process was chope chope..all done in half an hour.

In exchange, we were proud owners of 20 keys to our first asset... maybe the only one coz the insane price of just enslaved us to it.

negatives aside. we were...or I was (ES was still in disbelief) pretty excited as we chiong down to our new place to open sesame. My Otosan had everything prepared and drove us down. Arigatou ne.

Before opening and entering the house...... gotta zoh gang k. 

Step 1: Prepare outside the house. Pour salt, rice and water into a NEW small basin. Drop the pomegranate leaves into the mixture. 


Step 2: Prepare outside the house. Prepare 5 oranges with paper plate, a metal container for burning the incense, lighter, 3 joss sticks and some incense (just buy a little.. not too big a packet. just tell the uncle at the shop your purpose and he should be able to advise u). 

Step 3: Pray, facing the sky with the joss sticks. Poke the joss sticks into one of the oranges. Leave it outside the house.

Step3: Burn the papers in the metal container. Ensure all well burnt before opening the door.

Step 4: Knock Loudly on the door and you may shout, Huat ah... or I am coming in now!!

Step5: Open ALL the doors and windows in the house. Sprinkle the water mixture along with some rice using the leaves at all corners of the house. Using a small hammer... yes, a hammer, hammer all corners of the house.. along the corners of the rooms and floor... and walls as well. This is suppose to cleanse the place and to announce our arrival and start of renovation. Done!

preparing all the barangs...didn't know gotta prepare so many things! 

20 keys to our new hangout.

our hut. literally. 100sqm.

our kitchen

before living room

raw and naked floors...

Bay window at our master bedroom.

View from our master bedroom

another view of our master BR...really no space to work with man.. the aircon  ledge window is the space killer

the air con ledge. 

the common toilet.... super huge compared to master BR toilet..dunno why.. 2 cubicles style lor.. omg. must transform

View from our service yard 

View of kitchen from service yard

service yard

living room

the corridor.. HUAT AH.

successfully crossed 31st

I'm either low maintenance or easily contented. or maybe both.

took vesak dayOIL on my bday to just hang out in empty malls during off peak timings. Nowadays, being able to walk around without anyone within 1m radius in town is a luxury. I was totally enjoying it. 

The itinerary was packed but fruitful. We had bday lunch at Putien..one of my fave restaurants, followed by my bday treat at Starbucks... free drink and cake on the house for bday members.. love starbucks. We then feasted on the dessert-cup cupcake which ES painstakingly carried precariously all the way to prevent marring the beautiful design on the cream. Cupcake is really all about the delightfully beautiful sinful cream isn't it. The good thing was that the cake tasted as good as it looks! 

My present was a gorgeous scrapbook starter kit. ES did up the FIRST page.... which gave me great confidence that the following pages I'll be doing would easily outshine his. haha. We then went planet traveller to buy a neck pillow and handpicked flowers for my MIL whom I share the same birthday with. 

It was in short, a very aesthetically pleasing birthday. Beautifully designed cake, butterfly design scrapbook, pretty wrapping paper, lovely flowers and a very handsome husband.

Love the wrapping paper!!

where it all began... watching post NDP fireworks at marina bay where we first held hands. ooooo.haha

couldn't take my eyes off these fluttering creatures... 

handpicked bouquet for my MIL. think all taureans enjoy looking at beautiful things and are good at colors and design in general.

the only constant is change

not feeling good. maybe the massive amount of handover is making me sick. but unloading them all will then enable me to take on new things.

describing what needs to be done in detail to another person to the point that i feel like puking.... really shows the amount of stuff that i have accomplished over the two years in the portfolio.... look on the bright side...i should be proud of it and move on with my head held high.

the other culprit could be the moving out of my comfort zone that's accentuating this nauseating feeling.

i feel overwhelmed by the changes... the newbies in office... my new temp cube.... my involuntary part time scheme shuttling between two offices.

i'm holding my breath as i embark on a new and vastly phase at work. 27 jun will be my 5 years in LTA. a good time for a change.

bye bye CDD. buddies....keep in touch k..... sob sob.

5 May 2012 - Superm00n

ES set the stage. He set up my tripod, brought out 2 chairs, mounted my camera with my 18-200mm lens onto the tripod, sat down and played 月亮代表我的心from his iphone.

My most supportive hubby ever. All I needed to do was to make sure the angle was right and press the trigger, The moon was shy but opened up to our enthusiasm soon after.Gorgeous yolk against the dark sky, looked right out from a studio set.