Finally, its really Angel's very own blog!

Finally, I made some changes to my blog. Darling went off to work early today thats why I got tons of hours to do my blog. Though its still not up to my satisfaction but its still better than the previous one, i think.

Darling called me to confirm our trip to Grapevine tomorrow. Not Grapevine mall but, a grapevine where the grapes are grown. We will go there to pick our own grapes and the picked grapes will be made into our very own red wine! Thats so customised! Hahaha!

I just cleaned the house just now. Wipe here, wipe there. Shall use my irobot this coming Sunday as darling will be on guard duty.

disneyland or disneyworld?

Just finish lunch and darling is now taking a bath to prepare to set off to work. He starts work at 1pm today. He came back at ard 2am last night and we slept at 3am. I woke up at 10am today to prepare lunchie.

Last night, I was doing some research. Should I visit Disneyland and/or Disney world? Hmm, some says that both the theme park has their own uniqueness. Some says not to waste time on Disneyland cause Disney world is so much bigger and more fun. How how how? Since I am going Disney World in Dec, maybe I should not go disneyland right??? Hai~

Darling is on guard-duty this coming sunday and going on deployment for 9 days on next tues...sian. Dunno why he always so lucky. All the deployment got his share. But he told me 1 good news that maybe he will not be going to the one in Nov!! The one in Nov will last 3 weeks, OMG!! However it really depends on Waipan. If Waipan comes in Oct, yeah! But if Waipan comes in Nov, then darling has to go. Nov is my birthday and our wedding anniversary, I really do not wanna spend these 2 days alone...:(((

There is a tax-free weekend coming. The schools in USA here are starting soon and they allow a tax-free weekend for parents to stock up on their kids' stuff. The school kids in USA does not have to wear uniform, so nice right? Its exactly like the ones we see in movies! But tax-free day also no use, darling on deployment and nobody to go shopping with me...again another :(((

my determination

I am still determined to step into the gym! Hmm, maybe later around 8pm when the sun is not so strong. Is summer now and the sun will not goes down till 9+!!! Its so ultra hot!

In the meantime, I am looking at Disneyland & Universal Studios webbies. Darling and I will be going to Vegas and LA in October, hooray!!!!! We left out San Francisco cos it needs about 6hrs of drive there. We are thinking of going there, probably next year along the way back to Singapore. I am also planning one in December to Disney World in Florida! I wanna see the Christmas lighings!!! Hai~, I wonder if darling can take leave...

sleeping day

I ate a muscle relaxation pill before I sleep last night. My neck was hurting. But I did not expect it made me so lethargic today! I did not have the strength to cook, talk and even go gym. All I feel like doing was to sleep...

Darling went off to work already. He starts work at 5pm today. Went to Indian Bazzar to buy 1 red onion just now. My dish for tomorrow needs a big onion and I realise I had 0 left. I am going to make Ayam Masak Merah. I never heard of this dish before but according to the recipe, its a malaysian dish. Anyway I am going to try it out as it seems easy.

A day of worry is more exhausting than a day of work. ~John Lubbock

Darling and I slept at around 4am last night. We woke up at 12pm and I started to prepare our lunch. Darling helps me whenever he is in the night shift. So sweet of him. He will ask me to rest or use the laptop while he cooks! As per yesterday's post, I'm doing Thai spicy grilled chicken wings. It turns out great, according to darling! However, I will prefer if its more spicy. I'll add more chilli next time! Hehehe...I took some pictures but it turns out ugly. SO I am not posting any pictures here. You can look up the recipe at this webbie.
http://www.mykitchensnippets.com/2009/05/grilled-spicy-thai-chicken-wings.html

Darling went off to work at 5pm though his work starts at 7pm. He says he gotta attend a meeting at 6. He drove me to the gym and off to work he went. I jogged for 30mins on the treadmill. Usually, I will jog at 3.8mph for the first 25mins and 50mph for the next 5mins. But I have not been jogging for the past 1 week. So I only jogged at 3.8mph for the whole of my 30mins. So useless ya...=(
Anyway tomorrow, tomorrow I am going to hit the gym again! Darling says most people come to USA will gain weight. That is so scary right! I made so much effort to lose weight and now I am gaining all back??? NO WAY!! Haha..after I started jogging, I can sense some changes in my body, more toned maybe? My wedding band is now so much loose! The band can just drop out if I will to shake my hand! Hey Shujia, if you are reading this, I am really regretting not jogging with you last time in NTU...haha!

I ordered Biotherm online cos seems like I can't find any Biotherm counter in the shopping malls here. Only Clinique, Estee Lauder, Elizabeth Arden etc. But then I realise I ordered the wrong stuff. Hai~...means I have to exchange and that means I have to pay for the return shipping fees and that also means its gonna take much more time! So sian! I hope my current Biotherm cleansing gel will last me until the new one comes again. I order Victoria's Secret too and I am now patiently waiting for the shipment to come.

Tomorrow, I am going to make roast pork. After my first attempt in roast pork, I know how easy it is to do roast pork! The trick is the skin! Must score it several times with the knife and put the whole pork (skin facing up) into the fridge uncovered. Only this way, the skin will be dry. And when you put it into the oven, the skin will be crispy! Its just like that! Ha!

Okie, time for my dinner. Need to detox so shall only have some milk + cereal and yogurt. In USA, there are so many varieties of cereal and yogurt! So much more than Singapore. I have stock up cereal and many things whenever they are on sale.

Look at how much I had stock up! Many of them are either free or less than $1, with coupons.


Kroger is going to double coupons up to 1usd this coming Sat. Which means a $1 coupons equals $2 coupons! Wow! If the cereal cost $2, and using this coupons, I will have it free! Yeah! That is my daily homework too. To look up coupons and print them. I have 1 whole book of coupons!



4 more days to our 28months!

a tiring day

Darling came back home at 5.15am yesterday. We went to bed around 6am and woke up at 12.30pm. We were still very tired at that point of time but I have to wake up to cook lunch cum dinner.

Today lunch was simple. As darling has to go exercise for 9 days starting 18th Aug, I need to clear all the food in the freezer. I cooked steamed prawns with garlic, stir fry tofu & minced meat in oyster sauce and fuzzy gourd soup. It was the first time I tried fuzzy gourd soup. It turns out good, simple and sweet.



While I was cooking, I sent darling to run some errands for me. I asked him to go Yue Mei (Vietnam Supermart) to get me ginger, tomato, 1lb chicken wing & vegetable. As I am cooking for Bing Bing this week, the ones I bought during weekends are not enough. Darling came back with the stuff I need and chendol as well! Oh my, I was craving for chendol for a long time! After I lost weight, I am very health conscious. I tried my very best to avoid coconut milk. But without coconut milk, chendol will not taste nice. So its okie to let loose once in a while, don't you agree? After lunch and chendol for dessert, darling & I took a bath and went back to dreamland.



We woke up at 5.30pm and time for darling to go to work. I wanted to go to the gym but I am still aching from the wii-playing. Well, its an excuse isn't it? Haha...I told myself, tomorrow! I will step into the gym tomorrow!

Okie, everytime before darling went off to work, we will stand at the door there for very long. A very long farewell..haha! A long tight hug, a goodbye kiss and I will says say the same thing to him, "drive carefully, have a smooth day @work, drink more water and most importantly, I LOVE YOU!"

Handsome darling in his RSAF uniform


I am going to marinate the chicken wings for tomorrow now. I gonna try a special recipe Thai style spicy chicken wings. I will update tomorrow on how this dish will turn out!

Ciao

finally, home

Darling is on his way back and now is already 5am. So tired and my head spinning.
Nites.

The Pen Story

LOVE of my life, Ang Yew Chye

I had a couple of relationships after I started working. Maybe due to the fact that I had slim down, well...some guys are just so superficial. But of course those relationship did not last long. I had a hard time managing my first relationship, probably it was my first. He was a two-timer and I forgave him time after time but still he did it again. He also mention break-up many times but again and again, I forgave him. I so dumb right??! Finally, I ended the relaionship with only an email.
So proud of myself!! =D

After dating a few guys, I realise what I want in a man. Those guys are not up to the mark. Maybe I had learn to be more "smart" after my first failed relationship. When the guy is not what I want, I will be very clear cut towards him. For me, a NO is a NO. Nothing will change my mind. So stubborn right?! Hahaha

Finally after a long search, I met a wonderful man! Shocking but surprisingly, I met him in a very complicated world, Internet. We first met in Somerset Orchard and soon after we started dating. This darling of mine neither knows how to be romantic nor is rich, but I dunno why I am so attracted to him. Sometimes I can quarrel with him being a woodblock! I am demanding but yet he is still so nice and forgiving to me. I just know that he is THE ONE!

In 2008, we decided to apply for a HDB flat even though we are only together for a few months. We had our ups and downs but we manage to forgive and forget cos we know, deep down in out hearts, our love is growing and growing. On 8 August 2008, Darling brought me to the merlion in front of Fullerton Hotel. He waited till 8.00pm and knee down. OMG, he is proposing to me! Many people saw and I heard "Accept him!" Hahaha, well...darling knows I will definitely say yes! He had everything planned, so naughty!

Then news of Darling going to USA for detachment is here. He will be going there for 1.5 years cos due to the fact that he is going to ORD in 2010. So we decided to ROM on 30 September 2008. Everything is so fast as we did not have much time to plan. I am in charged of sourcing for the bridal studio for our wedding album and also the restaurant. In the end, I chose My Bridal Room at 9 Tan Quee Lan Street, #01-03Tanqueelan Suites, Singapore 188098. The person in charged was nice. Darling & I only want a simple wedding album. Unlike other wedding couples, we also opt out the wedding car, photographer and the costumes for parents and in-laws. Finally, we were offered a nice wedding package with only a big wedding album, a mini wedding album, 3 wedding photos table-stand frame, a wall wedding photo frame, costume and suit for darling and me on our wedding traditional day. I also chose a nice and sweet oriental restaurant for out wedding lunch, Si Chuan Dou Hua @ UOB Plaza. It was on the 60th floor and has a magnificiant view! Too bad, ours was lunch or else, I will be able to view the night lightings in Shenton way.



On 8 November 2008, the wedding lunch turn out well. Everyone turns up and perhaps it was a lunch, nobody was late! This is also one of the reason why we decided to have it as lunch. After everything, Darling and I check in to Fullerton Hotel. Darling had booked a night there as it was only beside UOB Plaza. I wanna say thank you to everyone who came and helped out, especially Waipan (Photographer), Yanfen & Yujun for following us around to take photos after the lunch.

P.S. I LOVE YOU FOREVER, Darling

First turning point in my life

My mum send me to a convent school for 10 years (6 years in CHIJ Ponggol & 4 years in St. Anthony Cannosian Convent). After which I went to SRJC and that was my first time I had male classmates. Haha, but perhaps is my size (70+kg!!!) and image at that point of time, nobody was attracted to me at all! So sad right?!

After I went to NTU, somehow I decided to slim down. I went on a crash diet. 1 slice of bread with 1 orange, 1 kiwi, 1 banana & 1 kids size vitasoy for 1 whole day. This lasted for quite sometime. As I was staying in a hostel, I did not have any problem with my parents objecting me to the way I diet. I was happy when somebody commented that I had lost weight. In fact, that is a motivation. I even wanna lost more weight! In the end, I lost about 15kg over 3 or 4 months. I was happy but not satisfied but somehow, my weight became stagnent. I realise that this was a problem when I started to vomit everytime I see someone eating, especially being in a canteen. I was scared and I decided to eat normally but healthily. Soon enough, I gained back a few kilos but look healthier.

People always say "when you gain somethin, you lose another." This is true. I lost weight but I lost my motivation in studies. I did badly in my examination 2nd year and decided to opt out of university. I cried but I had no choice. Since young, I am very result-orientated. I will not waste time in doing something which will bring me nothing. I don't like to fail. It was my dream to wear the square hat but it was dashed..

After that I went out to work. Being only a A'level graduate, it was kinda difficult to find jobs. Finally I found a job in Sengkang SBS Depot as a junior secretary. After working about 3 years there, I went to Sumitomo for 1 year and Samsung for another year and here I am now, USA, TX.

My First Blog

Hello everyone! I had been wanting to create a blog for myself since many years ago, especially before coming to USA. But I am just too lazy and also being a dummy to computer software, I just kept postponing until today (August 10 2009). Hahaha!!

Some people feels that having a blog is kinda "bo liao". Cos you are like announcing all your stuff to everyone. I used to feel that too, oops :-P But being after meeting my current husband (Ang Yew Chye) and coming to USA, I just feel that I want to blog down all my ups and downs for my future reading or even my next generation!

Okie, thats all for my first blog! I hope to continue blogging everything about my life! =D