Got loads of pics to update but that has to wait.. In a few hours time, Kate and I will be joining her godma and friends for a picnic at botanic gardens! Made ham sandwiches but they look horrid. I'm really bad at the whole preparing food thing!


Anyway hubs recently got a really great job opportunity, and I really hope he gets the job. He has always wanted to go to the back end of fashion and this fits the bill. He won't have to stand all day long should he get the job. And the benefits are alot better too, more annual leave days, medicL expenses for Kate and myself covered. He's been to two interviews and now we are waiting for the results of the second one. If he passes that, then there will be two more to go. Can't wait!

The one with all the niceys

I have been going for a jewelry making class for the past month and frankly, I look forward to every new class. I love learning the different techniques and getting tips on which materials to get and where from. Even though I do not like every design, I realise that each lesson has been planned merticulously so we can master the techniques properly. And I'm so glad Jo's coming with me and she's equally hyped up!


You know, our community centres have a lot of courses tailored to meet every individual's interest. And at such affordation affordable prices too! You know, I really wanna join a scrapbooking class too. PA has them too and so I will be joining the one in October. Its only for a day but perhaps they might have other advance course after that ends. But you know what's my dream course? The one held by Laines Papeterie at Wheelock Place. http://www.laines.com.sg


SDU Scrapbook Design & You – Basic (SDU-Basic)


NEW FORMAT!


University Style Training Courses
Scrapbook Design &You takes on a whole new format while still delivering to you the same quality teaching in the basics of scrapbooking. Enjoy more value in class, more opportunity to work on refining your layouts and plenty of focused hands-on practice and guidance from our experienced teachers to learn the key concepts and tools of scrapbooking. Topics covered: Module 1 - Scrapbook basics, Module 2 - Building Blocks of Design, Module 3 - The Power of the Pen, Module 4 - The Final Touch. Best of all, SDU (Basic) is now available in 2 pricing options to best meet your scrapbooking needs:

Fee
SDU (Basic) - $230 for 4 sessions x 3hrs - includes SDU tote Bag, all required notes, materials for hands-on practice and supplies for completing 4 scrapbook layouts.
SUD (Basic) PLUS - $280 for 4 sessions x 3hrs - includes all items in SDU (Basic) PLUS a generous Scrapbooking Starter Pack which includes an EK Success Paper Trimmer, Scrapbooking book, Acid-free tape glue (supplies worth more than $90).


You can either join the weekday class, for 4 weeks from 2.30pm to 5pm. Or, take the weekend class for 2 weeks, each saturday full day class. But, the price! Perhaps in future ba...Sigh.


Anyway I am quite happy with my jewelry classes. Having loads of fun. Spanish classes are taking a break, til me and Fanni are financially ready to go back. Haha. That was fun too, but a different kind of fun.


And guess what? This month on fareastflora.com , they are featuring my favorite flowers!! I know this is so random but they sent me an email and I got so excited seeing my favorite flowers in so many different designs and colours! Because of my wedding bouqet, I always thought hydrangeas were blue in colour!













*Swoons over pictures.* Goodness, but they are really expensive! I seldom see hydrangeas being sold...so this is a visual treat indeed!


And since we are on the topic of things I like... I really love the Eiffel tower! Or rather, pictures of it. Especially vintage looking pictures of it! I love those altered art pieces where people add touches of pink to the whole picture and then it becomes so dreamy and pretty! I love looking at what people can do with those digital sheets. Ok...I'm not making sense... On Etsy.com, where people worldwide sell all things hand-maded and also supplies, there are also photographers and um, digital artists (no idea what else to call them) who sell the photographs that they take. Either as framed pictures, or as collage sheets. A collage sheet is a collection of digital images that someone has assembled on a sheet of paper. You normally purchase a digital collage sheet online and the creator of the sheet emails it to you. Most digital collage sheet artists place a copyright stamp on the online image so that people can't download it free.(Taken from  http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2601927/what_are_digital_collage_sheets.html?cat=24)

So if you buy the collage sheets, you can print them as many times as you like. Buyers will use them to make tags, um...scrapbooking, or even to make lockets, bags, towels anything actually! So I really love seeing the things that people make, like I said, anything with the Eiffel tower just makes me feel really dreamy and its just so pretty! I love the following vintage looking photograph and I'm so gonna buy one for my house when it comes. Preferably one with the Eiffel tower.





And these tags are just so, so pretty in pink, aren't they?

Hearts a new song!

Over the last week, I have been listening to Des playing this song on his laptop. Finally unable to resist, I asked him for the title. Its's Airplanes/Brick by boring brick cover done by these two very talented guys, Michael Henry and Justin Robinett. It's a mash-up of two songs, "Äirplanes" by B.O.B and "Brick by boring brick" by Paramore and I think their cover version is so amazing! You gotta listen to the originals first then to their cover version and you will get my meaning. I love alternative rock and both covers are great to me but I absolutely adore mash-ups so yea!


Its been on repeat mode for the past hour...


I searched the lyrics and also read some reviews about it. Yea, when I like something, anything! I kinda like finding out more about it. When it comes to songs, I like knowing what it means, and why it was composed in the first place - it just adds to the plus factor for me and adds a whole lot more meaning to it. This is one of the review I read and I feel the same way!


The song received a positive review from Vicki Lutas of the BBC, who awarded the song 5 out of 5 stars. She said that the song is "hair-raisingly BRILLIANT" and said "Listening to the lyrics is like entering a world where sandcastle's aren't built, but buried, a world where the baddie is not the wolf, but reality... and in this world, things are dark, but they're very real. There's a sense of longing; longing for those fairy tales and longing for innocence, but it's coupled with a sense of realization that this will never happen."


The last sentance where I highlighted in bold; I can totally relate to.... Seriously. I daydream a lot, alot. Maybe unheathily so. Especially when I'm down or when things get too mundane. More about that some other time though.

The one with bells ringing!

Loves!


Joanne's big day is finally here! I'm so excited, really! In a few hours I would be heading over to her mom's place and I probably should go to bed now and catch, um 4 hours of sleep, but I'm still awake! Was tired, real tired earlier, then had to pack stuff for tomorrow and now I can't sleep... So gonna regret this later, I know!


Anyway, Jo asked to do a simple morning highlights to play at her dinner and its gonna be my first time doing one. Wish me all the best, I can already foresee that its gonna be so hectic and crazy, but anything for the bestie on her big day!

In a heartbeat

I was taking a smoke just now, when suddenly I thought of my life thus far. I was wondering what would life be without Kate? I mean, since I always had grouses giving up all my freedom and even part of my personality for her, how would I feel if I could make the choice to go back in time?


It was then that I truly realised what I wanted. Despite the frustrations and the mundane-ness I feel sometimes, I wouldn't change a thing. I really cannot imagine life without her; a morning without her little face peering at me & her wide grin when she sees me open my eyes, her cute little laughs and her sweet little voice, her loud cries and irritating whines, I cannot imagine a day without a kiss or hug from her. It would kill me to lose her. Even the thought of sending her to school and going back to work scares me. I would miss her so, so much!


And then I realised that what I read on someone's facebook shout-out before was true; only a life lived for others is worth living. (Or something along those lines) So what if I had lost part of who I am, so what if I had to give up my freedom and sometimes my sanity, *hur hur*, so what if I had to make certain sacrifices because I decided to have a kid? Because if you ask me would I make the same choice all over again, (even though sometimes I think myself mad for doing so), I would... in a heartbeat.

Its hard to understand the dynamics of a relationship. What happens during the span of it that leads two people to a point where they no longer can be nice to each other. Sure, deep down, they love each other. You would think that having been so close and loving before, that having gone through so much together, would strengthen their bond. Perhaps the bond should even be unbreakable. Alas! That is not so. How do you think there are so many broken marriages around? Most people do start off loving each other to bits after all. But after one episode too many, one unbroken silence too many, one unresolved quarrel too many, how can it all just be expected to fade away with time? Not resolving anything and leaving it to time to heal sometimes just gives one result; an unresolved issue. Too many of those later, just tires one out. And when you are tired, there is nothing else you want. Nothing seems worth your efforts anymore. It takes too much to try, and its easier to walk away. Even having a conversation about what could be or has been serves no other purpose than to frustrate. Their relationship can best be described as civil. Which to her means the relationship is doomed.


The gap seems irreparable. A lot of things changed and it doesn't just go back to the way it was just because they want it to. She's so sick of so many things; life as it is, her as she is, things as they are. She's so sick and tired and suddenly her problems just seems bigger than everybody else's. Suddenly this whole world has expanded and she's so small and alone in all this mess.



She contradicts herself all the time. She contradicts everything. Sometimes things seem so right, seems so good. Sometimes things seem so bad, so wrong. Why is it that life is so hard sometimes? Why is it that you may have everything but feel so empty inside?

Beautiful weather...

Beautiful weather today. Cool breeze, gray skies. Just the way I like it. Without the rain. It's been raining alot recently. Horrid wet weather. It poured this morning so now its really lovely outside.


Suddenly I think of those scenes in movies, where the actor stands next to a floor to ceiling glass window, and stares outside, where it's drizzling. Its night time & the city lights outside are twinkling in the rain. Soft christmas music playing in the background. I always feel really nice when I see that scene. I don't know how to describe that feeling but I always like to imagine myself doing that, in a nice home of my own.


Another favorite. Beautiful gray morning, white buildings with blue roofs overlooking the Mediterranean. I wanna visit the Greek islands...