Birthday

My 26th birthday just passed and I'm another year wiser ;) The significant different this year is I'm celebrating it as a free man..what I meant was I'm not tied up with any 8-5 routine job. Other than that, there's not much different. Everyone who called up to wish me, will go back to the same question.."How are you going to celebrate?" I don't really know how to answer them. Just a normal day for me. Though I wanted it to be more special.

Hubs finally dump me last friday at Mum's place, so that he can go shopping for my present. I know he don't have any particular thing he's going to look for. He told me he walked thru the whole shopping complex but don't know what to look for. Ended up he got me a handphone/mp3 holder..the arm band kind of holder. He saw me holding my mp3 while jogging, so he thought that holder might be a motivation to jog more. I didn't expect any present from him, so that was a small surprise for me.

For dinner, we went to Tsuruya, the Jap food which we found quite nice the last time we were there. But this time when we dined there, I don't know what went wrong. My tummy was having so sharp pain, it kills my appetite. I'll load the pictures later.

Wanted to go to QB to catch a movie after that but I was just not in the mood. Ended up we went home and off the lights (Earth Hour). Hubs went out after dropping me off to get me a slice of cake. What is a birthday without a cake right? And we had the ice cream cake in the dark.

My birthfay wish? Well, I'm quite greedy I made a few. Firstly, to have my own family and my own home. Secondly, to get that million dollar account...hehe

HAPPY HAPPY ME...

Happy Birthday, Lindy!!!!

Another year added to your age. Each passing year, you have grown wiser and happier. You'll continue to enjoy your life and achieve all that you've been dreaming of.

Happy happy month

There's quite a number of cheques coming into my mail and some were already in the bank in fact. It's like...money come, money come...haha

First, there was this cheque by PruLady on the marriage. Followed by my so overdue tax refund. Just a few days ago, I called up ING to request for my another overdue cheque, a dental claim I submitted 6 months ago. And today? Well, let just say the fatest cheque is on the way from US SmithBarney. Haha...I don't trade stocks. It was a left over from my previous employee stock purchase plan. Aisey man...been waiting for the price to hit my profit for so long. There was once it went from USD17 to USD13. My heart almost stopped. I was thinking...die la, this time have to wait for a year or two liao. But then it must have release quite a good product to push the market up to USD 17+ again last week. This morning I checked, it has hit my profit and go a lil more by a few cents.

Wow..what a great birthday month for me.

Today

I'm not going to lie at the fact that I'm actually trying to cramp all those 'blogs' in my head into this real blog in one day. I'm trying to make up for my promise to keep this blog alive..haha..

Since I'm not working and I don't have mood to update here, what have I been doing? Well, to start off, in less than a week after I resigned from my previous kindy job, I got myself another job. If you could call it a job still, when you are not paid monthly salary. I look up at dictionary.com it says a job is:

"a post of employment; full-time or part-time position"

Since it does not state anything about salary, I guess I AM in a job. This job requires me to work only 1 day a month (*party party*) and the pay depends on the end result which might take a year or two to harvest. It might also be nothing at the end but I'm fully confident in it. The best thing is the end result might give me more than what a normal 8-5 job pays in those two years...and it's non taxable..COOL eh? I'm not going to reveal what job this is, I don't want the goverment to come hunting me down in a year or two ;) What I can say is this recession thingy, it's not going to affect me..

Surprise

After that false alarm, I told myself I have to take it easy. If I were to continue to be like this, it will definitely hurt our relationship. So I planned half a day outing. It started with a jog in the park, then try out the yummy pure fruit juice from a stall nearby. I arranged in a way that we will have brunch in my favourite PHOP (Paddington House of Pancake) before we catch a movie "Dragonball Evolution".

I overheard Hubs raving to his colleagues how he had the whole series of dragonball comic books when he was small. To watch that movie, it's like going to back to his childhood. I wanted to surprise him but I guess he reads my mind pretty easily....or I'm just so predictable. I know if I did not arrange for his hair cut, he'll just let it grow till I complain. So that was in my plan also.

Afternoon was free and easy (in my parents' place..hehe) while at night we had dinner @ New World Park so that we could easily hop over to the stage where his best buddy was performing. As usual, they will ajak him to play Dota. I wanted to go there and have a look at what so interesting bout it. But his reluctant-ness showed when he kept on asking if I'll be ok. Well, I have to avoid my parents from knowing I'll be driving home alone cause they'll be worried. Thus I dropped him off at the cafe on my way home. Too bad, they bumped into me at one of the traffic light. I loathed him playing the game, not because it is unhealthy but the way they play it, it always drag until wee hour (the earliest 2am). And I cannot question him, for if I do..he'll say I'm always making noise when he goes out with his friends. I went home alone and cried myself to sleep. I guess the whole surprise is not so well planned afterall..

Dinner last night

I'm not a big fan of fish maw (actually...totally not a fan) or any slimy thing in my soup. But last night was exceptional. Not that I am a fan now but it was the night where I consumed the most fish maw than all the years (of eating fish maw) add up in my life. The conversation with MIL went like this:

MIL: Do you know how to eat fish maw?
Me: Oh..(gulp) I swallow them wholly
MIL: Fish maw is good for health
Me: I know... that's why I swallow it. Else I would not have touch it.
MIL: *faint*

When I related that to Hubs, he added on, "Mum, she knows it's good, thus swallowing as chewing them will break those vitamin."

And my FIL? He was laughing in the background..