In the Mood for Christmas

Today me and Hubby went to Singapore Expo with FS and Jehanne.
There's a Home and Design Fair going on and also Addidas Sales. Well, didnt managed to squeeze into Addidas Sale plus both me and Hubby quite broke for this month because of a Nikon FM2. Opppppsss!

Anyway, was quite impressed with the Home and Design Fair cause they could acutally build showflats in the Expo Hall! Marvellous!!!!! There were 2 Interior company setting their Showflats in the Hall and we went in to captured some ideas from them. Amazing! Their Interior concepts were superly nice but one of them's tooooooo un-realistic lah. Probably need to be some big "Tao Keh" to own that kind of renovation.

Oh ya! Me and Hubby had just settled our Living room Furnitures with this company "The Furniture Club". Love their furnitures! Nice, Chic and affordable. Alright, it's slightly steep in price as compared to Star Furniture and IKEA but it's definitely worth the "Blink Blink", BECAUSE its custom-made furniture! Hohoho! They had a few outlets and the one nearest to NEL will be at Liang Court.

We went down to City hall too! The Christmas ambience is really there! I am soooooooo in the Mood for Christmas! Hohoho~ Counting down now! Heee~

有空再愛你

Received an email from Sister Emily and found that its really touching and 感觸良多~
Hope to share it with all of you and I hope that all my 姐妹 will find their 幸福 :)

有空再愛妳
　
他向來說自己忙，哪有空陪她？

其實他有的是時間，只是不肯花在她身上罷了。 大學時代，他總是忙著唸書和社團，好不容易等到寒暑假，他又忙著打工賺錢。那時他家中經濟拮据，唸書和打工是為了獎學金和賺學費。 這些都是事實，也是當理由，她覺得自己應該做個體貼的女友，所以也不強求他花時間在她身上，甚至盡力為他分憂解勞。

畢業後，他和幾個朋友合夥開了一間小公司，她則在出版社找了一份畫插圖的工作。 創業維艱，白手起家非常辛苦，所以她不但替他處理家務，還每天送便當和宵夜到公司給他，每次都只是聊兩句就走了，深怕耽誤他的時間。 他的同事們都誇她體貼又得體，將來必定是蚑憍d良母；她也有點沾沾自喜，認為自己的付出受到了肯定。

公司的營運終於步上常軌，照理說，他應該有空陪她了，可是他卻說 :

『我希望在三十歲以前，有自己的車子和房子，還有足夠的存款，這樣才能安心、沒負擔地結婚。 』

於是他變得更忙、更拼了，就連她送便當到公司去，也常常見不到他。 相較之下，她覺得自己像是遊手好閒。 交往五、六年了，她漸漸發覺自己總是在孤單寂寞中渡過， 每年的生日、情人節、聖誕節，都是自己一個人和電視機一起渡過。 同事們總笑說她的男友只是個「傳說」，甚至還有朋友懷疑她是否真的有男朋友。

這些日子以來，她的體貼和識大體，除了換來男性朋友們的稱讚，和 姊妹淘們的同情之外，什麼也沒有。 於是，她開始對他做出小小的「反應」，但總被他的好言相勸給抑制下來。

『今天的辛苦，是為了明天的幸福啊！』 『兩個人整天黏在一起，反而更快、更容易分手呢！』

情人節，在她萬般請求之下，他 才終於答應晚上陪她到陽明山看夜景。 她殷殷期盼了一個多星期，卻因為一通朋友要他去應酬的電話，粉碎了這個夢。 再也按捺不住這幾年來的孤單寂寞，她邊哭邊抱怨著、訴說著自己的委屈。

『妳以為我喜歡忙嗎？我這麼辛苦，還不都是為了我們的未來！』

此話一出，她變得啞口無言。 他不肯放手，而她也還沒準備好離開，可是現狀卻毫無改善。 但是不甘願的種子已經在她心裡種下，生根發芽，等待開花結果的一天。

他有工作、有朋友、有應酬，所以他沒有空。 這些她也有，只是她長期選擇待在家裡、守著電話、等待他的來電、讓自己隨傳隨到，而推開了工作和朋友。
現在，她不想再獨守空閨、癡癡地等他臨幸，不再劃地自限，決心找出自己的一片天。

她不再為他送便當和宵夜，寧可窩在辦公室裡邊啃麵包邊畫插圖，或是想想新點子；她也不再每天按時打電話問候他 了，寧可和姊妹淘們喝咖啡、聊是非，或是花時間打扮自己，更添自信。
他漸漸發覺自己忙碌的生活裡，似乎少了些什麼，但! 總想不出到底少了什麼。
半個月過去，他才驚覺是少了她。心血來潮撥了通電話，卻被潑了桶冷水。

『我現在沒空，明天要交稿，我現在要趕稿。』說完，她立刻掛上電話。

他想，她總算有些事情可以忙，就不會常常埋怨他沒時間陪她了...各自忙碌的生活又過了兩、三個月。 這天，他談成一筆大生意，心情 正好，想找她慶祝時，卻再度吃了閉門羹。

『我現在沒空，等一下要開會。最近應該也都沒空。』

開會？他從來都不知道她那份悠閒的畫圖工作需要開什麼會。 原來她的插圖受到讀者歡迎，出版社打算為她出版一系列的圖畫筆記書。 又過了一個多月，他終於買了夢想中的新車。 想起和她久未見面，決定開車帶她出去兜兜風。

『我現在沒空，要趕著去新書發表會。』
『我載妳去！』
『不用了，總編輯會送我去，我現在沒空。』

他再也無法忍受了。他們已經兩個多月沒有見面了，每次打電話給她，她總說沒有空，就匆匆掛上電話。 以前的她不是這樣的，這到底是怎麼回事？

「妳到底還當不當我是妳的男朋友？妳到底愛不愛我？』
「我現在沒空，等我有空再愛你吧！』

按下結束通話鍵，她將手機丟進包裡，交給身旁的出版社總編輯，準備走進新書發表會的會場。

『男朋友嗎？』
『不再是了。』
『那麼....簽名會結束後，妳有空嗎？』

『只要你有空，我隨時都有空。』 她笑著說。

麥斯威爾咖啡的廣告曾說：『再忙也要和你喝杯咖啡。』

現在我們的生活是處於忙碌狀態，但是你是否忘了你的另一半呢？ 或許事情有輕重緩急，但是我們 將心比心來看，你是否也希望遭此對待呢？ 不要將自己的另一半，總是排在最後，等到你想到之時，可能往事只能回味了?

好好珍惜你所能把握的，愛惜你所能擁有的。

Although it may be cruel to the guy, but I believe in a relationship, there is always this give and take factor. No matter how busy you are, I believe you ought to give out some time to your precious one. Likewise, I believe your precious one will do the same :)

Dearest Hubby Kuo, I Love You!

Wedding Cakes 喜餅

Was discussing with Jayne about wedding cakes 喜餅 just now
It happened that she is also looking for those special kinds of wedding cakes which are are different from the normal kinds of cakes that we received when relatives get married.

True enough, I've got the same thinking as her.
I want my wedding cakes to be unique and I want all my relatives, friends who receives my wedding cakes to remember it always ! 結婚是人生大事, there is the need to get everything perferct!

Last week, my parents had dinner with Hubby Kuo's Auntie in regards to our wedding.
It's like "Meet the parents" session which normally proceed when a pair of couple are intending to get married. Well, different is that, Kuo mummy couldnt make it to Singapore due to her busy schedule and it happened that Kuo auntie is in Singapore and hence, the appointment was fixed.

Kuo auntie discussed with my parents about the wedding procedures as they are not very farmilar with it. My parents aint very sure either but could brieftly tell her about the important things to take note of during the wedding ceremony. The dinner was good with everyone getting to know each other, 畢竟即將就要成為一家人了. One of the things highlighted during the dinner was about the 喜餅 aka Wedding cakes. Kuo auntie feels that it would be more easier if we could prepare the wedding cakes in Singapore rather then having the 喜餅 to be send from Taiwan to Singapore.

Mummy and Daddy's opinion is somehow the same as my parents feel that it might be too troublesome for Hubby Kuo's family. It's not like 1 or 2 boxes, it's 20-30 boxes! Well, so I had been considering about the kind of wedding cakes that I want to get. Hubby Kuo got no opinion and of course, Mrs Kuo yesh me, got the priority to make the decision! Yohooo!

I've already got 1 in mind! Tadah!

Looks so gorgeous and wonderful isnt it!
I just cant wait to get these cupcakes as my wedding cakes!
Heh!

真的很忙

Was so busy with work recently that somehow or rather, it seems to make me kind of stressed.
Sigh~ that's part and parcels of an educationist's life. How I wish I could turn all my work into ashes! Sighhhhhh

真的很忙，忙得快發瘋了!
Sometimes I wondered why I chose being an Educationist over an IT personnel.
Sometimes I think its passion, sometimes I doubt about that.
I don't know if its good or bad. I've been thinking so much about my current career.
Can I really do my part as an Educationist? Can I handle my career well?

There's this urge of having an Career switch. However, when I think of my kids in school, I just cant seems to do it. I feel happy working with my colleagues but I don't like the way my work environment operates. I love teaching my kids new stuffs but I hate it when they don't acomplish my homework that I assigned for them. I love enjoying school holidays but I detest it when I need to report work even when school holidays has already started. I cant balance myself actually.

Should I change, Should I remain?
I know its up to myself to decide. I love teaching, there's this strong passion in me towards teaching, but I hate the way my work environments operates. Dilemma Dilemma Dilemma~
Plus, 2 nice colleagues left. One left cause of working location, the other left cause of school management.

真的很煩啦!
Right now, I just want to enjoy the preparation of my wedding.
So, STRESS off you go!

Wedding Banquet @ The Paramount

After so many months of discussion, Mr and Mrs Kuo had finally settled their Wedding Banquet venue at TungLok's The Paramount 百樂吉祥酒家. Wedding date had also been fixed on 1st July 2007. Initally we wanted to it to be on 7th July 2007, but due to it being a very popular date, majority of the hotels/restuarants were already booked. Hence, we decided to have our Banquet held at The Paramount.

Went over to view the venue today and was very satisfied with the surroundings. The General Manager, Sebestian is very polite and gave us alot of advises. I believe all my guests will be happy to dine there :)

At the moment, I am consolidating the guest lists! Heh!
Will need to get ready for ROM soon :D
Hee~ Can't wait for my big day to come!!!