Prata: 2 Bawang kosong for me, 2 Kosong and 1 Telur for DD. Tehpeng and Kopipeng. (And 1 extra fishball mee for Little Being cos I couldn't resist). All a perfect breakfast make, esp when you've been away and deprived of good ol' local food for 2.5 weeks. And your body clock wakes you up, hungry, at 5am...We're back. Touched down on Wednesday morning at nearly 2am after a truly torturous and turbulent flight out of San Francisco and extra delays in HK which almost made me forget the great ... read more
Tis Me!
Hello world, tis me! After receiving many queries asking how I am through e-mail, IM,sms and even through my parents, I'm here, a little shamefaced, to let you know that I've been great, but obviously too lazy to blog. Since easing into the 2nd trimester (currently 17 weeks!) life's been a LOT better - the days pass by more quickly and I've gotten my energy back. So much so that we're actually going to be off on a trip this weekend for 2 WHOLE WEEKS. In fact, make that 18 days! I don't know how ... read more
Keeping a Record
Considering how slack I've been in updating this blog, I am in danger of not having much of a record of the little being's progress through this pregnancy. So I figured I needed a bit of an incentive.Cue Amazon.A bit of searching and I found some nice keepsake books to follow me through the journey. And me being me, I couldn't decide on just one book. So I ended up with two:Now to wait for them to arrive! Which would be soon I hope, at least before I hit the forgetful phase and the memories pass ... read more
Snaaaacks
I've definitely putting on weight. But somehow I think it's less the little being within me per se, but really more to do with the SNACKS. Behold the following:This was what I grabbed in a fit of desperation in the supermarket when I realised that I needed food in the office to sustain me through the day. For the past couple of weeks I've been finding that I've been getting hungry really often even though I don't have much of an appetite. And while I usually rely on my main meals and nothing in ... read more
A New Beginning
I've been beyond tardy with the updates. Not that you folks who still follow my blog would be surprised since it seems to have become somewhat of a trend these days. Oops. I'm kinda sorry about that cos actually, recently, I've had a lot to say, but not a lot of time to say it in. Part of the reason for that has been work that has been occupying more of my time, as always. Then there's all the online TV I've been watching (Project Runway Season 4!) But mostly it's cos I've been dropping off to ... read more
Mine, finally
This is old news, but since I've griped a fair bit about this here, it's worth a note -- my bag is finally mine.Early this month I got the call I was waiting for, and all I had to hear was "waiting list" and "we'll only hold it for 3 days" and I was trotting down to the store to pick up my prize. Well, after I put through the call to the hubs and got his buy-in. It was all too drawn out an affair, but at least there's a happy ending! Now for that trip to the Prada factory in Italy to which ... read more
A Lifetime to Count
I think that sometimes, due to the high value of the transactions we deal with, I get rather numb to how much money we're really talking about when the sums are bandied about. $30 million for a piece of equipment. $250 million for an investment (and not a very large one at that). Billions worth of assets. They've become really just numbers on a page.One of the projects I'm currently on has an estimated budget of around $1 billion (Yes, this is public info). While we were talking about precisely ... read more
Not-So-Ubiquitous After All
On a day when I really felt like having chicken marcaroni for dinner, I found myself possibly the only food court with no chicken rice stall.I'd trooped over to Marina Square to collect my supply of contact lenses from my optician, and while heading out, I decided on a whim that it would be chicken marcaroni for dinner. I was ina comfort food kind of mood. So I figured I'd just head to the food court and grab a bowl from the food court. It certainly didn't occur to be that there may not be a ... read more
My Valentine’s Chef
I think if not for the proliferation of folks traipsing about in Orchard on Thursday, we would have completely forgotten that Thursday was Valentine's Day. I think with the excitement of CNY and our recent trip, Valentine's Day has just come upon us all too soon. We don't usually do much during Valentine's, us being old fogeys and all. But we do like to take some time out to celebrate, whatever the occasion :) And this Valentine's, DD gamely offered to cook our dinner. I happily accepted, as ... read more
Photo Fiasco
So I was going to update my earlier post to say that my little F1 adventure came to a good ending - the folks at the booking hotline got back to me and I finally managed to finish my transaction. The seats weren't in the block I really wanted (which had unfortunately sold out) but the ones I got were pretty good so I thought that was the happy end to this matter.Then there was that little fiasco of me appearing on the front page of the papers today, dressed in my company windbreaker, no less.I ... read more