His First Car.

I said FIRST and not NEW because for sure in the future when he can afford it, he will get Audi for himself or Honda for me. Haha. 

It took quite some time for him to finally get his car because of all the additional things that he wants to have. Actually, the decision to get the car itself took quite long. After all, this is his most expensive buy to date. So, must take a longer time to think. Next time buy house doesn't know what to take how many years d. Hah kidding kidding.

The old car never goes, new car susah mau come. Haha. It was quite a sad farewell to this car. Not for me because he hardly uses this car when we go out, don't know why. For him and his family, it was such a tiny bit sad thing to do. I think for Jaryn it's a lot sadder. She drives this car everywhere when she was in Penang.

Oh well, time to get a bigger car since the family is expanding :)

The man told us he will reach in 10 minutes. We waited for 20-30 minutes. Pfft. When he finally came with the white baby, all pfft gone. Both straight was so happy till smiling from ear to ear. Don't know why I so happy also ah. As if it's my car like that. Hahaha.

Although he did tell me that one of the reasons he got it in auto mode instead of manual is so that I can drive too. So sweet hor? But he meant it as in I drive and he relaxes in the car. My turn to be the driver. Hahaha. I'm pretty sure for the first 6 months, he sure doesn't dare let me drive his new baby. Scared later I'm the first person to scratch it. Heh.

Oh ya! One more reason why he took so long to get the car after all the paperwork is choosing the number plate. He was given three numbers and he has to arrange them according to preference in case somebody else got the number already. After doing that which took don't know how many days, the man told us all the numbers that he wanted no more. Take so long sumore lah. Hahaha. Then, he was given another set of numbers and finally chose one that I thought was pretty nice. My favorite number three times leh. 

They went through everything that he needs to know of the car and I was just staring at the white beauty. He even sent the car to have some areas custom painted with white because although it's white, not all areas are white. He wanted ALL white, so I think he paid extra to get that done. 

The first car, oh so precious.

After all the talking, we drove this car to dinner. Unknowingly, a bug followed me into the car after dinner.

Me: *hits the bug in darkness on my hand* Yerrrr. WHAT IS THATTT!! 

Him: *looked at me with an eyebrow raised*

Me: Babe! SOMETHING IS ON ME! AND IT'S NOT MOSQUITO!

Him: Wei! Why you bring insects into my car!!?

Me: Ohhhhhh! New car d so action hor. Sayang this car more hor. 

Him: *keeps quiet and steal some glances at me*

Me: Before the car, you would say something like this, "Babe, are you okay?" Now straight say I purposely bring it in. *claps hands*

Him: *smiles* Nolahhhh. Just testing you ni. 

Me: Hahahaha. Don't test me ah later I show some 'love' to your car only you know *grins*

This is only day one. 

Cook What?

*last night at Tesco*

Koay: *thinking at a corner by himself* Okay! Saturday I'll cook breakfast. Western style.

Me: Har! Why suddenly?

Koay: Sajalah.. Okay, now what we need. Eggs.. Bacon.. Orange juice *grabs a bottle of Twister*

Me: *follows along* *whispers* Salmon..

Koay: *ignores me* Western breakfast got what some more? How to cook the egg? Okay, I'll just do omelette..

Me: What are you going to put in the omelette?

Koay: *looks at me for very long* Actually, a lot of things to put inside hor..

Me: Mmhmm..

Koay: Aiyaa.. So many things eh. No need to cook d lah. *looks at me for approval*

Me: YESS! I very lazy to cook and wash and stuff. Can we just go out eat? 

Both: HAHAHA.

We actually wanted to cook a nice romantic dinner tonight but gave up because lazy to prepare the stuff and cook. Then, he tried to do breakfast but we quickly agree that it's not going to happen. 

Good to know we have mutual understanding in this area. Hah.

Work Mode: Off.

My working mode is already off. 

Today, I literally had to drag myself out of the house to go PSDC.

It's difficult to see my family all dressed up and packed with their mini luggage and heading for work-less weekends. If only this roadshow is postponed. If only. My sister kept sending me photos of the fat baby and it's so torturing! :(

What makes it worse is Alvin also going on a holiday tomorrow until Monday. WHAT IS THIS! Everyone going on holiday earlier than me. 

Our trip to Thailand is not really a holiday. I would love to think that it is but it's really not. It's going to be everyday-under-the-sun-painting-walls and get surrounded by 200+ kids. I can only imagine the energy level that I have to keep whenever I have spare time. 

One good news is that for sure it's stress-free. It's going to be tiring but it's going to be the most rewarding one. I remembered 5 of us were already talking and planning for this last year, just weeks after we came back.

The next one week is gonna be filled with smiles, sweat and hopefully no blood. HOPEFULLY!

Oh, weekend, you come faster a bit, thank you.

Vanessa Turns Nineteen.

The lil sister turns 19 this year.

Her last year of being a teen. Not that it's a reason to call for a big celebration.

Since we are not going to get her fancy prezzie this year, we thought why not plan for her a nice friends gathering kind of surprise birthday lunch.

This year, I think there were quite a handful of surprises that she got that she did not expected it at all. At least not all lah. 

On 2nd May, mom baked a really nice and moist chocolate cake since Vanessa is in love with them and we waited till everyone got home and had a quick simple one. It was inexpensive but very meaningful because everyone was there. 

Kelly took this photo that's why a bit blur.

Koay took this photo that's why can see the 'unwanted' background all. Hahaha. Love you still babe.

Funny thing though, when we sang the birthday song, Sha Lynn thought it was for her. Her expression and reaction was priceless. Haha. 

Then, on Friday night just before cell group, some of the Forge members came over and decorated her room with pretty fairy lights, photos and 'love' notes. IT WAS SO PRETTY that the first thing she does now when she wakes up is on those lights and go back to sleep. Awww.. Such love is in her room. 

I thought I saw some water in her eyes as she reads those notes *winks*

Excuse me, Mister Koay if you are reading this now, you know what to do. Hahaha. Kidding lah. I still haven't fix up the balls of lights that you got for me. Maybe we paint my room again? Other colors this time? :)

Okay back to her birthday. 

Somewhere along the weekends, she received sweet gestures from her friends and stuff, so that was really nice. One of it that I really thought that it was sweet was Jonathan sending a box of KFC meal to the cafe when she was working. Manatau, she forgot to bring them home. *clap hands* 

The surprise that we planned for her was a birthday lunch at Seoul Garden. It has always been her favorite place to eat. We don't go there often because it's just barbeque and steamboat at a very expensive price. So yeah.

We invited all her friends and get them to be there at 145pm. I only told her that it was going to be lunch with Koay, Kelly and me. That was going to be her birthday prezzie from Koay.

She walked in, and walaaa! I think what shocked her most is seeing her high school friends there as well. Earlier, I told Sue Ann to ask her for a movie/makan outing that day afternoon and I 'convinced' Vanessa to nicely tell Sue Ann that she cannot make it because got lunch with me. 

So, Vanessa initially felt sad that she cannot join her friends all,  but when she saw her friends face in Seoul Garden, she was shocked and happy. Yay to us!

Thank you guys for making it a great one and for paying for yourself. Hehe.

Goodbye, Ah Pui.

From the time I was born till I enter Primary 1, my grandmother (mom's mom) took care of me and two boys. She was a full time nanny to us three. Two boys and a girl. The two boys are younger by one year I think, I can't really remember. 

We parted ways at the age of 7 to different schools and have never spoken to each other since. I don't remember how they looked like anymore. Actually I still can lah, just a little.

Growing up with those two boys have always been a very big part of my life. Those years meant a lot to me but somehow I've never talked about it to anyone, until recently. 

As kids, we don't really remember things that happened, but for me, time spent with them were one of the memories that are still crystal clear. I didn't realized that this child-friendship have such a strong place inside until I got the news about one of the boys.

I named them Ah Pui and Ah San. Obviously because of how they were at that time. Hah. 

On Sunday, Ah Pui's parents came to church. My mom recognized them and when I look at his mom, she did look familiar. When Rachel came to me and told me about it, I was shocked and happy. 

I was going to ask, 'Where's Ah Pui?" when she continued telling me that a while ago, Ah Pui committed suicide because of depression.

I was shocked. Shocked beyond words. 

Something in me snapped. It took me a good 5 minutes to let that sink in and when it finally did, tears came down. I tried controlling but there is no stopping to it. It broke my heart to hear this. It's really difficult.

I thought that I will not be that affected since it has been 20 years of no speaking/seeing each other, but wrong. 

I stood there and I let those tears rolled down freely. I knew crying will make me feel better. I need to know more about his death but I was told not to ask his parents because they are still having a really hard time accepting that. I need to know where he was buried. I need to know when it happened. I need to know how he looked like now. I need to know if we ever crossed each other's path somewhere along the line. I need to know.

Ah Pui has always been the noisiest, craziest and funniest among us three. He's always the one with all the crazy suggestions, only to get us into trouble. We always get into trouble, but my grandpa will always be the superhero and stop my grandma from scolding us. 

Oh and Ah Pui taught me how to do handstand. Actually, both of them were probably the reason I'm so not feminine now. Haha. Who knows. 

It's funny but it made me miss childhood so much that I'm determined to find Ah San. My only one left. 

I regretted that I didn't make any effort to find both of them despite speaking about them almost every year during family occasions. 

This is actually very difficult to put into words. I just wanted to blog about it because this is important. 

Holding back tears as I type this. 

I'm not very good at accepting death. I think that it's one of the hardest thing that anyone has to go through. Especially those who are close to your heart. 

Who knew that Ah Pui and Ah San still have that special place in me after two decades? Who knew.. I don't even know if they remembered growing up with a girl.. I hope they do. 

This is goodbye, Ah Pui. 

A difficult goodbye. 

You are loved and will always be missed. 

Always.

Three Words.

Today has got to be the busiest Monday since I've started work. 

Or it could be because the lift is not working and I've walked couple of times up and down the stairs. My table is on the 4th floor. Yep.

But in the midst of all the crazy things going on in this office today, I miss my best friend. My head is packed with so many things to do for roadshows and advertisements and running here and there, but my heart misses the boy. 

Not that we haven't been spending a lot time together. In fact, we have been seeing each other everyday for the past two weeks. 

I don't know what you call it, but I miss him. I miss seeing his silly face, his hand holding mine. 

I miss being with him. 

It's crazy because I just saw him yesterday, and I'm missing him like it's been few weeks not seeing him. 

What do you call this really?

Busy like mad but still have time to think of the boy who never fails to say, 'I love you' everytime we end a conversation. Even if it's just a 'I'm downstairs. You can come down now', he will always end with those three lovely words.

I miss you, you gila boy.

Lazy Saturday.

It's just so rare that we have two Saturdays off from the regular youth service. It feels weird.

Anyways, spending some time with his family over dinner and with couple of friends later on.

Since it's raining, we are buying back dinner because it's such a lazy Saturday. Lazy rainy Saturday and I'm in the mood to wear nice clothes and put on my lip gloss, but lazy to go anywhere else. WHATISTHIS. 

Okay got to go because pizza is back!

:)