Crystal Earrings

This is my new earrings after so many years. Yup, it's made of crystal! Bought them from Stege Global Collection at Parkway Parade when I bot my HTC TyTN II! They are the authorized agent for Crystal Evolution.

Very unique huh! Both the earrings are made of surgical steel, the one on my left ear (with a hook) costs $169 & the left stud costs $49. Price varies for platinum & gold!

Saw the back of the stud? It's flat so it is actually wore from the back to front, screw at the front crystal stud. This is more secured as everytime I washed my hair, the normal gold studs will dropped out & gone. That's y I had never wear earrings for years! Anyway, the shopkeeper still reminded that I should check the screw every 2 weeks juz in case it had loosen up.

Genting/KL/Muar Trip4

Wah 4th post on my 2days 1 night KL trip! Is everyone getting tired of my posts? Haahaa... Okie, back to my story!

After shopping, we went back to hotel, decided to get refreshed, check out & proceed to Muar. When reached our hotel rooms, all the room cards cannot be used! Bil went to checked w the hotel staff & found that they had de-activated all our cards coz it's over check out time. Bil had requested for late check out when we checked in the day b4 & was approved. Hmm... how come we still got locked outside the rooms! Bil had got them to re-activate all the cards but was told only for 1 entry! Once door lock, cannot open again!!! Alamak! Anyway, after all the hoo-haas... we managed to check out of the hotel at about 1pm.

On our way to Muar! Going to miss KL, I will be back! Haahaa... Got a bit of jam at the NS Highway on the way back, opposite way is so quiet! Heavy rain on the way too! We exit at Tangkak & drove the small road to Muar. Quite a long way too, took abt min. 30mins to reached Muar. 1st thing we went to the street stores along Jalan Meriam for our late late lunch cum dinner. The wanton noodles, otah, fried oysters & satay are the best there! There are many stores selling the same stuffs so must really eyes open big big & check out which are the best stores for this yummy food! The chin chow drink (they called it "liang fen") & liang chao goes very well for such a hot weather!

Dh got a namecard from the best otah store there. Heehee... found the locals called the street as "四马路贪吃街". What a funny nick for the street! To get to Jalan Meriam, just drive straight after crossing the Muar's 2nd bridge. Very easy to find!

After the full full meal, we proceed to "Yong Sheng Confectionery" along Jalan Sayang, very near to Jalan Meriam (within walking distance). This time round, dh knew the way so we reached there quite fast by wallking. Previously we had a hard time, drving round & round the area to find the shop!

Went to this shop a few times already but seldom buy anything there coz I dun quite like to eat those local foodstuffs. Anyway this time we bot some biscuits with fillings inside, very nice! Please drop by divine-cafe to read up on what I had bought! ;)

We left Muar about 6-7pm & reached Singapore checkpoint about 9plus... Everyone was zzz-ing in the car while dh had to drive all with his sleepy eyes!

Genting/KL/Muar Trip3

We had dinner along the street of Jalan Bukit Bintang. After that, we went klkk around the area. Passed by "Planet Hollywood" & dh bot 2 tops for me! Haahaa... Continued shopping at Bukit Bintang Plaza or BB Plaza, nothing much to shop there while sil went to "The Face Shop" to purchase some facial stuffs. Returned to hotel soon after we were rejected entry at "The Pavilion KL" at 10pm.

As dh had drove a long journey, he zzz-ed vv soon after bathing. He even "forgot" to drink his tea b4 dozing off! The kids were playing in the room, so excited & dun wanna zzz while I was half-dozing off when packing the clothes.

One bz preparing his "bed" on the sofa, but end up sleeping on the queen-sized bed with us! Haahaa...

One bz making overseas telephone calls aka messing up the whole room!

Next day, we had breakie at the hotel's cafe "Kopitiam" at 7.30am. Usual western cum chinese breakfast. After breakfast, we started out quest to attack the shopping malls! Haahaa... limited time with so many big shopping malls to attack!

The 1st shopping we went is "The Pavilion KL" (the mall which rejected our entry last night rem?). Woah, this new shopping mall is big, vv big! Many shops here... a few same brand shops in this shopping mall! Dh bot a top for me from Levi's but he could not found any clothes for himself! Too bad! Haahaa...

Below are some photos taken there:
1) Dh's niece w my girl

2) Little girl throwing her temper!

After shopping at "The Pavilion KL", we went opposite to "Starhill Gallery: The Big Momma of Designer Labels". Yes, as the quote goes, this mall is filled with all the designer/branded shops! LV, Gucci, The Swiss Watch etc.... I'm not into branded goods, only know a few popular ones that I had just mentioned. The LV shop is big but messy, we left after going 1 round! Anyway, this mall is too "branded" for us & time is running out as we need to proceed to the next destination - MUAR!

So long KL (I will be back!!)
Hello Muar (Here we come!!)


To be continued...

Genting/KL/Muar Trip2

After leaving Genting, we went straight to Radius International Hotel at Jalan Bukit Bintang. Had a hard time find the hotel (as usual as we always need to spend abt at least an hr driving around KL to find the hotels!). Haahaa....

Finally reached the hotel, bil requested to upgrade all 3 deluxe rooms to premium rooms & was approved! Yahoo!!! Stayed on the non-smoking 16th floors rooms. The 2 sils got a connecting rooms while we got a room to our own. Not bad lah, at least got some privacy!

This is what I taken from my hotel room window:

Yes, that's the KL Tower (officially known as the Menara Kuala Lumpur)! Actually, our hotel is quite far from it but I used the 5x optical zoom to get this! One taken at night & one during the day! Not bad huh! Haahaa... Never realised the day & night photos when taking in KL.

Belows are some views which I had taken from the hotel room:

To be continued...

Genting/KL/Muar Trip

Had a short 2 days & 1 night trip to Genting/KL & Muar on last weekends (13 & 14th Oct). Driving 2 cars up the NS Highways, with 2 sils & their families, a total of 6 adults, 3 teenagers & 2 toddlers.

We set up at about 5am sharp from our home in SK to Tuas Checkpoint as we worried that there might be a jam if too late as last sat was Hari Raya! Surprisingly, there was no jam at the checkpoints. Reached NS Highway at about 6am, driving at an average speed of 140km/h. Playing w the GPS on my HTC TyTN II, trying to locate our position on highway (more on the GPS in my next post on the new device!).

Reached KL at about 9+ & proceed to Genting directly. As this was the 1st time that we drove up to genting (had drove to KL few times already!), we were quite blur on the route. Went the wrong way & went into Cheras town (instead of following the Kuantan sign into the highway) so we decided to have our breakfast there b4 continuing to Genting. Had a tim sum breakie at the entrance of the town, din looked out for the shop name as everyone was hungry, only noticed that the shop was packed w ppl.

After the breakfast, we turned back to the Kuantan highway & all the way up to Genting. As it was festive season, there were many cars going up too. Our cars got separated when reaching the First World Hotel & coz we were not sure of the route, dh made several turns to get to where sil's car was waiting for us. Hiazzz... finally made it at 11+, wasted so much time on the driving!

Sil got a parking lot for us when we found them. So we proceed to the lobby of the hotel! We proceed directly to the Casino. Walked passed the theme park area, the place is so beautiful, full of animal monorails, ferris wheels etc. My girl was fascinated by the surroundings & keeps pointing to them excitedly! As she only wanted me to carry her all the way, so I did not get to take the photos in Genting totally!

A sil helped us to take care of the kids while dh & I went into the casino! Woah, the casino is so different from the last time that we came in Yr2001! Sil "showed" us around as they frequent Genting with her in laws! They can spent their whole day sitting at the jackpot! But vv true that the jackpots are vv addictive! I juz played a few RM 2 cents or RM 5 cents games & got hooked! As dh & I were not casino-lovers and oso worried about our kids so we left about an hr time! Anyway I managed to win about RM$50+ from the jackpot!

We walked & shopped around the area for another hour & left for KL! Realised the beautiful sceneries along the way (when dh was busy making turns to find sil's car earlier on), I took some photos this time when we going downhill! Below are few photos of the sceneries when leaving the highland.

Hmm... a place where the saints stayed? Haahaa... Saw many saint statues & ppl praying there!

To be continued....

Facebook

This is the hottest topic in town now! I'm not into the latest trend normally but dunno why this time I got hooked onto Facebook! Previously, I had accounts in Friendster, My Space, Multiply, Hi-5 etc but seldom maintained them.

Now this new websites can really beat the rest & do wonders! It was actually set up by a 23 yrs old US boy named Mark Zuckerberg. Woah, from the latest Straits Times news on 30 Sept 2007, now Facebook got a total of 43 million active users around the world & more than 200,000 new registrations a day! That's a scary number of peoples who register leh! Heehee...

If you are interested in Facebook, do sign up & get hooked on it! Well for Facebook users, if you know me or interested to be my friend, please poke or send me a message! As I seldom add unfamiliar friends in my accounts, do leave a message like where you had found me or through which friend etc. Interested friends can search for me using Cherie Tan. Thank you!

I had set up 3 groups in Facebook to look for old classmates. Do check it out & if you happened to my ex-classmates, please join the groups! They are:

1) Li Hua Primary School - Yr 1983 to Yr 1988
2) Anderson Secondary School - Yr 1989 to Yr 1993
3) Temasek Polytechnic (Diploma in Software (IT)) - Yr 1994 to Yr 1997

If you are under the above group, please contact me in Facebook, Friendster, my blogs or email me. Tks!

OMG... My HDD!!!!

My current harddisk (HDD) has been a bit siao siao for a few months already, keeps giving me this error msg: "Primary Master Hardisk: S.M.A.R.T. Status Bad, Backup & Replace. Press F1 To resume" everytime I on the pc. Worry that my HDD cannot tahan any long & anytime might died on me so hubby decided to a bigger GB HDD to backup all my important data!

Went Sim Lim Sq to buy a 320GB HDD (treated as slave) & backup all my data there. I CUT & pasted all my data over to the new HDD. (Stupid me, why I never tot of keeping a copy in the old HDD which is normally my way of doing things. I dun mind repeating data as long as I dun missed any 宁可杀错，不可放过!). So I formatted my current dying HDD but still got the same error msg. So decided to get another new HDD for daily use & the other HDD as a backup, while the old & dying HDD can retire liao.

Hubby helped me to remove the dying HDD & installed the new HDD on master but did not unplugged the slave HDD. Coz stupid me din know MUST unplugged the slave HDD so that pc will not "accidentially" formatted the wrong HDD (maybe also I "chose" the wrong HDD to format tho I believed I did correctly as I had done formatting on my own b4). Anyway, 事事无绝对, things went wrong & I still din realised it!

Was formatting half-way then thinking to play safe, better remove the slave after that. After I unplugged the HDD, I found my formatting for something wrong, so re-do (this time w/o the slave). Happily format & installing all the neccessary softwares, then I plugged in the slave!

OMG.... what happened to my HDD??? Arrrggg.... all my vv vv vv impt backup data are all gone! Now the slave HDD actually partitioned into 2 parts & each drive only got a WINDOWS folder inside... sob sob!!!! where have all my data gone to!!!! Keeps thinking & thinking. I guessed I made a mistake for when formatting, maybe chose wrong HDD to format? But the partition was exactly the same as the master HDD... hmmmm.... how come like that? Sob sob...

Went online to msn my brother to help me & he told me to find disk recovery software online to try out & DO NOT DO ANYTHING TO THE BACKUP HDD ANYMORE. I downloaded & tried a few softwares on the old HDD but in vain. Some softwares did manage to recover data but found that all the recovered data are for drive C & not drive D (that's where I kept all my vv impt data). Sob sob....

Hubby suggested we go Sim Lim Sq to find help. Enquired a few shops for disk recovery software & accidentially chanced upon a shop owner who recommended me to try a repair shop at the end. This shop is doing repair for pc, notebook etc. Check with them if can recover my data & was told they can try. Charges was $80 - $150. If they din managed to recover, no charge. So I passed them the HDD & an Acer notebook (sil's son notebook lah). Time needed was max. 1 week.

I really hope they can recover all the data as there are a lot of my kid's photos & impt documents inside!!!!! Pray Pray!!!

Breastfeeding

Breastfeeding - A word which 普天下的妈妈 (of all generations) will know!

Breast milk is good for babies! There are many advantages of breastfeeding. Just do a search using goggles & you will find many topics on it.

Despite the advantages of breastfeeding, some mummies will still go for formula milk for their babies. Most working mums will fall into this category. They need to go back to work after their confinement. There is no way they can do direct breastfeeding during working hours. Another way for their babies to drink breast milk will be to express out. Working mums will have to do it in the office & then bring home for their babies. I have a few friends doing that for their baby. This is what we called "母爱的伟大".

Breastfeeding is not easy & need a lot of moral and physical support from husband & family. Tho like some people had say, babies can just drink it anytime & anywhere. That's good news for babies. But how about mothers? For any breastfeeding mums, they will sure had went through tough days likes blocked ducts, sore nipples, "sour words" from relatives & friends etc. Husband & family must give a lot of support & not "泼冷水".

My son was born in Yr2003. As a new & inexperienced mum, I had difficulty in breastfeeding. Tho I did try to latch but was unsuccessful b'coz baby just can't latch & I really dunno how. So, I opted for formula milk. Being a newbie, pils & sils were very "helpful". Everyone gave me their own "tips" on feeding my baby. When I tried to latch, they will ask: "got milk or not? USE BOTTLE lah"; "u dunno how to latch, USE BOTTLE lah!"; "cannot let baby cry, USE BOTTLE lah!"; "u just come home, nei nei "ciao sng" cannot let baby drink, USE BOTTLE lah!"

Aiyah, they really can think of all sort of funny things! Really buey tahan them, so "扫兴"! So, I gave up on breastfeeding after pils keeps complaining my son cried non-stop when I try to latch. Thought changing to bottle-feeding & I would have a better life but I was wrong. No more pumping of breast milk too b'coz pils insisted that frozen breast milk is unhealthy & cannot give baby. Okie, give up & use formula milk!

Things were not over yet! Pils & sils "suggestion/order" was that I should/must put a lot of milk powder (more spoonfuls than required) b'coz according to them, baby will then feel "full". Which end up, my poor son got constipation since infant. And it was my fault b'coz I did not give him enough water. Hiazzz... My son had never like water then.

Pils will "spot-check" (they would ke ke linger around when I'm preparing) the milk that I'm going to give baby & at every feed (how many feeds a day, can you imagine?) they will "talk" about the amount of milk powder used is not enough. They were very "helpful" in a way that they will keeps checking the clock & "remind" me when 3hrs is up, FEEDING TIME! "Talk" non-stop at me to make milk even if baby was still in dreamland & insisted I waked him up for milk. Alamak, I dun have enough rest already & they were giving me more problems.

That's include night feedings. Once they heard baby cry, they will come knocking at my door & insisted I must wake up asap to make milk. Really felt like, opening the door & gave them a good scolding! Lucky, we moved out when my son was about 9mths old & my life got much much better! At least I had enough sleep in the day if my son woke up for night feeds.

My girl in Yr2005, tho "experienced" but still new to breastfeeding. I decided to try out breastfeeding this time as no one will come & disturb me! Tried on my own but still could not succeed. Lucky, my friend Paw Paw stepped out & helped me thru'!! Really tks her, she is my saviour! :)

But just like what my gynae had commented, I had "over-did" it! As now my girl is already coming to 22 months & she is still on total-breastfeeding! She took solids but still she wants to latch on 24hrs / 7 days. Especially now I told her I want to wean her off. This is so tiring! I SHOULD have stopped latching since she is 6-12mths but I was lazy & continued to let her latch! Hiazzzz.....

How am I going to wean her off!!!!!!!!!!

My new DKNY bag

Hubby bought this bag for me last sunday to replace my old & spoilt projectshop bag. This bag is not the new arrival from DKNY, but is from the previous batch. We first saw it in Vivocity, Tangs with 20% discount (maybe b'coz new arrivals just came & they wanna clear stock?). This range got 3 models, the other 2 bags are much bigger than this.

Tangs only left with the white (background with DKNY wordings) & green (instead of pink) strap. Don't think green colour was nice & scare the white background will be dirtied very easily. But hubby was very interested. He had been "bio-ing" DKNY bags since few months ago but I had never decided on any yet. He checked DKNY's bags before & found their materials & sewings very good. That's what he commented but we had not own any before so hopefully he is right about it!

So, he jio me to go Takashimaya to check out! But too bad Takashimaya's bag department did not carry this range (Takashimaya's bags are all new arrivals?). Hubby, then, brought me to the old CK Tang. Saw the bag there but is the white & green one too (also 20% off). Enquired the promoter but was told that the displayed bag was the last piece liao. Hiazz... But after enquiring, I got to know that this bag actually got a grey & pink range (the one above) but SOLD OUT too..... Faint!

We decided to try Isetan at Shaw House but did not see any DKNY's bags at the bag department tho.... instead hubby "bio-ed" 1 Coach bag from far, asked me to check out the price & it was $329! Maybe my next bag from him will be this? Haahaaa...day dreaming again!

Hubby 不死心 so he said go the Isetan at Wisma Atria b'coz he remembered there is a DKNY section there! After leaving Shaw House, I remembered that should be a DKNY section above?? Or no? Blur me... cannot remember. Anyway we left Shaw house already when I remembered that. So no point going back there again.

Hate to go Orchard Road on a Sunday, the whole area was flooded with filipino maids or Indo or Sri Lanka or whatever country? I dunno who is who also, all looked the same to me. Haahaa...

Finally we reached Wisma's Isetan (after being sandwiched in the crowds!), I asked the salesgirl at the DKNY's section. She "promoted" to us that the bag is a new arrival (huh??!!) which made me excited so I asked if there is a new piece. She checked & told me: LAST PIECE. OMG, again! Then, she told me there is another colour & went over to a shelf & took out this grey & pink bag. Wah, I was really attracted to this bag!!! Haahaa... BUT (dun be so happy!) there is no 20% off at Isetan & same thing, LAST PIECE!

Hubby checked the bag & handed it over to the salesgirl to pack! Keekee.... He bought it at the original price of S$239.00... So touched leh!!! Hubby still can joked with me that I should go & "teased" the salesgirl why NEW ARRIVAL so fast no stock? Anyway, I decided to 放她一马 b'coz she say my girl very cute!! Haahaaa....

Aiyoh, talk so much on the "process" on buying the bag but have not talk anything on it! This is a hand-carried bag. A bit worried that I will have difficulty in holding my bag & carry my girl at the same time! Above is how the inside of the bag looks like! Very roomy hor, can put a lot of barang barang inside! Heehee.. But already got "warning" from hubby that no more junk in the bag!! Haahaa...

My old projectshop bag was spoilt due to my junks! Put too many things & we always got difficulty finding stuffs inside. In fact, that bag was spoilt within a month after purchasing! Err... glad to say that it was not my fault (b'coz normally new bag no junk yet :p), the sewings for holding the strap was not good & it came off.

Was waiting to buy the HTC TyTN II pda hp at the end of the year, so wanted to get a nice bag to go with it! I think I siao liao! Haahaa...

Care Bear Show

Went compasspoint on 1st Sept & realised that there's care bear show!!!! The show was from 31st August to 5th September, but we din managed to catch any of them! Reason coz dh is not interested in such cartoon character shows & I can't managed with 2 toddlers alone.

Anyway, the kids were very happy to see the posters & take photos with them! Yeah, I love care bears too!! It used to be my favourite cartoon that bring me thru' my childhood! 真是童心未免！ Heehee....

Below are some of the photos taken at the show! Hope to keep it as a memory in my blog! *Sorry for some of the lousy photos!*

To Love Or To Be Loved

Happiness is "To love someone or to be loved by someone"???
是爱人幸福，还是被爱幸福？

Everyone loved to be love! Especially for girls, they will feel happier having to be loved than to love. For guys, maybe the same but they are more "daring" to pursue their love than "submit" to someone who love them!

In a relationship, the best way is both of them love each other as much!!! But what if this is not possible in their relationship, one person love more than the other? Then is it that the girl will prefer to be loved to feel happiness? B'coz her bf/hubby will shower all his love for her & she knew that he will never cheat or betray her? Is that better than loving someone which maybe more tiring & hurtful?

To love someone, is it more tiring? B'coz we need to spend more time & effort (心思) on the person we love? We spend time missing the person, spend time thinking what he/she like, spend time thinking how can we understand him/her more or what can we do to make him/her love us more? We need to worry if they will betray us, which is more hurtful in a way if this really happened. Do we stayed or leave?

Being loved? Taking the love for granted since someone is loving him/her wholeheartedly? Is this what most people is doing when they are in a "being loved" position? We did it unknowingly, not realising what we are doing is hurting our partner, till one day he/she say they cannot continue to live with us anymore & walked out of our life! Then we REALISED but it's all too late!

Give and take is important in a relationship. We must learn how to balance this, or else will it will become an unhealthy relationship. Things will start to sour when time is long. Giving party will feel tired & taking party will continue to take for granted!

It's hard to maintain a good & healthy relationship! Keep it up & do your best!!! :)

Happiness = CAN love & be loved!

KLIM

Saw this on tv few weeks ago so kaypo took a photo of it! Anyone can remember this? Those who remember or saw it before must be living in this earth for quite while liao!! Haahaa.... Lucky, I'm someone who knew aboutt it but never saw it before... therefore, I'm not that old yet!! Haahaa...

*　KLIM = MILK (??!!)

Okie, saw this on a chinese drama called <周璇>, acted by 张柏芝! A very nice show talking about the life of a famous singer in 1930s. Heehee... A handsome singer, 许绍洋 also acting in this show. Check it out!!

Funeral in 7th Month...

7th month is here!! The most "scariest" month of the lunar year!! Oppss.. hit my mouth!!! Dun anyhow say during this month! I maybe too superstitious but I was brought up this way since young, passed down generations by generations in a traditional chinese family! Certain things or words are taboos during this month! Anyway, 平时不做愧心事，半夜敲门也不惊！

Hiazzz sad to say that I had to attend a funeral in this month, esp is a relative! My paternal grandma had just passed away on the 4th day of the 7th month... my 1st reaction was "Wah, our passed-on ancestors so fast come & bring Ah Mah down? Maybe Ah Gong missed her?" (My paternal grandpa passed away in 2004)

We (my bros & I) were not very closed with my grandma (& grandpa), maybe b'coz we seldom visit them. My dad's side relatives all stayed within same area & had a shophouse near where we stayed (my mum's hse lah). My mum dun quite like us to go down to the shophouse often. I dun really understand why mum dun quite like us to be too closed with them. But after married, encountered in-laws problems myself then I realised my mum's intention! Heehee....

But I still have some vague memories of my grandparents, esp when looking back at the old photos! Err.. I remember that my grandparents stayed in the unit above the shop when we were very young. It was later that they moved out to a HDB flat nearby. The most significant image (even for the neighbours there, I guess) is my grandma sitting at the shop everyday! Even my secondary school mate cum neighbour also remembers that when I told her my grandma's death!

My grandparents doted all the grandchildren a lot! My grandpa will go market to buy fresh prawns & steamed SPECIALLY for me when he heard that I'm going down to visit them! Heehee... coz everyone in the big family knew prawns is my favourite!!! Think no one ever "dare" to snatch the prawns with me!!!! Haahaa....

Anyway, back to the funeral! As my father-in-law also passed away early this year. Me & my own family (hubby & kids) are not supposed to join in the praying rites! Quoted by my relatives: 一个人一年里不能带两次孝！So we only allowed to attend the wake & can't go thru' the rituals. On the last day (出殡), the ceremory rites done by the Tan Clan was not as grand as my grandpa's time. Maybe coz my grandpa was the member, grandma is just wife of member so different?

After the rites, the coffin was carried to the casket van & we followed the van & walk round the shop surroundings then took the chartered bus to Mandai Crematorium. After the cremation, we (the grandchildren & great grandchildren) will returned to the wake while my parents, uncles & aunties (sons, daughter-in-laws & daughters) will proceed to a temple in Toa Payoh to store grandma's ash with the rest of the ancestors.

* 孝: A piece of colored cloth is worn on the sleeve of each of the family members for 100 days to signify mourning (Black is worn by the deceased's children, blue by the grandchildren and green by the great grandchildren).

What is Love?

What is love:

- to a single man & woman?
When we are single, we will look forward to a bf /gf.... how he/she is like, will he/she dote me like I'm the most precious/important person in the world?

- to a couple in a relationship?
Dating couples are the most 幸福 & happiest people in the world, esp when love had just blossom between them & starting of a relationship. The dating couple will give surprises to their bf/gf, say/sms/msn/ym.... "I Love You" whenever they missed each other!

- to a married couple?
Where has all the "romantic" moments they shared went to? No more kisses, no more I Love You, no more hugging? Everything seems like hidden somewhere deeply in their hearts... taking for granted that their spouse will "KNOW" how they felt for them. No need anymore "romantic" actions to show their love. Izzit really like that?

For a husband, he may think that after settling down with a marriage, he should focus & concentrate on his career... Bring the bread home & the rest will pieced up on their own.

For a wife, she maybe thinking how come my husband never loved me like before? We were not like that last time? We would call to chit-chat when there's chance, drop a "I Love You" sms anytime, give a kiss or hug when saw each other for the 1st time in a day! Now? Call to chit-chat will only get a "The M1 Customer you are calling is unavailable right now, please try again later!" or drop a "I Love You!" sms but getting no reply! SIANZ...

Time to pay more attention to your marriage, MEN!!!!! Else very fast, your marriage will be on the rocks coz we woman will pick up a quarrel anytime & anywhere!!! So DO something now!!!

**Psstt... Men!! We dun need material things to make us happy! We NEED your love, MAN!!!!

- to a divorced man & woman?
Sad to hear that a "used-to-be" loving couple actually filed for divorced! Why had a married couple had to end their marriage this way & not till old age when death do us apart?

Tot "till death do us apart" is what we had been wishing for when we were still single & looking forward to a happy relationship; to a dating couple who had been wishing for their wonderful future; to a married couple who had vowed on their wedding day that they will do so & trying to do so after married?

But why do they had to go separate ways? Due to many reasons but mainly these are some very important reasons:

1) Extramarital affairs - This is a taboo to all marriage!!! Let it be husband or wife who stray? Why do they stray? More temptations outside? Why dun they find that their spouse is tempting anymore? Lack of communications, like what I mentioned above? Take for granted that our love ones will "know" how we feel w/o romantic actions? But what if they don't? Anyway, do you NEED to stray? COMMUNICATE & improve on your marriage & not keeping quiet!!! There's no way your spouse will "feel" your love if you just "think" they know! Advice: Open your eyes big big & survey the people around you, your spouse might be getting "hooked" by someone you know or near you!!!! Dun be a fool!!!

2) Family strains - Strains? What kind of strains? In laws? Well, everyone knows that "婆媳关系" is the big headache for the husband coz they are sandwiched in between mother & wife!!! A kind of strain which inherited for many centuries! Advice: Look open!!! Say so easy? There's nothing much we can do if our husband is a fillal son! Everyone will have their own way to solve or avoid the strain from spreading out!! Do your best!!!

* Okie, no good advice from me as I'm into this situation & trying to look open but still not much open yet!

3) Emotional/physical abuse - How can anyone withstand abuse? Emotionally or physically abuse "hurt" as much! Emotional... a "higher" stage of abuse. A mental kind... can caused your spouse to become "mentally unstable" when you talk about your "real or imaginary" affairs!! Can die, man!!! Stop "mentally" killing your lovely wife softly with your words!!!!! Physical abuse, GET LOST!! Advice: Kill me, pls! (Heehee.... joking! Get professional help asap!!!!)

Sandals

Went shopping last weekends! Hubby and I each bought a pair of sandals. Mine was from Birkenstock (Papillio) for $149 and hubby's from Pedro only $39. Haahaa....

This is the closed-up photo of my sandals! Hubby chosed this pair of sandals coz of the nice beads & sewings! ;p

Introduction To My Blogs

This is my 1st post in this new blog! This is a 4th blog which I had created! Actually using Wretch but due to some limitations on blogging, so decided to transfer the blog over! Heehee... but I will still continue to explore both blogs.

Introduction of my blogs:
1) Divine-Cafe: This blog is a journal on my bakings! Hope readers from here will 捧场 my food blog very often!

2) Cher-secret-garden: Sorry no link to this blog coz everything in this blog are for my eyes only! Very personal stuffs are written there!

3) My Life & Me: Same as this blog, I will talk about anything around me!