Merry Christmas to One and All!

Feeling especially blessed and thankful this Christmas for this wonderful gift. It's now 16 days into my confinement and although I'm tired, I'm thankful for this little munchkin and the amount of joy he gives me each day. I'm also thankful for the nanny who wakes up 3-4 times a night to feed him so I don't have to. I'm thankful for my wonderful hubby, who has been staying home to accompany me through 28 days of torture confinement and doing the marketing and chores so I can rest, feed and take care of Lucas. 

herrow my sweetie pie!

Looking forward to his full month celebration! I busy myself with baking, planning and working from home to pass the time. So far it's been bearable because I constantly remind myself that this is probably my last days of freedom before I go into full-blown mummy duty once the nanny leaves and the hubby goes back to work.

Mini cream cheese raisin butter loaves!

Baked some mini treats for us last night as a celebratory Christmas supper. It was a simple Christmas day spent with Mum and Dad who came over to cuddle their grandson who very unabashedly slept through the whole afternoon while his grandparents waited patiently for him to wake up for 5 hours.

"Grandma will take a photo with you sleeping anyway!"

Here's wishing all our readers a very MERRY CHRISTMAS! Good tidings to everyone and may you have an awesome day with your loved ones! :)

Happy Christmas!

Happy Holidays everyone! I hope that everybody had a wonderful Christmas celebration!

We kept things simple this year with a dinner date at Shabuya and a movie. It irks me till no end that there are no Christmas or New Year's superstar collaboration movies this year. I look forward to those all the time and am immensely disappointed to not see any of such movies this time of the year.  

We took a leisurely walk at the Vivocity boardwalk upstairs to view the huge Christmas tree but any attempts to capture a shot with us in it was shot to hell because as much as hubby doesn't like to admit it, his Samsung camera phone is just as bad as my iPhone's, leaving us invisible against the brightly lit tree at the background. But the tree was gorgeous, one of the best I've seen other than the famed Takashimaya one. 

Fast forward to Christmas morning and it was time for gift exchanging!

I got him the shirt he wanted but could never find a reason to spend on. 

And he got me an awesomely unique fragrance imported from France! It smells so so good! Very sophisticated and grown up. Thank you!

Mum got me a dress I've been eyeing for a long while! The perfect blush pink dress that can be worn during cny! Loves!

Pretty pretty pretty!

And some sneaky little purchases for ourselves :)

My pretty pretty lippies!

Alcoholic -_-"

And that sums up our Christmas!

Excited about the 2014 countdown! Where will you guys be? :)

Have a very Chanel Christmas!

xoxoxo

The One with My Rants Part 2

Feeling a bit under the weather since yesterday. Despite the fact that I bundled meself up pretty good, I still found myself shivering relentlessly in the office. So I left work an hour earlier hoping to come back home and shiver on my bed instead. My initial thought was to cab home from work because I was feeling really horrid. Then I saw the cab queue at Tower 2 and was shocked beyond belief. Where did all these people come from?? 4pm on a Tuesday afternoon! Good grief!

So I thought, all rightie then, I'll take a bus to town and take a cab from there. I alighted somewhere along Somerset hoping to catch a cab. But along came my usual bus just 20 seconds after I got off and I debated for a good 30 seconds before boarding it and heading home. Just saved myself a good $15.

Came home and fell on my bed immediately with my work clothes on and napped for 20mins (all the while shivering like an abandoned puppy). Oh what I wouldn't give for a working fireplace and some warm flannel PJs. Woke up even groggier so I decided that it was time to start self medicating.
Eugene is my drug dictionary. I usually consult Dr Chua before attempting to pop pills because I'm too young to die. In my semi-conscious state yesterday I browsed my medicine box only to be faced with a bunch of nonsensical medical terms that made absolutely no sense to my groggy brain.

"Danzen, Arcoxia, Paracetamol, Acetaminophen whatchamacallit wtfffff...."

I searched my brain for something that Eugene said to me the last time I was ill, something along the line of a box called Zrytec whatever. Found and popped them, then changed into decent clothes and went back to bed. Slot in a dinner session with dad in between and that was my night.

Perhaps it's my body's way of rejecting the thought that he's away, coz I'm feeling better today knowing that he's coming back tonight. Whee! :)

Something else to get Sylvia excited about... Les Miserables in the theatres on Christmas! I have been conscientiously writing to Sistic about bringing Les Miserables, The Musical to Singapore since the last time it showed in Singapore was when I was 13. C'MON MAN SISTIC! How long more are you gonna make me wait you bastards!

Still have some Christmas shopping to get done. Hoping to finish the task at Candy Empire today because I know they have some excellent promotion on cookies. Will make a nice gift I reckon for some special people. Who doesn't like cookies! :)

Happy Wednesday Peeps!

The One with My Rants

Just got news that our wedding album's gonna be delayed.

&%^%$#^%$^%!

The JWN graphic designer is on his annual leave and won't be back till the 22nd Dec so that means that the earliest the album could be up for preview is January. Whyyyy so slow....

*breathes*

Just 2 short weeks before the countdown to the AD hits the 3-month mark. Hubs and I are planning a vacay / mini-moon in August since we have an event to attend to. But I do really wanna go on the actual honeymoon once we get the house settled. Or maybe before the house arrives, we're not really sure. HDB is really slow in updating the PCD and the tentative date is set at Dec 2013. Like really? Aren't you guys painting the blocks already?

I'm hubby-less for a good 4 days come next week. He's off to Penang for his biz trip and off again to HK on boxing day. The reality of having a jet-setting husband is starting to sink in, and is frankly getting a bit annoying. What's gonna happen when we move in together? Am I gonna be home alone in an empty apartment cooking for one and watching Sex and the City re-runs on weekdays re-living my single-dom?

Or perhaps, I'll love it even more simply because I get to do ANYTHING I WANT!! *evil laughter*

Let's shelf this thought and come back to it when it happens shall we? Remind me to blog about my lonesome / awesome self once such occasion arises.

I'm really really excited that Christmas is almost here! There's absolutely nothing better than Christmas because I looooove how cold it is (not how wet it is though), how beautiful the streets look and how at Christmas, everybody seems so much happier and brighter! Not to mention, beautiful wrapping papers, hot chocolate in beautiful Starbucks cups and amazing holiday sales... *salivates*

What do you like best about Christmas? :)