Reviewing 08
A belated Merry Christmas to everyone~ :-)
Time really flies, and we are at the end of the year yet again. A good time to look back and reflect on what have we done in the past one year.
Jan:
Started the year with ah mi's cousin's solemnization. Spent lots of time stressing over the flat issue. :S Backache galore for me too as I spent quite some time at the specialist. (heng can claim ah)
Feb:
Ah mi survived the much dreaded CNY, and I got diagnosed with slipped disc. :( We got another bad number in our balloting attempts and felt quite miserable again. :(
Mar:
Got officially downgraded to PES C9L2, so more or less no ICT lo~ (downside: have to live with backaches for rest of my life :S) Enjoyed some nice quiet weekends too, while we still KPKB about the flat issue.
Apr:
April balloting began and we tried our luck once again. It was going to be our last ballot before we go for a resale flat. Ballot results came out and we got queue number 1190 for 490 flats. We also went for our first Marriage convention which was a series of marriage prep talks. :)
And of course, April was the month for dear ah mi's birthday, and she looks prettier with each passing day (must be the effect of being loved *blushes*)
May:
Planning and budgeting for our wedding had officially started, even when I was doing some ad-hoc planning previously. With our disappointing April ballot results, we began to look out for nice, affordable resale flats. :-( Oh and Sunghwa came to visit with his newly wedded wife and we had a nice gather with my long lost pal, Made. ;-)
Jun:
After the planning session, we thought that we had better get the process going by checking out bridal studios and stuff. After running around in the hot sun and getting ambushed by sales assistants from bridal studios (trapped for hours), we finally decided on the bridal studio and the pre-wedding photography. We even got our wedding bands as a bonus~ ;) Another noteworthy event this week was the first ever parents meeting session for us. It's kinda scary at first, but we managed to survive it.
As for the flat issue, who would have thought that after getting a queue number of 1190 for 490 flats, we could actually get a flat. We got a 2nd storey flat, but it was really better than nothing and we are really really pleased with it. :D
Oh we also confirmed our big day as 27th Sept 09 @ Swissotel Stamford, which supposedly is good for the both of us.
Jul:
We finally got the keys to our new flat and it's a huge bunch of keys. :D
This month was pretty much spent on the checking and cleaning of our flat. Also, there was quite some unhappiness in the wedding planning due to expectations of parents, but it was quite expected.
Aug:
We welcomed baby Jonah to this world with his proud parents, Howard and Karen. Here's hoping that Jonah will be a healthy and happy baby~
Had a nice trip to the Zoo with the guys this month too. Quite a lot of ranting, this month too, so I guess it was not a very good month for me. :-P
Sept:
Celebrated my little cousin's 21st birthday and accidentally disfigured his cake (told you not purposely le :-P)
Did some more confirmation with our wedding vendors and attended ah mi's cousin, Sharon's, wedding too.
Oct:
Found out that there is going to be another Formula 1 race in Singapore in 2009 and the final race day is going to be on our wedding day itself! @#$%&!!! Was quite busy doing some damage control and contingency planning.
Also, our wedding bands were finally ready after a second resize due to my fat finger. The next problem was that we do not know what we want to engrave on the ring.
For our flat, we found that we are not going to be the first occupants of our flat as it already had occupants living there, and they are BATS! Our new home suddenly became a real bat cave (eat your heart out, Bruce Wayne :-P)
Nov:
My birthday! :-D
Officially started our hunt for furniture and made our very first purchase of furniture, which is a nice dining table set.
We also had our very first fish spa at Harbourfront, which was very interesting and very ticklish~
Dec:
Went for our first cruise on SuperStar Libra, and probably gained 5kg together after eating non-stop on the ship. We visited Phuket for a very brief tour and went back to the ship to carry on our non-stop eating. :-P
We also got our wedding shoes, and ah mi took the chance to stock up on her dwindling supply of shoes.. :-P
I got the chance to organize my annual class chalet for my JC classmates, who are more or less still in contact with one another, which is fantastic. :D
As for Christmas, we had a nice Christmas lunch at Loyd's place, where we had a great time in the company of our dear friends.
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And that, is about all for the year of 2008. It's a year of ups and downs, and in summary, it has not been a very kind year for me and I'm quite glad that it is finally coming to an end.
Next year will be an even more hectic year, but there will be more things to look forward to, with our new home ready, and our wedding happening in September. I can't wait to go into the next year with ah mi by my side.
An early Happy New Year to you all, and have a blessed year ahead!
Pete signing off for 2008.
Time really flies, and we are at the end of the year yet again. A good time to look back and reflect on what have we done in the past one year.
Jan:
Started the year with ah mi's cousin's solemnization. Spent lots of time stressing over the flat issue. :S Backache galore for me too as I spent quite some time at the specialist. (heng can claim ah)
Feb:
Ah mi survived the much dreaded CNY, and I got diagnosed with slipped disc. :( We got another bad number in our balloting attempts and felt quite miserable again. :(
Mar:
Got officially downgraded to PES C9L2, so more or less no ICT lo~ (downside: have to live with backaches for rest of my life :S) Enjoyed some nice quiet weekends too, while we still KPKB about the flat issue.
Apr:
April balloting began and we tried our luck once again. It was going to be our last ballot before we go for a resale flat. Ballot results came out and we got queue number 1190 for 490 flats. We also went for our first Marriage convention which was a series of marriage prep talks. :)
And of course, April was the month for dear ah mi's birthday, and she looks prettier with each passing day (must be the effect of being loved *blushes*)
May:
Planning and budgeting for our wedding had officially started, even when I was doing some ad-hoc planning previously. With our disappointing April ballot results, we began to look out for nice, affordable resale flats. :-( Oh and Sunghwa came to visit with his newly wedded wife and we had a nice gather with my long lost pal, Made. ;-)
Jun:
After the planning session, we thought that we had better get the process going by checking out bridal studios and stuff. After running around in the hot sun and getting ambushed by sales assistants from bridal studios (trapped for hours), we finally decided on the bridal studio and the pre-wedding photography. We even got our wedding bands as a bonus~ ;) Another noteworthy event this week was the first ever parents meeting session for us. It's kinda scary at first, but we managed to survive it.
As for the flat issue, who would have thought that after getting a queue number of 1190 for 490 flats, we could actually get a flat. We got a 2nd storey flat, but it was really better than nothing and we are really really pleased with it. :D
Oh we also confirmed our big day as 27th Sept 09 @ Swissotel Stamford, which supposedly is good for the both of us.
Jul:
We finally got the keys to our new flat and it's a huge bunch of keys. :D
This month was pretty much spent on the checking and cleaning of our flat. Also, there was quite some unhappiness in the wedding planning due to expectations of parents, but it was quite expected.
Aug:
We welcomed baby Jonah to this world with his proud parents, Howard and Karen. Here's hoping that Jonah will be a healthy and happy baby~
Had a nice trip to the Zoo with the guys this month too. Quite a lot of ranting, this month too, so I guess it was not a very good month for me. :-P
Sept:
Celebrated my little cousin's 21st birthday and accidentally disfigured his cake (told you not purposely le :-P)
Did some more confirmation with our wedding vendors and attended ah mi's cousin, Sharon's, wedding too.
Oct:
Found out that there is going to be another Formula 1 race in Singapore in 2009 and the final race day is going to be on our wedding day itself! @#$%&!!! Was quite busy doing some damage control and contingency planning.
Also, our wedding bands were finally ready after a second resize due to my fat finger. The next problem was that we do not know what we want to engrave on the ring.
For our flat, we found that we are not going to be the first occupants of our flat as it already had occupants living there, and they are BATS! Our new home suddenly became a real bat cave (eat your heart out, Bruce Wayne :-P)
Nov:
My birthday! :-D
Officially started our hunt for furniture and made our very first purchase of furniture, which is a nice dining table set.
We also had our very first fish spa at Harbourfront, which was very interesting and very ticklish~
Dec:
Went for our first cruise on SuperStar Libra, and probably gained 5kg together after eating non-stop on the ship. We visited Phuket for a very brief tour and went back to the ship to carry on our non-stop eating. :-P
We also got our wedding shoes, and ah mi took the chance to stock up on her dwindling supply of shoes.. :-P
I got the chance to organize my annual class chalet for my JC classmates, who are more or less still in contact with one another, which is fantastic. :D
As for Christmas, we had a nice Christmas lunch at Loyd's place, where we had a great time in the company of our dear friends.
=========================================================
And that, is about all for the year of 2008. It's a year of ups and downs, and in summary, it has not been a very kind year for me and I'm quite glad that it is finally coming to an end.
Next year will be an even more hectic year, but there will be more things to look forward to, with our new home ready, and our wedding happening in September. I can't wait to go into the next year with ah mi by my side.
An early Happy New Year to you all, and have a blessed year ahead!
Pete signing off for 2008.
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