2009 is a year of

of many "first" for MT and Me.

This is the conclusion which had dawn upon me while I was writing Xmas card to me. It was also the only hand made xmas card that I made for the whole of the 2008 and 2009. I made the card last year and I forgotten to write on the card because of the birthday celebrations we had. This year, I had made a point to write the card and have it mail over to MT's house.

Here we go: the many "first" of 2009

the first candid picture of MT and I

spending our first Chinese Year New together

Our first Valentine together

the first year anniversary of being together: This picture was taken with in the cable car and we had sky dining. It was a surprise from MT and I enjoyed myself so much.

the first performance which we attended - Breakout. MT promised me that if the musical - The Lion King ever come to Singapore again, he will treat me to the front row seats. In the meantime, we enjoyed some korean hop hop dance moves.

the first time we were apart when I went to Sydney for my sister's graduation
in Sydney.

the first cycling trip at East Coast Park

the first time we went to ION together

the first time you bought mooncake to my family

the first time in many years when I started to take pictures with my Grandma.

the very first time MT went to reservist, the very first time I saw him in his army uniform, how I can only talk to him once a day and received only ONE sms in the morning. The first time, I felt that it was so good to have MT back with me, by my side. also, the first time, I realized that MT forms a huge part in my life.

This is the first time I made the chinese kind of desert for MT. I had always wanted to make this for MT, because my sister told me this is cooling.

FOr Xmas this year, I had also received my first snow glode from MT.

Happy New Year! To a more fruitfull 2010. Goodbye,2009. It had been a sweet ride.

One Little Word 2010

Inspired by Ali's one little word to welcome the new year, I had decided that for 2010, my word will be CHANGE.

I am someone who is resist changes and hopes that change will not come.

So, in the new year, I am embracing to the changes which I except to come my way: new job(i hope), new positive direction in my relationship with MT, being able to make changes to my scrapping style and to have a more healthy me. to be a more organised ME. of course, I also look forward to blogging more often so that I will be able to look at my own memories.

For the new year, in order to improve my photo taking skills and fully utilise my DSLR, I had decided that I will make myself to take a picture a week and post it here. There're alot of people who takes a picture a day and post it up daily on either flicker or on a blog. I know that I wont be able to keep for if it is daily so i had decided that I will be postng a picture a week and by the end of the year, I will have 52 pictures to look back on what the year had been.

I turned 27 years old today

after MT's 27th birthday, it was my birthday celebration: there was the meet my mum session for MT, followed by Avatar in 3D format, dinner&coffee with my close friends. This was the day before my birthday. On my birthday, I had breakfast with my Godmum one of my fave breakfast places at Siglap. For my 27th birthday,my Godmum had decided to give me a new charm,the guiding light , a new addtion to my charm bracelet [the bracelet was my 26th birthday present from Godmum] lunch with my family. Godmum hopes that this good luck charm will bring me to better luck always and to a fruitfull 2010. very thoughtfull and sweet of my Godmum. We had a long talk over breakfast, basically to catch up with our lives and exchanged Xmas present. For the record, MT and I bought her a tea pot and a book so that she will be able to enjoy a good read while slipping tea.

It was family lunch after breakfast : Din Teng Fang. I choose this place because my father love the Xiao Long Bao so I thought that I will make everyone happy by bringing my family there for lunch.

Dinner will be with MT: just a simple meal at a favorite Japanese place where we go very often. The original plan was to have a Japanese buffet (i was having a craving for Japanese food. On the day itself, I was so stuffed with food that all I can think of is a bowl of ramen. With this in mind, we went to MOF and had our fave ramen.

On the day itself, I had also received my first precious moments water ball. It is in the picture below.

I am a year older now, I also want to be a year wiser.

Happy 27th Birthday, MT

Thank You for holding my hand when the going get tough, for making me laugh after a hard day at work, for asking me to go after my dreams and making my dreams come true.

I look forward to spending a lifetime of birthdays with you.

& December is here.

In a blink of the eyes, the year is coming to an end again. Decemember is a month a celebrations for me, also a very hectic month. The plan to hand made MT's birthday cards as well as my Xmas gifts were very time consuming but I am glad that I had decided to go ahead with the idea.

other than the Christmas gathering MT and I needs to attend, I have two friend's having birthdays, MT's birthday and my birthday are all in the same month. All in all, on the average, there will be something to celebrate every single week in Dec - not that I am complaining.

Last week, Joey and I hang out in town, caught a movie and shopped for Xmas presents : this was our way of celebrating her birthday this year.

This week, I had a friend who came to Singapore from down under. We had not met for at least 4 years but it did not stop us from talking about almost everything under the sun , the day was spent going to the different shopping malls which had opened, eating xiao long bao to sampling Royce chocolate. The both of us had coffee at starbucks, deciding that coffee in sydney is so mich cheaper and better. We then hopped over to the 313@somerset, as we explored the new shopping mall, i cant help but noticed the layout of the mall seems to be simliar to a westfield. overall, I had a productive day purchasing a new jacket for the new year and I miss girls day out!

Get Well SOON!

today, is the first time, MT had fallen very ill. Most of the time, in this relationship, I am the one who is always falling sick -flu, sore eyes, gastric, high blood pressure,fever, throat inflammation, tummy upset,etc. You should get the picture by now.

We had spent a great amount of time as well as money, going to different doctors for different type of illness, from the normal GP, to TCM and to the various specalist : high blood,skin, gastric. MT also had to monitor the type of food which I eat to how much fruits and Veg that I am taking - almost on a daily basis.

so, when MT fall sick today, running a fever at 39.2 degree. I can't help myself but worry and also blame myself for not taking proper care of him. He had been taking such good care of me and yet, when he is down with fever, I can't help much. I had to stay away from him, so that I will not fall ill.

just some random thoughts for the day.

*documenting our relationship -part II

When MT and I became a couple, I wanted to record and document almost everything down. Movies form a huge part of the dates that we went on, given the nature of our work where we get to enjoy off days during the work week, movies for us were really cheap.

In this case, I created a book to record down the movies which we had watched together as a couple, completed with the movie studs. One year later and many movies later, I am happy that in a spur of a moment, i had decided to create this movie book.

The title of the movie book "popcorn saga" was named by MT, for his love of popcorn and Yes, he must have his popcorn every single time we go to the movies, if you don't want to have them, he will coax you into having the popcorn with him. However, I am someone who cannot eat and watch a movie at the same time, once the movie starts, I will stop eating the popcorn and concentrate on movie.

The back of the book, has a simple {SHOWTIME}, rubbed on.

For some movies, like the first 3D movie that we watched together, we will also include our comments.

*Xmas gift Number One.

I know that it is only Nov and Xmas is still more than a month away. I like to get a head start in things so i had made my first xmas present to be given to JacQ as a Xmas gift. This is the first year which I am going to make my xmas present (most of them,anyway), in the past, i normally buy them at a mall and wrapped them up.

In terms of design, this is the first time I had used such a bright pink and i love it. I should learn to use more bold colours in my scrapbooking instead of the usual pastal colours. I am hoping that JacQ will like this tag book which I had made for her in the year of 2010 and that she will use it to record her monthly story.

*my army boy

In September this year, MT went to reservist for a period of two weeks. Let me sidetrack a little, MT and I work together so even before the start of our relationship, I was already used to seeing MT almost every single day( we work 6 days a week ). After we became a couple, we will be meeting up on our rest days.

As such, the thought of not being able to see him for two weeks was a little too scary for me. plus, when he goes to army, he wont be able to have his mobile with him the whole day, it does not feel good that i received a sms at 6am in the morning and i need to wait till 8pm, to receive the "phone call of the day".

This also marks the first time I saw MT in his army uniform. Accordingly to the gals at work, i looked really sad for that two weeks. The next time he goes back to the army will be next May, i hope that i will be able to do better.

This is the first layout with the so many wordings.

The mobile phone which MT bought to his camp was faulty and he did not received any of the sms which i had sent him. Instead of sending him the sms which he was not receiving, i wrote what i wanted to tell him on the notebook.

quote of the moment

"i believe that we form our own lives, that we create our own reality, and that everything works out for the best. i know i drive some people crazy with what seems to be riddiculous optimism, but it has always worked out for me."
Jim Henson

I had been updating this blog with bits and pieces of my life and even thought it is only maybe a picture, a quote or some short post. I think that in one year time, when i look back at this blog, i will be glad that i had record some bits of my life in this year on this blog.

while scrapbooking and treating even a normal date out with MT or a family gathering as precious moments seems to be riddiculous to many people around me. I had been told that "everyday seems to be the same." and how can i spend so much money on purchasing scrapbook materials.

I beg to differ but i dont want to go into an arguement on this blog so i will hold onto to what i believed and will continue to document my life and those precious moments of mine through scrapbooking.

This also means that there will be more pictures to be develop!

all ready for 2010

In the 11th month of the year, at major bookstores and the shopping malls, there will counters of calendars and new year diary. often, we will see a group of young girls or in my case, a young

adult shopping for next year calendar and a new diary or a scheduler.

This year, calendar was given to me by sweet Jacq at work, this is the cuttest calendar i had ever owned since i started to work. For my diary, I bought it at takashimaya which explains the Japanese characters.

At first, I was all going for a really mature approach in buying this year diary but i cant help myself but fallen in love with this cute japanese diary. The only downside of having a japanese diary and calendar will be : it does not show up our public holidays.

So, with my calendars and diary for the new year, I am all ready for 2010.

happy halloween

these decorations looks really neat and polished.

Personally, i dont celebrate halloween but to see my workplace being decorated in the halloween theme puts me in wonderfull mood; especially, after a tough conversations with a nasty customers.

*Back to school

there is always a rush to finish things before the year comes to an end, for me, my "rush" to compplete certain things will be the pictures which MT and I took in the first year of our relationship. i hope that i will be able to scrap them as the year comes to an end.

MT and I met each other at work so we know nothing about our indvidual school life. Plus, i went to sydney when i was 17 so i knew nothing or had never been to a local university before. So, MT and i made the trip to NTU to take a tour and look at his hostel. As for me, i bought him to my secondary school - an all girl's school. When MT walked into the campus, he had a shock of his life because he was the only male in the whole campus. [my school tend to hired all female teachers].

I am still waiting for the chance to go to sydney with MT so that we can then visit my uni and show him around my campus.

2010 calendar

I had bought my calendar for 2010, have you ? this year, i had decided that instead of the cute japanese calendar or MUJI's simple calendar, i am going for something that is handmade.

this picture had bought me over. the thing is now i need to think about how do i make it stand on my desk.

this is from sweetbeets .

*bookworm couple

the common past time which we shared will be reading, hence i decided to create this layout. Most of the time, when we hang out, it is the two of us. so, it is hard to find a picture with the both of us in the same picture. it is always the one of us taking another's picture. in this case, i decided to create a series of layouts which features the both of us.

this is the position MT is always in when either he is waiting for the mrt to come, waiting for me or when he is sick of gaming.

*our common past time will be reading a good book. book shopping is the only type of shopping which you enjoy.

*documenting our relationship

From my point of view,in a relationship,it is important that each couple has a little ritual shared between the both of them.

For MT and I, our little ritual between the both of us will be taking a neo - print on a monthly basis: for the first year of our relationship. I had added on some rub-ons on the pages itself and sometimes, even my thoughts.

this is the cover.

these were the first few couple pictures which we had taken.

bits and pieces of our life

these were my thoughts and sometimes, we were unable to go to those shopping malls that has the neo -prints machine so i improvised.

the picture of MT having his ice-cream was the first picture i had taken with my DSLR.

this book also contains pictures of our first anniversary together, first valentineday together and other moments.