Monday, February 22, 2016 @8:51 AM
Okay, update.
A month later, i'm still unemployed.
But, that's not why I'm here.
I want to start piecing together my "BIG DAY" so that
#1 when/if old age starts eating at my brain, I can come here and reminisce. Oh, but then someone will need to know about this page so they can remind me of it. Shoot.
#2 I can remember how awesome my red hair (partially) was.
So anyway, Dinesh & I got registered on the 11th of September 2014.
(i know, not really a date that many would pick. I had "dreamed" up the date 5th September but unfortunately ROM gets busy and dates were few and far between so, 11.09.2014 it was!)
We didn't quite want to plan anything big because honestly, we knew we'd have quite a bit of wedding festivities up ahead and we were doing it mainly to make it official so he could move in with us and save on rent.
I teared up a bit, and he, well, tried not to.
This picture depicts it perfectly. :)
His family flew down from KL beforehand to be there for our (first of the many) Big day.
(Random dress bought online just for the day- never worn again- mother keeps bugging me to wear it.)
(Random dress bought online just for the day- never worn again- mother keeps bugging me to wear it.)
Our mum had met his parents in KL before however it was the first time we had our families ALL in one place
Tears gone, usual self back.
We bought cheap temporary wedding bands from Couple Lab
(how very Cooolllzzz of us) to exchange and wear till we got our actual wedding bands.
We bought cheap temporary wedding bands from Couple Lab
(how very Cooolllzzz of us) to exchange and wear till we got our actual wedding bands.
My parents knew that I don't really enjoy being the center of attention (that was a common theme throughout our whole marriage experience. Being the center of attention - boy, was I unaware of things to come....) but went above and beyond to make sure the day was special.
They had ordered a traditional Sugee cake for the evening which greeted us upon our arrival at a private dining room at Raffles Town Club.
They had also pre-arranged everyone's fine dining three course meal with the restaurant and we truly enjoyed having everyone there together, feasting on awesome food.
Oh yup, there were balloons too. :)
After that, it was full speed ahead with the planning and DIY-ing (on my part) as we managed to confirm our wedding date for the 5th of September (yay) 2015.
There were lots of things to do, and honestly, i procrastinated on a lot of things - like calling the Priest to confirm his availability (will get to that later) - i hate making phone calls outside of work, weird disorder - and choosing a hairstylist/make up artist.
With the internet, we have so many choices, and that sometimes can be our downfall.
One thing I did do quickly, however, once the date, church and reception venues were confirmed was order the invitations.
I went through tons of local invitation printing websites but found alot of them to have a minimum quantity of like 100? 200?
We planned to only invite those REALLY close to us and thus keep the numbers down in Singapore and knew that we didnt need THAT many invitations.
I finally ordered them through Wedding Paper Divas - a company based in US that I had been obsessing over plenty!
The final product looked like the picture below but on shiny card so it really was quite simple and striking - exactly what I was going for.
I also went semi crazy at The Knot
and ordered ribbon, cocktail napkins and other Pinterest-clichèd things which I received almost a YEAR before the wedding.
I love these personalisation sites and hope that Singapore can really do more catching up on that trend ASAP - my wedding may be over but I HAVE SISTERS!
More next time. I forgot how much actually happened!
:) (see what I mean about #1, it's happening already)
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Monday, January 18, 2016 @9:04 AM
I just spent almost an hour doing a career test thingymagiggy
But my brain is too dead to process the (partial unless you want to PAY for the full) results
Melissa is conscious of existence, meaning, purpose, potential and destiny of humankind, people, and self. Melissa is motivated by a self-felt, self-accepted calling to the cause of good, growth, and gain in the lives of others. Influential communication of ideas is a primary way of achieving those objectives. Perception and thinking tend to be holistic and conceptual; i.e., seeing the big picture. It is important to see which of the other traits are interactive with this trait because there can be many interesting combinations. This is a major trait in cultural, intellectual, academic, and creative activities. It includes ideas, concepts, theory, ethics, and values.
Melissa has a strong preference to work under the management or supervision of others who are competent and knowledgeable in their area of expertise. This also may indicate a preference to avoid work of an independent nature (i.e. self-directed, self-planned, self-managed). Performance, morale, energy, enthusiasm, and quality of work tend to reflect how satisfied Melissa is with the working environment as created and managed by the motivational and inspirational leadership of a manager, director, supervisor, or lead-person.
Melissa does not prefer activities requiring verbatim perception, recording, and/or processing of details, especially where numbers are involved.
Melissa's preferences, more often than not, are motivated by such things as sensing and seeing aesthetics, essence, philosophical and psychological meaning, and effect of color. Melissa probably doesn't consider the saying, "Beauty is more than skin deep" as a cliche. Further, Melissa considers pattern, texture, and spatial measure: size, shape, distance, dimension, perspective, relationship, etc. with the same regard. This includes abstract dimensions and patterns, graphics, layouts, etc. (NOTE: That higher artistic sense is the source of abstract art, animated films, computer graphics, fractal geometry, new clothing designs and styles, modern architecture, etc.) Melissa would probably make a permanent mental note of the quote from Carl Jung, "The artist is essentially the instrument, and he stands below his work, for which reason we should never expect from him an interpretation of his own work. He achieved his highest with his composition."
Melissa feels both privilege and responsibility to use communication (including persuasion) to voluntarily provide beneficial information to others. This includes strongly motivated benevolent and literary traits. Self-satisfaction comes almost exclusively from the subjective realization that the information, voluntarily given, has been helpful to other persons. Melissa is further motivated to learn and understand the other person(s) needs wishes and listening preferences. Non-persuasive service communication can become persuasive and persistent when expressed in the interest of someone needing Melissa to stand up for them.
Melissa has moderate mental/sensory/physical preferences for handling material processing. This may or may not involve machines or machine operation. It basically means motivation to manage (i.e., functionally manipulate) things at hand from one place to another, from one process to another, from one material state to a new one because of the process. This can be machine work or craft work or even supervising ("bossing") the work of people.
Copy activity involves detail and routine, which is preferred by Melissa and includes reproducing images, information, etc. by machine operation and/or graphic design and layout. (NOTE: It is an asset for database management, computer publishing activity, administrative or library work, and/or warehouse processing).
Depending on the situation, Melissa generally prefers simple, routine tasks in a familiar environment. This preference of Melissa's is probably limited to hearing or reading exactly what was meant and doing as instructed. (NOTE: This is a good trait for operational, administrative, or clerical activities. {In fast-food establishments for example, it is essential.}) Three kinds of persons typically have issues with this kind of job: 1) Those who don't hear (sometimes won't hear) or remember specific instructions, 2) those who feel entitled or licensed to do it some other way, and 3) those who simply cannot, for many reasons, "keep their nose to the grindstone" in such basic, routine tasks.
Melissa does not prefer activities requiring verbatim perception, recording, and/or processing of details, especially where numbers are involved.
Melissa's vocational preferences include such activities as gathering, processing, recording, transmitting, filing, and/or retrieving information. Key preferences lean toward proper language usage, spelling and punctuation; referencing, filing, and retrieval abilities; and attention to detail.
But my brain is too dead to process the (partial unless you want to PAY for the full) results
Melissa is conscious of existence, meaning, purpose, potential and destiny of humankind, people, and self. Melissa is motivated by a self-felt, self-accepted calling to the cause of good, growth, and gain in the lives of others. Influential communication of ideas is a primary way of achieving those objectives. Perception and thinking tend to be holistic and conceptual; i.e., seeing the big picture. It is important to see which of the other traits are interactive with this trait because there can be many interesting combinations. This is a major trait in cultural, intellectual, academic, and creative activities. It includes ideas, concepts, theory, ethics, and values.
Melissa has a strong preference to work under the management or supervision of others who are competent and knowledgeable in their area of expertise. This also may indicate a preference to avoid work of an independent nature (i.e. self-directed, self-planned, self-managed). Performance, morale, energy, enthusiasm, and quality of work tend to reflect how satisfied Melissa is with the working environment as created and managed by the motivational and inspirational leadership of a manager, director, supervisor, or lead-person.
Melissa does not prefer activities requiring verbatim perception, recording, and/or processing of details, especially where numbers are involved.
Melissa's preferences, more often than not, are motivated by such things as sensing and seeing aesthetics, essence, philosophical and psychological meaning, and effect of color. Melissa probably doesn't consider the saying, "Beauty is more than skin deep" as a cliche. Further, Melissa considers pattern, texture, and spatial measure: size, shape, distance, dimension, perspective, relationship, etc. with the same regard. This includes abstract dimensions and patterns, graphics, layouts, etc. (NOTE: That higher artistic sense is the source of abstract art, animated films, computer graphics, fractal geometry, new clothing designs and styles, modern architecture, etc.) Melissa would probably make a permanent mental note of the quote from Carl Jung, "The artist is essentially the instrument, and he stands below his work, for which reason we should never expect from him an interpretation of his own work. He achieved his highest with his composition."
Melissa feels both privilege and responsibility to use communication (including persuasion) to voluntarily provide beneficial information to others. This includes strongly motivated benevolent and literary traits. Self-satisfaction comes almost exclusively from the subjective realization that the information, voluntarily given, has been helpful to other persons. Melissa is further motivated to learn and understand the other person(s) needs wishes and listening preferences. Non-persuasive service communication can become persuasive and persistent when expressed in the interest of someone needing Melissa to stand up for them.
Melissa has moderate mental/sensory/physical preferences for handling material processing. This may or may not involve machines or machine operation. It basically means motivation to manage (i.e., functionally manipulate) things at hand from one place to another, from one process to another, from one material state to a new one because of the process. This can be machine work or craft work or even supervising ("bossing") the work of people.
Copy activity involves detail and routine, which is preferred by Melissa and includes reproducing images, information, etc. by machine operation and/or graphic design and layout. (NOTE: It is an asset for database management, computer publishing activity, administrative or library work, and/or warehouse processing).
Depending on the situation, Melissa generally prefers simple, routine tasks in a familiar environment. This preference of Melissa's is probably limited to hearing or reading exactly what was meant and doing as instructed. (NOTE: This is a good trait for operational, administrative, or clerical activities. {In fast-food establishments for example, it is essential.}) Three kinds of persons typically have issues with this kind of job: 1) Those who don't hear (sometimes won't hear) or remember specific instructions, 2) those who feel entitled or licensed to do it some other way, and 3) those who simply cannot, for many reasons, "keep their nose to the grindstone" in such basic, routine tasks.
Melissa does not prefer activities requiring verbatim perception, recording, and/or processing of details, especially where numbers are involved.
Melissa's vocational preferences include such activities as gathering, processing, recording, transmitting, filing, and/or retrieving information. Key preferences lean toward proper language usage, spelling and punctuation; referencing, filing, and retrieval abilities; and attention to detail.
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How come it was easier for me to find the man that I love (well okay, maybe that is an exaggeration- it was easy for me to fall in love once I had found the right one - not saying that there weren't many "frogs" before that) but so challenging to find a job I love?
I have officially been unemployed for 6 months.
I do know that it's about time I get back into the groove of working and repairing my leaking bank account.
BUT, finding the right job is, like I said, challenging.
I've taken to job sites, classifieds, LinkedIn etc.
It's easy to browse and see things that interest me but actually applying is another thing altogether.
Perhaps i've enjoyed the freedom of being able to be present at every family gathering, always being available on my husband's off days and cooking regularly instead of eating out or shoving food down my throat after an excruciating day just to fill my stomach before crashing into dreamland.
Lets just say, I do not miss being left out of celebrations, family dinner and impromptu weekend outings due to being stuck at work.
With that being said, I've started to look out for office hour jobs instead but there are cons to that as well.
Maybe i'm fighting the pros and cons in my head too much.
It's time to start applying and going for interviews.
Starting now!
(or tomorrow..)
Lesson of the day: Dont stay unemployed for too long lest you end up enjoying it too much.
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Thursday, November 05, 2015 @7:10 AM
It's so weird reading through posts that I typed out in my teenage years.
It's made me realize that I am so different in some way and yet remain unchanged as well.
Biggest change though, would have to be my lack of romantic drama.
Fast forward 6 years and that dramatic, fickle minded girl has gotten married,
settled down and stopped letting boy drama run her life.
Another thing that's different, I used to type for others more than for myself.
I knew who was going to read it and sometimes posted things specifically for those people to see.
Now, I somehow just want something to be able to look back on in another few years down the road.
So that maybe, I have more to laugh/smile/grimace at again.
If I could give my 17/18/19 year old self some advice, it would be to worry less about what others (mostly boys) think and to enjoy the time I had.
No doubt, I enjoyed my teenage years thoroughly but honestly, I understand why my parents only wanted us to have boyfriends after 20.
Makes total sense.
Lesson of the day: Always listen to your parents. They advise because they have their own regrets and don't want to see you making the same ones (albeit how fun it seems at the time..)
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Thursday, September 10, 2009 @9:31 PM
this makes me sad
please click and read and be sad with me
:(
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Monday, August 10, 2009 @6:01 PM
Good morning sunshine,
be with me all day,
Just don't let the rain pass you by,
when it's cloudy or windy
and the snowflakes arrive,
you somehow just make me,
make me feel I'm alive.
i've not been blogging for ages.
life's real good right now.
guest relations at work, sometimes shitty but way more my style than the constraints of the reception.
zahed surprised me at my place last night with a rose and a well deserved hug (if i do say so myself)
and the day before we watched the parade + the losers of Sg Idol (minus sylvia and gabrielle of course) after making (kinda) dinner together.
my off days are coming up, i cant wait.
swimming, libraries, books, parks, chilling, smiling, picture taking, laughs- all in store.
wednesday night, either supper or brix-ing
or both?
pay increment still on the way
please come soon.
melbourne.
i'm reading "we need to talk about kevin" now.
i read the papers about the two kids who got run over by the train at upper bukit timah.
weird.
also, im addicted to nauvelle vague.
okay enough random updates.
back to work.
5 mornings, one mid shift and more mornings to come.
whoopdeedoo
tata.
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Monday, July 27, 2009 @1:42 AM
You take a seat right next to me
And I take my lit notes nervously
I've gotta stay calm, I just want you to stay.
I am always daydreaming
Hoping you've dreamt of the same thing
I've gotta stay calm, I don't want you to change.
Sometimes I think I am out of my league
And then sometimes I think I can dream
Sometimes I wish I could be the one fish
That you choose out of all in the sea
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