A Day in Black, Pink and Frustration.

Here's one of my favourite work dresses; A black dress with hot pink trimmings and a lush full skirt - paired with a multi-coloured skinny woven belt. Got it while spreeing in Bangkok last year!

Love the scrunched up pleats!

Come follow me to work!

Clomp clomp clomp.

Speaking of work, I've had a really bad day. Here are the list of things that went wrong:

1. Woke up with an elephant-sized zit on my left cheek
2. Faced an elephant-sized pile of work 
3. Forgot an important deadline (!)
4. Got assigned to collect a poster from our printer and drop it off at one of our stores after work, which pretty much meant overtime
5. Left office and walked the arduous journey out to the main road, all ready to hop on a cab, when I got a call from our printer that she did not receive the file to print!
6. Walked all the way back to the office, turned on the pc, saved the file in my hard drive
7. Called and begged printer lady to wait for me as its already near their closing time
8. Waited an eternity for a cab
9. Traffic jam! Waited an eternity in the cab.
10. Got to the printer's, waited another 30 minutes for the print
11. Hailed and got rejected by 3 different cab drivers because they have their own itineraries in mind
12. Got to church band practice 1.5 hours late!

Yet, amidst bad circumstances, there are always things to give thanks for:

1. Boyfriend offered kind words and a lot of comfort. 
2. Printer lady very kindly waited for me and served me with patience even beyond opening hours
3. Got onto a cab with a wonderful cab driver who agreed to wait for me while I run off to drop the poster, with the possibility of not ever returning (but I returned of course! One good turn deserves another.)
4. Was greeted with a lot of love and concern once I got to church for the practice - a big thank you to all my lovely bandmates!
5. Enjoyed an hour of worshipping as we practiced.
6. Ended the day with a wonderful dinner cum supper with boyfriend and Ling.

All thanksgivings to God Almighty, who is in control at all times. 

Anyone else had a bad day? Big hug for you! Smileeeee!! :):):)

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PMS, Boyfriend and Song Recordings.

I've been eating like a pig (cleaning the plate with space for dessert) and feeling ultra sensitive lately. That can only mean one thing - PMS!

I get the worst mood swings when it hits. Ask my boyfriend, he suffered enough to know. Every little thing has the potential to make me sad or/and angry or/and frustrated. He complains about it every 2 days but guys just don't get it that women are victims of the emotional changes as well. :( You try going :( :) :( :) :D :S :( :( :( in just 1 day! It's not fun, I can tell you that much.

This current bout of hormonal change is making me very sensitive about the amount of quality time I have with the above-mentioned guy of my life. Since our last dinner together on Thursday, I've been seeing him in church last evening, group dinner cum supper with many other church mates on last night (first time at Domino's Pizza - it ain't that big in Singapore! - and it was awesome), and group steamboat dinner with (again) many other church mates tonight. In all three occasions, we hung out with different groups and barely had time to actually talk much to each other! :(

On any other day, I would be perfectly fine with it, as I do love hanging out with the church community. But we're talking about PMS here. I was very much craving for some affection!

He left the steamboat dinner while I was in the middle of a game of Bridge, because some of them went for paintball this afternoon and were already half dead by 10pm. My insides sort of shriveled when he announced that he was going home. The conversation with myself went like this:

"I suppose he isn't very bothered by the fact that we haven't spent much time together."

"He must be tired. That's a valid reason!"

"He doesn't care about spending time with me."

"No no he's tired!!"

Back and forth I argued with myself, until he sent a message over while I was on my way home, which said, "Feels like a long time since I talked to my girlfriend properly! Would you be freeee for breakfast tomorrow? :D"

That pretty much ended the argument between me and myself. :)

Thank God that he feels the same way. Thank God that he messaged! :)

Looking forward to breakfast tomorrow. :)

Thank God for him!

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I didn't join them in paintball today because Ling and I spent 5 hours at John's place for the song recordings! It was great fun. Thank God for good voices today, John's generosity to do this for free and a smooth time of recording!

I'll put up the songs up here soon, so stay tuned! :)

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A typical(ly busy) Saturday!

Saturdays are usually busy for me, as my church service, weekly bible study lessons (I teach a group of lovely 16 year olds! :D), weekly cell group meetings (where we meet and share prayer requests and thanksgivings) all fall on the same day!

Most churches have these gatherings on separate days but since a long time ago, my church started lumping it all in one day. No complains, because its really a joy to be among my church mates every Saturday, singing praises to God together and sharing weekly updates.

I finished my lesson planning earlier than usual today (thank God!) so I had time to have lunch with my parents before heading for church! :)

Took some pics in the car as its another cheery sunny day! :)

yes I didn't iron that top. :(

Rosy blush thanks to Benetint!

Mmmm sun!

A rare jeans day. I usually prefer dresses - slip on and go!

hello new shoes!

It was great to have the whole backseat and my parents to myself for a while. :D I remember I used to be very jealous of my little sister when she first came into the family, because there goes my princess status haha. Not anymore now! She's my best friend! :)

Did you have a good Saturday? :)

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Good Friday.

is good because Jesus took our punishment and freed us from the grasp of sin.



its a gift for everyone and anyone. Have you claimed yours yet?

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Our gift for parents' day this year is a fun project: a CD with 8 of our favourite worship songs, music by the talented people from church and vocals by us! :)

We spent an hour today recording the music tracks with music prodigy Huey. Minus the time to set up the recording system and settle down, she took only 20 mins to finish 5 beautiful piano tracks! In her own words, "God created me so He's the real prodigy."

Indeed He is. :)

We'll record the 3 guitar tracks tomorrow after service and the vocals *gulp* next sunday at John's with his power song system (which he usually charges $40 per hour for!).

Thanksgiving to God for planting the idea in our heads, for providing the people and equipment to make it work and also for the gift of music. :)

Shall upload the songs on youtube when we're done kays! Must pray for good voices on recording day. :)

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It was a Good Friday well spent.

Thank God for everything!

Time for bed!

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