I'm having a lack of inspiration at the moment to blog, and I don't want to talk about what I did, what I ate and where I went.

I just want to hide in the safety of my shell for a while.

Life is normal, and it is good that way.

Oh, whenever I type the above, I suddenly have an urge to do just exactly the opposite. And this blog IS THE PLACE to do whatever I want, so I shall tell you what I did, what I ate and where I went.

So here goes....

Wedding Matters
Brian and I took our pre-wedding photos in Penang during the ast lweekend. It was all kinda rush, but we were relieved to get everything done within 3 days. We didn't intend to take pre-wedding photos initially, but after shopping at 3 bridal houses we decided it was just more worth it to get the whole package including the photography. It went something like this:

Thursday - Bridal Shop hunting, decide on one, ask if they could take our photos the next day, choose and try all gowns.(no mean feat, there were 5 gowns in total, but luckily I wasn't choosy poosy; I just want to go back and tick my "To do" box!) My nails were ugly and my cuticles were coming off at the sides, and the skin on my nose were regenerating, but we had to do what needs to be done. Frenzied shopping in the evening hunting for shoes, belt, socks and uh... nude underwear.

Friday - Whole day at the studio being photographed. We chose The Botanical Gardens and the beach for our outdoor shoot. I was a little regretting signing up for the photography halfway through the shoot. Exhausting! Our photographer kept telling me to 'put out my head', whatever that means! He was also very demanding, telling us where to stand, how to stand, how to contort the body, etc...to the point of being naggy. Brian was a little slow in following some of the Hokkien commands, cause duh, he ain't know Hokkien, and the photographer was chiding us for moving a just a second slower! I wanted to punch him. The photographer, I mean. I'm protective like that. (Thankfully Brian was very patient.) Okay, in retrospect the photographer was doing a bloody good job.

Saturday - Choose 50 photos out of 200 shots, I think. After looking at the photos, I forgave our photographer. They turned out quite nicely even before photoshop, and we even told the Sales Assistant not to photoshop them too much. Don't delete my moles! Of course they tried to sell us more shots than what the package gave, but we just gave very 'blah, not interested' look. Or maybe we just looked cheap and kiam siap. They didn't try too hard to hard-sell us. Hoping the final result will be ok!

So far the wedding preparations are going quite well, I have decided to adopt a "cincai"/"I want simple" attitude in order not to be stressed out, and it kinda worked a bit. I initially was really into Augusta Jones's dresses but they are kinda expensive and will only be worn once, so I'm placating myself by thinking of all the overseas trips I can buy with that money.

What I did
I shifted to an office with a window, in other words, I have been upgraded, with a cubicle of my own. (It came with a lot of begging, crying and reasoning with our Chief Resident before we got our places! "We need to move! It's bad for our psyche to remain in the same place for more than a year!{pretend to shed a tear}" It's a whole load of BS, to tell you the truth, but it worked! ) Ironically, the room I'm in is called Jurassic Park, it's full of old furniture and someone cheekily decorated the room with miniature dinosaurs. I'll get a pic up someday. It's fabulously liberating to have a sink and a fridge in the room.

What I ate
I ate a lot of things when I was in Penang. Now, back in Singapore, I'm still in the 'excess' mode, and went crazy when shopping for groceries. Groceries are now the only things that you'll still feel rich after buying lots of it. I forgot about the pack of onions at home, so I now have two bags of onions in my fridge, and I have to figure out what to do with them. I'll probably fry them with eggs or make ABC soup. I made Chicken Stew yesterday, and it turned out ok.

Hmm....nowadays, maybe because of advancing age, I'm feeling a little more private about my life. I want to share, but I don't know who might be reading. Gone were the days when I freely discuss my ovaries and my cavities. I am torn between laying it all out and writing mysteriously, which always end up limp anyway. And I don't want to do too much of the classic "showing off without sounding/appearing like I'm showing off" thingy, which is how I am coming to define most blogs nowadays. I do it all the time, but it's becoming too much! (Okay, I can't believe those people who LOVE to eat but stay so SLIM, maybe it's called JEALOUSY.) Looking for new inspiration, need to inject some fresh air here!

Anyhoo, have a great week!

Ps: Ok, we didn't really had to beg so hard to shift into our own cubicle, but I love to make things dramatic, it cracks me up.