Dearie's 28th at Sawadee Thai Cuisine

Backtrack to January when I brought Dearie to a thai restaurant as the boy requested for Thai food. It was both our first time and we were glad the meal did not disappoint! We were super satisfied with them! :D

We ordered so much food but we finished every single bit of it cause it's too good! Yummeh!

Went back home and I also ordered an Earl Grey cake for him! It was moist and refreshing as well. Kinda interesting for a birthday cake too. The price was kinda steep but well, birthdays are once a year hehe.

The usual family routine. Individual photos hehe.

We should have turned off the Tv. haha. 

Executing the precise cut lol

I wish for all the good things to come your way in life my dear boy! And many more birthdays together ahead ♥

First Promotion! :D

I'M PROMOTED!!!

This has got to be the greatest and bestest news of the year for me!!

It happened yesterday morning when I was in the midst of having my breakfast, and saw my Director's name blinking on my phone. After a second of hesitation, I quickly picked up the phone and the next 2 minutes, I was on my way to the Director's room. It has got to be the longest walk ever man walking from one end to the other end of the branch.

Once I reached her office, I saw her and a few managers in it so I loitered outside for a second before my manager saw me and waved me in to the room. It certainly felt weird knocking, opening and closing the door. I said hello and there was a 1-2 second of silence with the bosses grinning at me. Thankfully, Director spoke before the awkwardness settle and she handed over the above letter to me!! I was still feeling quite surreal that it is actually happening and I'm being promoted! After received a bout of Congratulations from them, I'm out the door. I was once again greeted by another wave of Congratulations by my colleagues when I was out of the door.

My heart was beating so fast when I returned back to my workstation and frantically whatsapp the boy of the good news with my trembling fingers. Haha. It took me awhile to collect my nerves and get to work properly man. News seem to travel fast though and I received several Congrats as the work day goes. It was a total red carpet moment to have people congratulating me la haha.

This being my 6th, coming 7th year of work, the hard work and effort put in along the way is definitely not easy and I am super thankful for this great recognition. Nonetheless, with this promotion and the change in designation, I believe the bosses will have more expectations in my work performance. I can only hope I live up to their expectations and standards.

The day ended with a celebratory dinner with Dearie at Coca steamboat! Albeit it being a super rushed dinner and him suffering a little bit of indigestion and bloatedness thereafter, it was all good and I truly am really happy beyond words!

8 years of LOVE // ♥ THE PROPOSAL ♥

Today is our 99th monthsary. We are also engaged for 3 months now. I can't believe it!

And I'm finally penning down the proposal entry!


3 MONTHS EARLIER (23/09/15)

On our 8th Anniversary, both of us took leave to spend the day with each other. It started off like how our usual anniversaries are like, going for an awesome brunch, followed by movie then dinner. That's how our usual monthsaries are like too actually haha.

So that day was really nothing too out of the ordinary. Except we were going Rochester Park for dinner..

Brunch was at The Missing Pan! Not sure why we drove all the way to Bukit Timah but since it's on the way for us. There we went!

Brunch was absolutely yummy! It's been a long while since we had such good brunch food so totally no regrets for going all the way to the West of Singapore haha.

Thereafter, we went to catch a movie - The Everest! The movie was kinda upsetting by the way as it's based on a true story. And I really dont know why we chose to watch something sad on our anniversary. LOL. Maybe cause there wasnt too much of a choice.

So anyway, Dearie brought us to UNA at One Rochester for dinner that night.

Way before this, I had a teeny feel that he might pop the question as the restaurant was way too atas for our standard. We never even go Dempsey Hill together once! But part of me was telling myself it might be because he just started working and decided to spend abit more on our special day haha. Trying to manage my expectations so I dont end up being too disappointed if it did not happen lol. Also, he did not give me any flowers that morning when we met up for brunch so I brushed the thought aside haha.

We chose alfresco dining since the weather was pretty cooling that night. Here's me and a glass of white wine which the boy ordered. Still cannot appreciate wine for that matter but at least I had a few sips haha.

Dinner started off with complimentary bread with olive oil and vinaigrette aside. The bread was tough and hard man. But I quite like the bread sticks! Hehe. 

UNA is a Spanish Restaurant so of course we ordered seafood paella to share! The portion was just nice and we finished everything!

We ordered a side of potatoes to share as well but it was way too dim for a good picture so I could only make do with this.

So while we were in the midst of eating, Dearie kept pestering me for his handmade card so we exchanged! We agreed on no gifts so we din prepare any for each other hehe. This was what I got. My first thought was wah what a huge book effort max but really pretty!

And as I started looking through the contents of it, I grew more and more suspicious cause it speaks about our milestones together for the past 8 years. And I knew it was coming.

That's when he stood up and came over to my side and started talking about how we have spent our years together, how I was always with him through it all, how he will continue to love me, take good care of me in our remaining lives together. I couldn't really pay attention cause I was in shock myself haha so I just kept nodding lol.

And he popped the question and I say "Orh, Okay!" instead of Yes lol. Told you I was in shock I can't even answer the question properly haha.

Here's him putting a ring on it ;)

If you are wondering, the photos were taken by the staff using Dearie's phone but most of them were pretty blur. Maybe he's feeling equally excited for us haha. But thank god we have these few photos for memory sake!

And so.. I have my flowers too! It was sent to the restaurant so the staff presented when we were done haha. So smart of him!

The boy behind it, I would like to think it was quite successful! I ask him later on and he said he wasn't even nervous but then he did tremble abit when putting the ring la haha.

And after everything was over, we went back to our dessert and behave like nothing happen lol, but I was basically drilling him on how he planned all this, while gushing about the flowers and scrapbook in between haha.

Dinner definitely ended on a sweet note for us :D

Sooo..

WE ARE ENGAGED!!!

I like that the proposal was an intimate affair with just the both of us, but I was pretty surprised he decided to do it in a restaurant with an alfresco setting because we did not want it to be a public affair at all! Thank god everybody was minding their own business that day and not much attention was on us, except for the couple on our next next table where the guy said "eh eh proposal!" to the gf when it happened lol.

Happy me!

Went back home and started snapping photos! The ring was a good fit so there was no resizing needed! ♥ (Dearie must have noted down my ring size on our countless trips to the jewellers hehe)

The contents in the scrapbook! I would like to think it was pretty well done and am definitely impressed!

We were swarmed by lots of congratulations around us the day after the proposal. Friends around me wanted a piece of the story as well. Nothing has since changes after the proposal, or maybe I became more sweet for a few days cause of the euphoria rush, but back to my normal self after that haha.

Lots of people started asking about wedding date, choice of hotel venues etc! My first reaction was: Way too fast guys!! Plse let us soak in the engagement period and start planning when the time is right!

Anyway, we have discussed and decided that we want to hold our wedding in 2017, hopefully our house is ready by then so we can move in straight away. So for now let's chill ya. Haha.

Singapore Formula 1 Grand Prix 2015

Finally blogging about the F1 event that we went 2 months back!

It was a gift for the boy for our 8th anniversary! He always wanted to attend one of these races, and with maroon 5 concert appearances, that gave me more reason to purchase! Not that we were much of maroon 5 fans, but we always think their songs are quite catchy and nice.

So the day came for us to collect our tickets! Queue was long but moving really fast so we were done in less than half an hour.

And 2 days later we headed to Padang! We got Zone 4 walkabouts tickets so we can walk around Zone 4 having different glimpses of the passing race cars. And to be honest, they were so fast you can barely take a proper photo of it unless you have a mega zai DSLR.

The area was really huge. Lots of merchandise and food booths were set up. But everything was so expensive! Just the tops are going at a range of $80-$100+. They are also selling umbrellas, caps, windbreakers and alot more. 

 It's like a big party going on with music and beers going around with food like fish and chips! The experience really felt very angmoh-ish!

We eventually succumbed and bought a cup of beer to cool us down. But I just took a sip and that's about it haha. It's $12 for 1! Not cheap at all lor. Haha. 

There is this pit stop challenge where event-goers can try and see how fast they can change wheels. Not easy man.

So after awhile, we plopped ourselves at the Padang field to await for Maroon 5! We wanted to get good views so we were sitting there watching the races through the screens.

And when Maroon 5 came up, the crowd just scream lk nobody business and it became a standup concert really quickly. They performed for 1.5hrs and it was super high and amazing! Definitely enjoyed my first concert with a angmoh band haha. Thumbs up for the experience! (except for the fact that there might be some idiotic angmohs who went abit too crazy and stand throwing bottles?!, or sitting up on their friend's shoulders and blocking other people's view, and getting brushed by people with sweaty arms.)

We had a really smashing night! It's been a kind of experience but just once will do haha. Tickets are expensive but its the experience that counts. And it's been awhile since we were so happening we were home at 1am that night lol.