Yes, I have changed, so what!

Earlier this month I had a mini class gathering with a handful of my ex-sec school classmate, some whom I had not met for the last 18 years!

Most of them commented that I am still looking the same. So when I went back home, I boosted to Mr Hubby, "My ex-classmates say that I hasn't change. See, I still look as young as 16!"

Mr Hubby couldn't wait to jeered at me. "Either they lied or they were insulting you. Because you told me you look damn ugly when you were in sec school." he said.

Oh fuck! Mr Hubby was actually right. I certainly am very different now. Not just my look, my perspective, my attitude towards life, my paradigm, so much of me had changed these few years.

Back then, I was this fat, fugly loser who hated everything about myself. I was pathetic!

But look at me now. At 34, and after given birth twice, I look so damn GOOD that I am beginning to fall in love with myself! Even though I am still not quite slim yet after being stretched 20kg bigger for having Leonitus 6 months ago.

I may not be 16 or 23 or 30 anymore and I had changed, but I am glad I had. In fact, I'd never felt GREATER than now. I am proud to be the wife of a good man and the mother of our two beautiful children. That's quite a bed of roses already!

You know what, I no longer care if my look remain the same because over time everything about me will change and I know these changes would only be for the better!

Team Celebration at USS

Went to Universal Studio Singapore a few days ago, with some of the best people in the brand, to celebrate the team's success for the last fiscal year. This team has been great, but still, we can be at each other's throats when work gets a little crazy sometimes!

Shrek's Castle had one of the best 4D movie ever! I would love to bring Laetitia here one of these days.

Here is part of our Singapore Team, all Singaporean; led by our Australian leader. We are a small but hugely dynamic group!

Hey! I should be receiving one of these little men, specially this one that says, "World's Greatest Wife"!

Wrapping the celebration up by shouting out our team slogan.

"SK-II - Living the Asean Miracle, Exceeding 100 and beyond!"

*All photos were contributed by my kind co-worker. A million thanks, Joan!

3 Years of Absolute Bliss

It was our 3rd wedding anniversary on the 7th of July. I woke up with a pair of red eyes, so petrified after suffering from a bad case of conjunctivitis, I completely forgotten that it was our anniversary.

That afternoon, Mr Hubby sent me a SMS to check if my eyes were better and that he booked a table at a nice restaurant. Oh my gosh! I die die have to go lor.

We had a lovely candle-light dinner at Flutes at Fort Canning. We started off with some oysters then foie gras, which was so heavenly! For mains, we shared this really huge serving of roasted rib from a 300 days old Australian calf, complete with lots of vegetables and baby potatoes. So tender and yummilicious!





During dessert, Mr Hubby whipped out a present, it was a Rosendahl watch! He bought a pair which symbolises our union and he was wearing his black one already.






Apart from the wonderful food, we had some very good conversation too.

Mr Hubby and I are two person of opposite characters, likings and personalities. He is good with figures, I suck big time. He is sentimental; he keeps mementos which are more than a decade old. I spent 5 minutes reading my greeting card and on the 6th minute, that card will be in the trash bin. He is analytical, I am intuitive. He is a workaholic, I am more of a sloth. He can be melancholic at times, keeping things to himself; while I can be quite nonchalant to the world after ranting everything out like vomit. When it comes to money, he is good with wealth management, I am at best squandering off goldmine.

We are like one left foot and one right foot, totally opposite yet we compliment each other. I like it when Mr Hubby said, "Compliment is better than Compromise." Because it is so true!

"Compliment" works by leveraging the strength of your partner, while "Compromise" is more like finding a common ground in your partner's shortcoming. Not that we don't have any faults, but we are able to look beyond the flaws of each other and that is a challenge which thwart most marriages.

These 3 years have been the MOST AMAZING time of my entire life. Thank you my dear, for bringing out the best in me. And I thank myself for being the "Stepford Wife" many men would only dream of having. :))

Korean??

The condo which we stay has a good number of expat families, so Laetitia often get mistaken for a Korean or Japanese kid.

One fine day, the security uncle working for our condo, pointed at Laetitia and asked, "Is she Korean?" I smiled and replied, "No."

The security uncle then asked, "Are you Korean?" I shook my head, "No."

He was not giving up, "Then is her father Korean?" My jaw dropped. Why must he insist that my daughter has some form of Korean heritage somewhere, somehow.

Speaking in a 101% Singlish, I said, "NO leh! We are Singaporean, Chinese lah!"

Finally, he was convinced; Laetitia is NO Korean.