2014, CNY, Busy, Movie catch-up!

It has been a great start to 2014 I must say, alhamdulillah.

And then there is the Chinese New Year period coming. Yes, I am not so much excited about it, although I should be. Long weekend and what not. Work has been intense and it's gonna be like that for next week as well. I don't know what it is, I try to give my all in work but somehow there's just something lacking. I don't really understand how people want us to be? Like for example I have to call people just to inform of the date and time somehow I'm the one getting scolded for no particular reason just for wanting to notify them of an appointment. I think it's the CNY stress getting to them. But then again, I should learn not to take things to heart. How can I not though? I greet them nicely and speak in a nice manner. Not even a thank you from those not so nice people. I'm the one saying thank you at the end of the calls. What is going on here. I think there must be more ungrateful people here. Like what happened to our courtesy and manners? Why are there so many grumpy people. Makes the world much more sadder to live in. Okay enough rantings, just move on and keep being happy and don't let it get to you. That's what I keep telling myself to do every single day. Don't get me wrong, I love my job most of the days, just some days, not loving them.

So, if it's not too late, here's wishing a Happy Chinese New Year to all my Chinese friends! Gong Xi Fa Cai! Hope you'll have a prosperous new year with health and wealth! 

On the brighter side of things, I find that for me, things are starting to fall into place. Alhamdulillah, I am really thankful! On Thursday was my appointment with HDB. Thankfully, we got the unit that we wanted. So very happy about it!  And that was also my mum's birthday. For the celebration of both my mummy and my brothers' birthday, we went to Swensens! It was so nice being together as a family! Especially on birthdays! We went to Changi Airport and there was this Spongebob Display, so I kinda got a bit over-excited about it.

Movie Catch-Up

So, the boyfriend and I have been watching a few movies and well, what is there to do going out on a date? Haha, yeah, we just love watching movies! And finally a Saturday that I can spend with him as we don't normally go out. So, going out on a Saturday feels amazing. I really miss going out and spending more time with him all to myself. But sadly, we have responsibilities to carry out. I have work, and he has his NS still. Which I might add, is finishing soon. Finally graduating from NS, in their case they call it ORD. Which means they are finally done serving 2 years of National Service. No, I shall not pressure him with what he has to do after that. Obviously he has to go straight to working. I am definitely proud of my man. 

Okay, so I might have gotten sidetrack abit there. Anyways, I spent some time to catch-up on movies, and no, we did not watch all of it within a day, but over a period of time. I just wated to share what I thought about the movie.

I, Frankenstein

I thought it was a pretty good film. Though the boyfriend did not agree with me on this one. I honestly really like the movie. I guess, not everyone will like this movie. I got  bit confused in the beginning of the movie. 2 sides were actually after Frankenstein but overall, I find that it was a pretty decent movie. 

Devils due

Alright, I must admit, I felt pretty stupid getting nervous at the start of watching this movie. I'm not trying to say that it's not scary, but I just felt that they could have done more for the movie? But anyway, it was an okay movie, not what I expected at all. And I didn't really find a picture to put it in due to blogging at night and I don't really wanna find scary pictures popping out and scaring myself in the dark. 

There were some other movies that we watched, which I will definitely blog some other time. Moving on, I have been catching up on english dramas as well. One of my favourites has go to be Baby Daddy! 

Baby Daddy

Okay, who else is seriously hooked on this show! Seriously, how can you not be? It has two of my favourite people in it. Jean -Luc and Chelsea Staub. So towards the Season I've been wanting for Ben and Riley to just get together already. I shall not comment any further, not wanting to spoil anything, but seriously, it's such and amazing drama to watch! Isn't Emma just adorable!

To end of this post, we celebrated kak Aisyah's birthday in January as well! We all gathered over at our boyfriend's place so that we could surprise her by being there. She really did not know we were there!

They actually surprised me with a cake as well as I did not have the cake cutting on my birthday itself. I was so shy! Haha, but it was a nice feeling. I could not be more thankful! Ahhhh!

Okay, I shall end it off for now.

Till then,
XOXO

New Year, No resolutions yet, nice blog and addicted to youtube.

 So, it is already the start of the new year. Really don't know whether I should be happy about it or not? I feel that 2013 flew by very fast. Like lightning. Don't you? No resolutions what-so-ever. I really don't fulfil them, so I just don't really have them.

Wow, I really do not know if the things that I wanted to do in 2013 has already been done? But whatever it is I had a really nice 2013. I hope you did too! Although, I did not really do much on new year's eve. Neither did anything on new year's itself too. Well, I'm just not the kind of person who goes all out in welcoming the new year. Whoops? I'm a stay in kinda girl, really hates crowds so much. Yeah, I get easily irritated. I just pretty much stayed at the boyfriends place while waiting for him to end work, and trying so hard to stay awake! Haha, yeah I like to sleep early too. But I did went to his relative place though, for a housewarming. I was really nice as it was a different culture. His mum side has Indian blood btw, and it was such a nice new experience for me. Yes, I really enjoyed myself. The food, oh, the food was so amazing! It was so delicious that I took two servings of rice! I don't usually eat much rice, but their curry was so delicious I just gave in to that. 

Okay, so I was looking through facebook, and came across this link that a friend shared. It is a guy who blogs about 'Understanding your NSF boyfriend better' that caught my attention. So, I went on and read about it, and I really liked what he wrote about. Yes, as you can already guess, my boyfriend is still serving his National Service. He's in the Army, and it was really difficult for us in the beginning, not that we don't have problems here and there now, but we learn to deal with it better. Does that make sense? Well, it was never easy, I like seeing him, I like spending time with him, but time is always not on his side. He is still undergoing the book in, book out routine. Yeah, I find that annoying, but I learn to understand that he kinda doesn't have a choice. So, I try putting myself in his shoes, he's the one going through all of these, how much time he does not get to himself to be able to do the things that he want to do. I nag lesser and I complain lesser to him. The decisions and plans that he made always has a reason behind it. So, I just have to be thankful and went along with it. 

Yes, I can say I am a proud girlfriend. How he managed to not vent his unhappiness at me even after what he had been through the week in camp. It's true, they don't share their problems, but I do constantly ask him if he's okay how was his week and all. They will open up at some point, but I know him well, he does not like talking about his problems with me unless it is really bothering him. And now, he just have 6 more months to go to finally ORD. Yes, I am very happy about it. He has been going on about wanting to work and all. I really am thankful that we managed to pull through it together, we learn to grow together, becoming better individuals together. It takes a lot of patience and understanding, but there's also the part where you have to work together in this. Just a simple text will make the other smile. Also, understand that your boyfriend is in camp and it may be difficult for him to get in touch with his phone. Always have each others' back, and hopefully it'll make things easier.

So, here it is the link to his blog: http://www.derickwjtan.me/

And here is the link to the post about understanding your NSF boyfriend better: 

http://www.derickwjtan.me/2013/05/29/understanding-your-nsf-boyfriend-better/

Trust me, you'll like what he writes about, at least I know I do. 

Yes, I'm sure some of you might have this same addiction. I just really can't stop watching videos on Youtube. Like I can spend like half a day watching videos after videos and still think that it's not enough and I do it again before I go to bed. And I still watch it even though I'm falling asleep and the phone keeps falling to my face. Them. They are the one's keeping me from getting away from Youtube apart from Ellen.

Hope you'll have a nice start on a new year, with new resolutions.

Till then,

XOXO