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Christmas in Singapore 2009. I just want this year to be different.

I really want to do something different this Christmas but now that we’re back in Singapore and we don’t have our own place, it’s really hard to do anything much in this expensive city. 

As usual, all businesses are out to get as much money they can from financially strapped consumers like ourselves and it’s really tough when you just want to have a good time. 

I guess that’s probably why my past Christmas-es have always been relatively quiet. 

For some reason, this year, I just want it to be different. I want it to be loud. Extravagent, boisterous. I want it to have some presence. Some love. 

What shall I do this Christmas?

Dry skin… dry lips… argh!! winter blues!

What to wear to work on a cold wintry day?

Coming from a summer-all-year country, it’s not easy for me to come up with ideas of what to wear to work during winter.

I have enough stuff to layer up during weekends but just not enough sweaters or tutlenecks (i really don’t like tutlenecks by the way), to go around!

Thankfully the office is not usually that cold so I’m alright.

However, winter has made my skin really dry and thirsty. I have not been receiving facial care from my mum, who is a beautician, and I have been suffering from it! Like the famous saying, necessity is a mother of invention; I am typing this blog while my face is covered in a mixture of avocado and many other things. (I’ve also coerced the hubby to do the same.)

I’ve just started buying and collecting past bottles to fill up my little beauty fix salon. So let the magic begin soon!

I need to solve my lips though. They are always red from dehydration and chapping. I have never have to battle this back home and also the winter-pounds around the face.

This is a probably a good experience for me to feel both the extremes of weathers and under better how to fight them, and perhaps, in future, be able to help other women with that!

Meanwhile, I went to DFO Sydney for the first time yesterday and boy oh boy… I have gone completely overboard with the shopping and I have to watch my spending in the next two weeks!! sigh.. the life of a shopaholic trying to suppress the addict.

So to sum many many days of not blogging: the winter, although good for laying up all kinds of fashion trends, or trying out different boots and jackets, is SO SO bad for the emotional health, vanity (you put on winter-weight, get chapped lips all the time, and seriously dry skin), and electrical bills. (from heaters and the like.)

20KG?! Pas Possible.

Yesterday on the news, Qantas baggage handlers are asking Qantas to ban baggage over 20kg, personally, I think it’s RIDICULOUS. Yes, people are getting hurt from these bags, but c’mon!!! There are machines to help lift those bags and they don’t carry it and run from the control station to the plane right? YOU ARE PROFESSIONAL HANDLERS!

Although I doubt Qantas will make the ban, (which would most likely reduce travelers in long distance and winter period.) it dawn onto me that although every countries has their own problems, their own drawbacks, the problem with Singapore- is that no one speaks out.

We’re a great place, a small one, and that makes it easer to implement changes. If we speak out and change things and in turn make our people happy, locals would stop leaving Singapore and stop complaining and basically have an even better life than we do now. (Hopefully increase our ranks in the happy index.)

Sometimes I feel that the only way that we will remain quiet, law-abidding citizens is when we are always struggling for a better life; that’s when we are completely powerless.

Day time TV

I’ve been such a stay-home housewife that I’ve been watching SO many day time tv and realise that 80% of the “issues” on day time tv, is dysfunctional marriage.

does makes it a little scary about how almost all of these couples go into the marriage in love, and how it kind of end up this way.

Though watching Trinny and Susanna show that really taking care of yourself help wins the marriage in a big way already. Growing old together, learning how to take care of that, age gracefully, and of course, love each other for it, and as years go by, instead of being more critical, it definitely has to be less critical and less critical as years go by.

Swimming in cold waters

Yesterday morning, EB was trying to kick a soft ball against our balcony glass window again and again, until.. he missed the glass and the ball went straight out of the balcony, INTO the pool downstairs!

Firstly, that was an amazing kick to go that far. Secondly, EB actually went downstairs to see if he could pick the ball out from the side of the pool. Since he couldn’t get it out, he jumped into the pool.

He came out freezing cold but seeing him jump in made me wanna take a dip too! So I got into my bikini… and jumped very cautiously into the DAMM BLOODY COLD waters!!!!!!

Unfortunately we didn’t get any photos, but it was really scary cold and I suppose this is going to be the last time we can get into our pool water since winter is approaching.

Earth Hour time!:

Us at our living room:

And some shot of Sydney which I’m growing accustomed to. I do think that it’s easier shopping in some aspects. What I mean by this, is for example, waxing for women itself, has about 6-8 dedicated shelves for a huge variety and price options. Sounds like a good thing for a girl who likes to look good.

A dose of positivity

I just planted a tree of positivity with Mount Franklin’s ‘movement’. I saw it on the bottle and decided to do my part for the environment and plant it. You can check it out here:

http://www.thewellofpositivity.com/

I certainly could use some positivity at the moment.

I’ve been running into a series of bad events lately. From losing my stack of clothes from the shipping, to colour runs on my fav garments, to have nasty counter staff, to bank problems. I miss my family and dog a lot.

Saw them on the webcam last night. It’s not the same with the fuzzing and the bad connection. With the occasional lost video. I feel so happy just seeing them though. My mum keep putting my dog, Moochie, at the camera. It just makes me smile looking at her. I miss my baby girl….

I haven’t opened a letter my sister wrote to me, for fear I’ll cry. But I decided to open it now.

She always writes, “this is not junk” in her letters to me. I just saw it in the email she wrote to me too. It’s really sweet.

The beginning of her letter:

Notice:

*This letter is not junk

*This letter is for you and me

*This letter is also the “I will miss you” letter.

At the back:

“Jie jie, is it true that you are leaving on tuesday? oh! I will super miss you!”

oh it makes me cry. 

Another pang in the heart

As I walked alone in the wispy taiwan post-winter air, I am full of anticipation. Full of hope, filled with love.

Now I am left with hollowness.. nothing but a burden of sadness.

Be back wordpress…. I’ll be back… soon. I have no heart to write now….

Last Minute Admin

Reality is really setting in. I’m leaving for Taipei tomorrow and a mere full day to be back in Singapore before leaving for Syd for a really long time.

Today, in fact, 8pm earlier, I started packing for both trips. One longer than the other and I wonder how many warm clothes I have to go around.

I am more or less packed for aussie but my luggage is REALLY heavy- it’s not including my kick ass external hard drive… I hope it doesn’t exceed but it feels like 35kg. :\ Sigh… How am I going to bring my life over…

I’m so attached to my family and my dog too. She is really like my baby.. Always cuddling up to me… It’s so painful I try not to think about it. My dad is visibly sad so I try not to mention the inevitable, that I’m leaving the Tuesday after next.

When I was busy shuttling between productions in the past, I never had much time to communicate with my family and my parens and I always had rows about how I am always devoting more time to my passion than to my family. In the past 2,3 years, I’ve been really close to my family as I spend more time home and I do feel a change in an attitude of truly leaving for another country for such a long period of time.

Now I’m in a hurry to write down all the things my family needs to know so that if they have any problems with the com or with finding some documents, they can get it.. but I’m so tired… Wondering how I can get this done…

Reasons

reasons why i will leave this place:
1. overcrowding
2. parking fines/aunties who dont give chance.
3. lack of political freedom.
4. stingy acceptance of people who dont usually fit in the norm.
5. ERP

reasons why i’ll stay:
1.family and friends and dog
2.good food.
3. paused for a long time. will update this when i think of more.