Hello people! I'm back from the void! Well not really. I've been kinda busy with lotsa stuffs recently. Work is gaining pace. Learnt some new StarCraft strategies. Kicked some asses but sometimes got my own ass handed back to me. Well work = play and play = work.
But that's not all I've been busy with the entire month. Well last week was Sally's birthday. Roughly a month ago, I started wondering what we could do to make it a memorable celebration. But as usual all the boring ideas came about, so I decided to think reaaaaally hard about what she likes. Well handbags or those fashion shoes are Girls' Best Friends but for some reasons, I think generally guys just can't tell the difference between a good and bad handbag (or shoes). Maybe it's my problem :P but to think about it, those are really boring stuffs too.
Then I suddenly remembered walking with her past some jewelery shop and she seem keen on those sinful shiny stones. Well.. Hmm.. Maybe this is it. Girls like shiny stuffs, ain't? But buying diamonds and wrapping them up nicely, then presenting it as a birthday gift is boring as hell too. So what we really need is to add a lil' bit of twist into the whole action ;) sounds like an ultimate evil!
First, research on diamonds. This is absolutely essential so that I won't get scammed by those sales attendants. And I gotta find out more to understand my side of the bargain and whether the price I'm paying is worth it. Also I can act like a pro when I go shop for diamonds :P It's no easy task but sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta do. Actually I could have just brought a friend who knows all about diamonds to help me out, but for such a delicate job, who else can I trust but myself? LOL spoken like a true evil mastermind. Anyway...
For a few nights I read up on diamonds and the different brands in the market. When Sally called I just told her that I'm busy playing games :P and she didn't suspect anything. Yey. Sometimes you gotta resort to such evil trickery. I guess I can't recycle this technique anymore but let's worry about that later. Muahaha :D:D
Ok, so on a Wednesday night after work, the evil side of me lied to her saying I'd be staying late for work. Oops. Then I went shopping for diamonds like a dirty rich man. Well not exactly shopping-spree kinda shopping, but careful and selective-kind of shopping LOL. So this sales attendant @ SooKee came to me and I asked to look at their range of earrings. She looked at me for a moment then brought me some very childish earring samples. WTF.
"Nono, not these kind. Do you have like.. better ones?" :-/ Nabeh. Maybe I looked like a noob.
LOL. Fortunately she got the hint and apologized, then she brought me to one corner and showed me their range of Brilliant Rose diamond earrings. Yeah! Now that's what I'm talking about! Shiny!
The cut of ultimate brilliance!
Woooo..
Actually I'm kinda impressed with the earrings myself. But unfortunately, my lame camera couldn't capture it's brilliant sparkle in real life. Still looks quite good though! :D Ah, satisfied. But that's not all. It's only part of the plan ;D This is suppose to be a big surprise so I need to add abit of smoke.
So I went to this shop to order a bouquet of flowers. On the morning of Sally's birthday, I collected them and went all the way to Choa Chu Kang. Well this is the second time I'm doing this so... it's all good, except that the experience was slightly different. Heh. On my way, I saw this guy and his kid. The kid was crying for some reasons and his dad was obviously trying in vain to calm him down. Then when he saw me, he told his kid "Look! Look! Nice flowers. Veeeeeery nice flowers".
The kid cried even louder.
:-/
Duh. Of course. Kids don't appreciate flowers. They like Power Rangers.
Then came another awkward moment. This old lady standing beside me was staring at my roses. As in... really staring at them with very big eyes. It was a really hungry look and at times I thought that she was going to eat them up. Sigh. I should have told her that flowers aren't very nutritious and they are kinda expensive to be eaten. Weird huh?
Anyway, more importantly the roses reached Sally safely and as planned (or just my assumption), she thought that those were her birthday gift :D
Deja vu
After hanging around for a while, we came over to my place. We were talking about some stuffs when I suddenly said...
"Eh, my pillow ah. Kinda uncomfortable. Recently sleep already ah, got headache leh"
"Huh? Then change pillow lah", she replied coldly. Damn. Never mind, try again.
"No leh, you try to see the pillow. Think something wrong leh" :P Think I can be an actor!
Then she replied the same thing saying that if the pillow is uncomfortable, I should just get a new one. Problem solved. Actually that wasn't the problem because I hid the diamonds under my pillow hoping that she'd go and find out herself. Who knows she can be so reluctant to check out her poor boyfriend's pillow :P Since I had no backup plan, I continued to nag her until she finally gave up, sighed and went to pat my pillow. LOL.
What happened next was totally out of my expectations. When she felt that there was something underneath the pillow and took it out... there was a moment of silence for like 2 seconds. Maybe that's when she realized that those are real shiny hardcore diamonds inside and it's not a dream. Then I got a really big hug from her and it's all tears of joy. Awww.. Mission accomplished ;) She said I was really corny but who cares ;) The winner is still me :D
And the best thing is, this wasn't the end of our celebration! We celebrated the other half in Bintan Lagoon Resort. Extremely enjoyable, relaxing and full of sinful fatty food! It was a 3 days and 2 nights trip. Here are some photos of the stuffs that we did there. Woo hoo!
A mushy kiss for the birthday girl ;)
Seaview from our room
The swimming pool
The beach is just so peaceful and beautiful!
Yeah that's us!
Interesting stuffs that crabs do on the island
This is even more interesting ;)
One of our buffet breakfasts ;) Yummy!
There are a few hundred more photos and I think it'll take about 2 years to upload everything :D So if in any case you're interested, just get them directly from me or Sally ;)
Next Wednesday will be our first anniversary. Time really flies! By then, we'll take a step back and look at all the things that we've experienced together as a couple. And I bet it'll be really interesting. All the fun. All the fights.
Stay tuned!
Love ya Sally!
But that's not all I've been busy with the entire month. Well last week was Sally's birthday. Roughly a month ago, I started wondering what we could do to make it a memorable celebration. But as usual all the boring ideas came about, so I decided to think reaaaaally hard about what she likes. Well handbags or those fashion shoes are Girls' Best Friends but for some reasons, I think generally guys just can't tell the difference between a good and bad handbag (or shoes). Maybe it's my problem :P but to think about it, those are really boring stuffs too.
Then I suddenly remembered walking with her past some jewelery shop and she seem keen on those sinful shiny stones. Well.. Hmm.. Maybe this is it. Girls like shiny stuffs, ain't? But buying diamonds and wrapping them up nicely, then presenting it as a birthday gift is boring as hell too. So what we really need is to add a lil' bit of twist into the whole action ;) sounds like an ultimate evil!
First, research on diamonds. This is absolutely essential so that I won't get scammed by those sales attendants. And I gotta find out more to understand my side of the bargain and whether the price I'm paying is worth it. Also I can act like a pro when I go shop for diamonds :P It's no easy task but sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta do. Actually I could have just brought a friend who knows all about diamonds to help me out, but for such a delicate job, who else can I trust but myself? LOL spoken like a true evil mastermind. Anyway...
For a few nights I read up on diamonds and the different brands in the market. When Sally called I just told her that I'm busy playing games :P and she didn't suspect anything. Yey. Sometimes you gotta resort to such evil trickery. I guess I can't recycle this technique anymore but let's worry about that later. Muahaha :D:D
Ok, so on a Wednesday night after work, the evil side of me lied to her saying I'd be staying late for work. Oops. Then I went shopping for diamonds like a dirty rich man. Well not exactly shopping-spree kinda shopping, but careful and selective-kind of shopping LOL. So this sales attendant @ SooKee came to me and I asked to look at their range of earrings. She looked at me for a moment then brought me some very childish earring samples. WTF.
"Nono, not these kind. Do you have like.. better ones?" :-/ Nabeh. Maybe I looked like a noob.
LOL. Fortunately she got the hint and apologized, then she brought me to one corner and showed me their range of Brilliant Rose diamond earrings. Yeah! Now that's what I'm talking about! Shiny!
Actually I'm kinda impressed with the earrings myself. But unfortunately, my lame camera couldn't capture it's brilliant sparkle in real life. Still looks quite good though! :D Ah, satisfied. But that's not all. It's only part of the plan ;D This is suppose to be a big surprise so I need to add abit of smoke.
So I went to this shop to order a bouquet of flowers. On the morning of Sally's birthday, I collected them and went all the way to Choa Chu Kang. Well this is the second time I'm doing this so... it's all good, except that the experience was slightly different. Heh. On my way, I saw this guy and his kid. The kid was crying for some reasons and his dad was obviously trying in vain to calm him down. Then when he saw me, he told his kid "Look! Look! Nice flowers. Veeeeeery nice flowers".
The kid cried even louder.
:-/
Duh. Of course. Kids don't appreciate flowers. They like Power Rangers.
Then came another awkward moment. This old lady standing beside me was staring at my roses. As in... really staring at them with very big eyes. It was a really hungry look and at times I thought that she was going to eat them up. Sigh. I should have told her that flowers aren't very nutritious and they are kinda expensive to be eaten. Weird huh?
Anyway, more importantly the roses reached Sally safely and as planned (or just my assumption), she thought that those were her birthday gift :D
After hanging around for a while, we came over to my place. We were talking about some stuffs when I suddenly said...
"Eh, my pillow ah. Kinda uncomfortable. Recently sleep already ah, got headache leh"
"Huh? Then change pillow lah", she replied coldly. Damn. Never mind, try again.
"No leh, you try to see the pillow. Think something wrong leh" :P Think I can be an actor!
Then she replied the same thing saying that if the pillow is uncomfortable, I should just get a new one. Problem solved. Actually that wasn't the problem because I hid the diamonds under my pillow hoping that she'd go and find out herself. Who knows she can be so reluctant to check out her poor boyfriend's pillow :P Since I had no backup plan, I continued to nag her until she finally gave up, sighed and went to pat my pillow. LOL.
What happened next was totally out of my expectations. When she felt that there was something underneath the pillow and took it out... there was a moment of silence for like 2 seconds. Maybe that's when she realized that those are real shiny hardcore diamonds inside and it's not a dream. Then I got a really big hug from her and it's all tears of joy. Awww.. Mission accomplished ;) She said I was really corny but who cares ;) The winner is still me :D
And the best thing is, this wasn't the end of our celebration! We celebrated the other half in Bintan Lagoon Resort. Extremely enjoyable, relaxing and full of sinful fatty food! It was a 3 days and 2 nights trip. Here are some photos of the stuffs that we did there. Woo hoo!
There are a few hundred more photos and I think it'll take about 2 years to upload everything :D So if in any case you're interested, just get them directly from me or Sally ;)
Next Wednesday will be our first anniversary. Time really flies! By then, we'll take a step back and look at all the things that we've experienced together as a couple. And I bet it'll be really interesting. All the fun. All the fights.
Stay tuned!
Love ya Sally!
I would have been very happy with just the roses. Besides for what you have gone thru on your way here (unappreciative kid and hungry old lady -> laughed till I twisted my stomach!) it makes the bunch of roses even more valuable. As the humankind like to say, it’s really the thought that counts. Btw I chose to read the trials and tribulations via blog instead of you just saying because I know you will definitely use your Word Warrior skills to describe the story that will really make it really interesting.
But being the always sincere, going that extra mile kinda guy (all readers out there should know by now, if not, go back to the first entry and read all over again!), u must have thought that the real roses can’t really last very long and therefore decided to give me a pair of Roses that I can keep ‘forever’. Lovely! :):) Actually when u asked me to check the pillows, I didn’t think much about it because you were seldom so whiney about things so shouldn’t be something serious. Come to think of it, hmmm I should show more concern since you seldom complain about things… ahhhh! What was I thinking then? Frankly, I had always thought I will get my own pair of diamond studs. So it was really pure joy and happiness that I got them as a gift and from my wonderful boyfriend at that! Double Lovely!
Well, as instructed I’ll only start wearing those *sparkling* rocks on our 1st year anniversary. Can’t wait already!
The Bintan trip was really wonderful too. Went to the beach, had sinful breakfasts and dinners, went swimming, saw a monitor lizard swimming in the pool, running in the rain (o this is sweet). Even alone times for me (while u were sleeping) like reading at the balcony was really great too. I think it’s just the mood that was surrounding me that time, happy, relaxed, lucky, and all the rest of the positive adjectives. Really felt like it’s my birthday the entire trip because you kept giving me birthday wishes, Haha! My most memorable birthday so far and a good end to my 20s life :) Gonna start my 30s soon… wooh time really flies!
Thank you darling, for making everything positive in my life. Love ya forever! :D
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