Peace & Quiet

It's been a week since they've left. It's been a long time since we had full freedom and privacy in our own house, more than one year in fact. The house is clean and quiet once more!

Chunky Chunk Fest

My Goddess had an exciting weekend just this week.

First on Saturday, she and her bff, Chewy went to have a free hair makeover, with compliments from Her World and Redken!

Okay, perhaps it wasn't totally complimentary. My Goddess had to take a cab down to the venue cos she was late. And the reason? She wanted to take the train via Bukit Batok then Jurong East and onto the East bound train. My Goddess hardly takes the train, and just this day that she decides to take the train, the MRT interchange at Jurong East just has to be under construction (!) And so she had to spend another 20 minutes on the shuttle bus from Jurong East to Clementi. By then she knew she will be late, and so took a cab down which costs her $16!! So actually the hair makeover actually is not free, but costs $16 :(

In a rush, my Goddess also didn't have much chance to take the before and after pics. I guess you should already know her messy before pic already anyway.

Hair being worked on and
looking like a poodle

Here's the after picture - more curls
(which the Horny Devil doesn't like)

After which, my Goddess, her bff and the Horny Devil headed down to Ben & Jerry's Chunkfest! My Goddess has always wanted to go down to the event each year but didn't do so in the end. This year, she finally made it! Unfortunately, there wasn't any free ice-cream giveaways. Only Moolah dollars for you to redeem B&J's goodies.

The event was really colourful and fun, and they had a good time taking crazy pics.

They bought 3 scoops of ice-cream to share - some maple flavour one, one is peacon and the last vanilla health bar.

It all looks the same from here

And here's how the Moolah looks like - damn cute

The ice-cream was fantastic, the setup was great. There were mats laid all over for people to sit around and enjoy the band performances. The bands weren't great unfortunately, but the ice-creams, great photo ops and fabulous company made up for it.

And yes, they love ice-cream and so do I!

Then on Sunday, my Goddess and the Horny Devil went for a marriage preparation seminar organised by SPH and MarriageCentral. Although topics covered were things that were already known, it surfaced the topics to the top of mind and there were some form of self-actualization in some ways.

For example, listening before talking, never use divorce in your arguments, respecting the difference between men and women, budgeting your finances, coming together to decide the spending ceiling to consult each other etc.

But some interesting things that were brought to light to my Goddess were, M actually decreases pleasure of S because the grip and hence sensual pleasure is different. And lubricants kill sperms, so if you are trying to conceive, do not use them.

The participants were also given a very useful guidebook which have several chapters covering the different areas of contention you will encounter with your spouse. There are what to do and not to dos, and pages of which you pledge your commitment in certain areas to each other.

Some good points include:

• Marriage only works when you don't expect the moon and stars to shine brightly all the time. Unnecessary expectations put unnecessarily strain on r/s.
• If you marry a sunflower, don't expect it to smell like a rose. Trying to change your spouse to suit you will only end up in great despair and frustration.
• Don't be frustrated if your spouse doesn't respond in the same way as you. Remember that his or her uniqueness is what attracted you in the first place.

These are really relevant and true points which we neglect all the time. Guess my Goddess will keep the guidebook with her, read it on and off, so as to keep the marriage (to-be) going. Along the way, if she reads some interesting points and have time to share with me, I will share them with you too.

Here's me/the Horny Devil signing off on a lighter note.

Peace!

And when the Bands go Marching in!!

Last Saturday on 28 August, my Goddess and the Horny Devil finally collected their wedding bands!

In the end, they stuck to engraving the words "De corde totaliter, Et ex mente tota", each phrase on each band. It is actually a latin word meaning - with all my heart and all my soul. This serves as a little reminder to the both of them they have to love each other truly, no matter what happens, for better or for worse.

Don't ask me where my Goddess is looking.
She was looking at the camera lens, but apparently
that's not centralised.

Wanted to take a super zoom in shot of the ring, but they still haven't mastered how to use the new cam.

Totally excited

In the evening, they met up with their friends for dinner at Tambuah Mas. My Goddess was extremely full from the dinner which had curry fish head, satay, sambal kangkong, Tahu Telor and ice chendol for dessert..slurps~

Too bad my greedy Goddess was busy eating to take pictures of the food.

After dinner, they headed to Prime Society at Dempsey for some Tiger Beer milkshake.

The milkshake tasted really good. Once you first drink it, it's just taste of sweetness of milk. But after you drink it down, the taste of Tiger beer comes out strongly.

But my Goddess and the Horny Devil were too full to drink a glass of milkshake, so they had something else instead.

Bloody shame - a sister drink of Bloody Mary
without the alcohol

And my Goddess had a lychee tea
which was mixed with rum and mint leaves.
Tasted pretty similar to lychee mojito

That day was a really good day for my Goddess.. She thoroughly enjoyed herself. Can't wait for the coming weekend to arrive, as she has some exciting plans in store. Do stay tune to find out more!

Things Happen When You Least Expect It

My Goddess has been trying to lose weight for a few months by running rigourously and eating less carbo, more vege, not eating after 8 etc but was unsuccessful. So she kinda gave up, started to eat more fast food, exercise 1 day less per week and ate after 10. And guess what she lost 2kg!

Sometimes you just can't have any expectations lest you become disappointed. You'll feel much happier when you do things without expecting much returns so that in the end you can be pleasantly surprised!

First Atas Charity Dinner

One of the charity clubs that my Goddess' company donates too had a Charity Dinner on Thusday night. It was held at the ever-so-grand Shangri-la Hotel Ballroom. This was the first time my Goddess and the Horny Devil went there for a meal.

The ballroom was indeed very grand with its chandelier lights and detailed carvings on the ceiling.

Yummy raisin cookies doorgift

The food was good too! With an 8-course Chinese dinner meal, they were really full at the end of the meal.

Appetiser

There was also loads of live entertainment, from fashion show to live band, acapella and jazz performance.

They even had on-the-spot photographer made into 2011 calendar!

New Collection, New Sale

Oh shit! I forgot to advertise for my Goddess that Paper Polly's new collection was launched (like a week ago) and there's a End of Season Sale going on now!

Do go support her, check it out and buy something from her ok! (If not I'll bite you!)

Visit http://paperpolly.wordpress.com/ now!!

Banana Muffin, Wedding Prep and JC girls meet-up

And true to what my Goddess said in her last post that she's going to try the banana muffin and try the next day she did!

The banana muffin was really good! There were even chunks of banana inside the muffin itself.

Anyway, my Goddess is loving her and the Horny Devil's new camera, and so am I! The quality of the pictures are just superb!

On 21 Aug, my Goddess and the Horny Devil did their wedding prep again, this time in search of bridesmaid dress tailor at Far East Plaza.

Before the shopping, it was lea break (lunch & tea) at a Hong Kong cafe.

The Horny Devil doing some readings
while my Goddess went to order the food

See what I mean by the superb quality of the camera? The food just turned out so perfect and mouth-watering.

XO carrot cake

Super oily Bosch Soup

After checking out two shops, my Goddess is more or less confirmed with going to Love Potion for they have really good quality and design. Unless her sisters refuses to pay for half of the cost of the dresses :P

In the evening, it was a meet-up with her JC girlfriends to celebrate Lover's birthday and have a catch-up with everyone.

Dessert at Dessert Story

During the meet-up they talked about how one of the college mates one of them met recently was pretty good looking during JC days, but now, unfortunately looked much older and worse than their age. And so they were all so relieved that they still looked the same, in fact, better than before. Don't you agree?

To end the night off, how can they forget to take pictures in the ladies - what they always do since JC days.

 

Yummy Muffins!

Just last week, my Goddess saw an a post by GoodStuph on Facebook - Muffins for Bloggers! 

Being the auntie Ching she is, she decided since she blogs, and it doesn't matter the readership figures as long as the blogger blogs, why not try the muffins? Anyway the only thing she needs to register with GoodStuph. Besides the muffins looked really yummy on the website!!

The one with the red cherry looks especially good! And submitted the entry she did.

And just last Wednesday, she went to pick up her free muffins from Muffinman! What a cute name.

The store was really bright and cheery too.. makes you feel like buying more muffins!

Look at the rows of muffins! Slurps~

It's the cherry one that my Goddess wanna try!

Little hearts - so cute!

There were like 101 flavours to choose from. My Goddess couldn't make up her mind. So in the end she got a Lemon Raspberry, a Mango Custard, one Triple Chocolate and one Rum & Raisin.

The same night, my Goddess took her new Canon camera to have a shot shooting the pretty muffins.

Using colour select

Another shot at colour select - fun~

Macro shot at Lemon Rasberry

Triple chocolate

Rum & Raisin

Mango Custard

The next morn, my Goddess took one of the muffins to work for breakfast.

And it was really good! Normally, my Goddess is not a big fan of muffins as they can get really 'gelard'. But the muffin from MuffinMan was light, not oily at all. There were bits of creamy cheese/rum within the muffin. Can you see it?

Okay, maybe her hp cam isn't so good to capture the 'wetness' of the muffins, so here's pointing out to you where it is.

And my Goddess finished up the whole muffin, wanting for more!

Unfortunately my Goddess didn't have the chance to try the Chef's recommendation - Triple Chocolate. The Mango Custard was so-so to her, probably cos it was like 2 days later then she consumed that muffin, so the custard was not oozing out of the muffin like in the picture.

The lemon raspberry was cute to eat cos of the bright red hearts and yellow cream. But she still loved the Rum & Raisin one the best!

There are so many other flavours that my Goddess would love to try:

Longan Wolfberry? That sounds so healthy! Can have a few more servings!

White Chocolate Banana. My Goddess will go bananas on this!

Black & White Chocolate - this looks really pretty

Triple Chocolate - the one my Goddess didn't get to try

Mint Chocolate

And of course the Mint Chocolate! The really pretty one that is seen in the picture!

Since this muffin shop is so near the family's cafe. I think my Goddess will visit the shop ever so often to try the different flavours each day!

Wait wait! That's not all! They've given my Goddess a 1-for-1 voucher to share with you.

Go print it, buy it and eat it! I swear that this tastes so much better than my munchie treats!