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Before I blog about the awesome date last Friday, I shall briefly run through mid-week events. The stamps for Darling’s colleagues arrived and I went down to his workplace to pass them to Darling on behalf of Daddy. Thank goodness everything was done accordingly. And on days I met up with Darling were spent lazing around at home. Boring eh? Nope. I like lazing around and doing nothing. It’s a luxury.

Friday was the date Darling promised. Since we missed out on our 29th Monthniversary celebration last weekend, Darling decided to bring on a romantic date to Keppel Island. Have heard rave reviews about it and now you shall hear them from me. The place is gorgeous! Instead of driving or cabbing in, take the short walk in. It’s even better if it’s during early mornings or evenings. No scorching sun in sight. Hate the sun.

Anyway, Darling got tickets for The Ugly Truth before dinner at Keppel Island. Was intending to dine at Prive but the menu wasn’t that appetising despite the attractive desserts they have. Decided to dine at TCC instead and head down for desserts after. The opulent ambience at TCC by the bay is a far cry from those on the mainland. The menu was slightly different too. I heart the cream of porcini. Super love the entire evening. Had major laughs with Darling. I want to go there again again again! Darling was such a sweetie for bringing me there. Let the pictures do the talking.

Been contemplating to cut my hair short for the past 2 weeks. Darling thought it would be a change since he thinks I can take different looks. And I’ve gotten sick of the monotone length. Need to snip off old hair and let new hair shine. So Emelia and I took the plunged and headed down to Aljunied to snip off our old hair. Was really nervous because I haven’t gone short in more than 2 years. Took me a painstaking 2 years for my hair to grow up to my waist. The hairdresser was shocked and slightly nervous to snip off that much hair. She’s really good though–patient and friendly. It took multiple checks and snips for us to be contented with the length and style we wanted. Eme and I settled at MCD for some girlie chat after our haircut. Enjoying my new length. Can’t wait to show Darling tomorrow when we meet.

Alright, back to school work. Dreadful!

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No pictures this week because despite having my camera in my MiuMiu all these while, I was too lazy to even start snapping pictures. Not so much of being lazy but preoccupied with all the fun I’ve been having lately. Lately, dates with Darling happened either in Our Fortress or near his area. Not a big fan of heading out too far since Darling’s caught up with school and assignments. Doesn’t really matter as long as I’m with my man. Makes me mad happy just to be hugging him or cozing up on the couch watching TV. Doing simple things or nothing with Darling makes me feel blessed in the most queer way. Perhaps age is catching up with me. Would rather be in bed with Darling than to melt under the insanely sorching sun.

Had a girlie day out with Emelia on Friday. Wore my newly altered dress I got from BonitoChico. Needed to take in quite abit at the waist but my seamstress did a really good job. BC has really pretty dresses the owners designed themselves in quality fabrics and is probably the only blogshop worth your time. Moreover, they have really good customer service unlike another popular blogshop I used to buy from. Out of the 3 times I bought from that particular blogshop, once they missed out on my order, second time they forgot about the parcel I sent back due to a faulty item and the third time, they forgot about my order until I emailed them a month later to question them about the backorder status. Even though the dresses were pretty, I don’t think I’ll be buying from them anytime soon.And because my mum’s in the apparel business, I can pretty much differentiate between quality fabrics and poly-anything.

Anyway, I headed over to Emelia’s place to help her paint her nails a deep shade of maroon before taking the train down to town. Roamed malls after malls, snacking non-stop. Wanted to surprise Darling after work with his favourite chocolate filled Dunkin Donuts but they were all sold out. *boohoohoo* So the 2 of us popped by shops after shops and chatted along the way. It’s nice having a girlfriend I can talk girlie stuff to. Darling, don’t get jealous alright? You are still my bestest bestie! *hehe* No one can replace you! *smiles*

Picked Darling up from work after the girlie date and we headed down to Bishan to meet up with MIL and RuPing for dinner. Finally bought their LCD TV. Bishan has basically nothing worth eating. Sorry, but true. Started feeling exhausted from my cold. Need to pay a visit to my TCM doctor soon. I want to get my sinus fully cured! Am even willing to try acupuncture! But I want Darling there just in case I get hysterical. *haha*

Couldn’t wake up on Saturday morning for the earlier lecture slot so slept till later with the intention to attend the later slot. But I received a text message from Emelia asking for company so I met up with her for lunch over at my place. Brought her to try my favourite bubble tea at West Coast Plaza. She had only good things to say about it. I’m loving the newly renovated WCPlaza and the hawker just opposite. They bring my whole estate to live! Used to feel really pathetic staying in the West due to the lack of good food. Not anymore. *hehe*

Class was a chore! Practically yawning away throughout the entire 3 hours. Stomach was growling and I was beginning to get grouchy from the hunger. Waited another 30 minutes for Darling to get off class. Received good news that Joel was coming to pick us up at school and driving us to The Cathay for our double movie date. *yippee!* Dined at Secret Recipe and had my usual fare of fish. Love fish! Caught Inglourious Basterds. Damn awesome movie! Brad Pitt was a genius! But Christoph Waltz was even better in portraying the Jew Hunter! Find myself wanted to murder him in so many ways. F**king good movie! Humour with a pinch of gore. Heart the gory scenes! *wahahaha* Movie was riddened with brilliant dialogues. (Check this out: http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0113048/quotes) Don’t expect historical links though. Don’t be naive and think Hilter was assassinated that way. He wasn’t.

Darling accompanied me home after the double date and waited for me as I showered and packed to get ready to NINJA over to his place. Love love love sleepovers in Our Fortress! Then it was my turn to wait for Darling to shower before we hit the sack. Blissful sleep throughout the night apart from the ridiculous dreams I was riddened with. And Darling hit my face in the middle of the night, startling me. Nudged and complained to him about his ‘abuse’. *wahaha* We fight in our sleep. *wahaha*

Crawled out of bed at 3pm the next day. Had dinner with MIL and she started telling me about Darling’s childhood. Could tell that Darling was a favoured son. Let’s just say I got the better of the 2 brothers. Sorry for the being blunt but it’s the complete truth. I’m thankful to bag a 稳重大好男人. Our future together will be damn rosy! *wahahaha* Anyway, I like having such talks with MIL. Makes me feel like I’m considered part of their family.

Had yet another romantic late night bus journey home with Darling. Love love love it! It totally slipped our minds that Sunday was Branchel’s 29th monthniversary until it was over. The very first time we actually missed our day. *hahahahaha* Goes to show dates don’t really matter as long as every moment spent together reflects enduring love. I love My Baby and am more than willing to make him part of my life. Couldn’t imagine not having him in the future.

Woke up freaking early on Monday to head over to Darling’s place to help out with the cooking. Wanted to make myself useful and make an even better impression on MIL. Got told that Darling’s uncles, aunty and cousins were coming for brunch as well. So I helped out with the vacuuming, cutting of ingredients and the frying of luncheon meat while MIL and Darling did most of the cooking. My Darling is a freaking good cook. Good is an understatement. They came, they ate, they praised and I did the dishes. MIL’s fried beehoon is the best and the only one I eat. I don’t even eat fried beehoon at all. But MIL’s fried beehoon is godly. Everyone who has tasted it has only praises for it. Spent the entire morning busy in the kitchen. Palms started to wrinkle up so I lathered them with moisturiser and continue watching my 女人我最大 videos. Many thanks to HuiPing for the links she passed to me regarding the videos and product page. I’m determined for my tofu skin to make a comeback! Darling says I’ll fair enough but I don’t think there’s anything such as too fair. I’m in the process of changing my makeup and cleansing range and have made deep cleasing a weekly MUST for clean skin. I skipped that a while ago and started breaking out like crazy. Totally killed me. Going to add whitening and hydrating masks and products slowly to my regime since I’ve got sensitive skin and would hate for it to start breaking out. I’m no longer that young and definitely to start taking care of my skin.

We nua-ed for the rest of the day. Slept throughout the entire late afternoon and woke up in the evening for TV. The long weekends just passed by in a flash. I want more long lazy weekends with Darling!

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Realised that ever since I no longer needed to make multiple trips down to Serangoon, life’s been rather relaxing. Don’t know if this is what I’m looking forward to since it meant that I need to watch what I buy now. Took up a couple of new assignments with lower pay cheques. Took comfort in not having to travel far for the assignments. Public transportation is such a chore.

Wednesday was date night with My Love. Had Japanese at Sushi Tei. Heart that place. The prawns with flamed roe is my favourite! Darling loves the squid fritters. We don’t usually dine at Japanese restaurants that often these days since Darling prefers Chinese cuisine to Japanese ones. Fine by me as long as the food we put into our mouths satisfies our tastebuds and stomachs. Nothing can be worse than an unsatisfied stomach after a meal. That’s why I’ve boycotted Sakae Sushi. Every single time I decided to give it another go, I get annoyed with myself after the meal for spending money on rubbish Japanese food. So never again will I stoop low and dine at Sakae. Unless someone pays me good money to. *yikes* Got tickets for The Proposal. Movie was better than expected. Couldn’t stop laughing at certain parts. But then again, Darling always comments that it doesn’t take much to tickle me. *haha* Didn’t realised Ryan Renolds was actually rather good looking. Men with dark hair, tall physique and broad shoulders usually look good.

Had a lengthy project meeting on Thursday. Group mates turning up hours late ruined my plans for the day, which in turn resulted in angst. Rushed down to Kallang for a little girlie hanging out session with Emelia. Have been bonding with her ever since our boys fixed that triple date some time back. It’s nice having some girlie time sometimes. We talked as I painted her nails a midnight blue. Shared makeup secrets and even stalked Darling on Facebook. Nope, I don’t have a FB account and will not succumb to the ‘need’ to have one. Stalked Darling’s FB using Emelia’s account. *heh heh heh* Much fun. Raced down to Darling’s place for a short meet up. Things took a turn for the bad and I ended up bawling my eyes out. *sigh* Quarrelled with Darling. But me crying like a poor kitten melted Darling’s heart and all was well when I left. Cabbed back home with melted makeup,  swollen eyes and messed-up hair, hoping no one was waiting for me at the door. Darling called and we had a long talk through the night. Felt astonishingly merry that night despite the bawling earlier on. I know I’m really blessed to have Darling in my life. I live a life filled with love. I’m doted on every day. I wake up every single day knowing I won’t be growing old alone; BB’s going to be my life-long partner.

And since I slept late the night before, I was late in meeting Emelia the next afternoon at Toa Payoh. Accompanied her for a blood test (NO! It’s not what you guys think it is! Siao!) since she has an extreme fear of needles and syringes. Was a good girl because I kept my promise to Darling and took my lunch. Headed down to ION for another session of window-shopping in The Maze. The place’s madness. I can never find my way around despite a number of trips there. Have only managed to master the basement shops. Need Darling to be with me if I don’t want to get lost.

The weekends were spent in Our Fortress. Pure relaxation: eat, sleep, TV. I kind of like spending the weekends at Our Fortress and away from the crowd. Did mask, pedicure and feet massage for Darling. Think it’s the little things like these that Darling loves. Will do this weekly if Darling allows me.

Some random pictures. Took the present Darling got me for my 21st apart and changed it into a charm for my necklace. It felt special wearing the heart-shaped garnet crystal (my birth stone) on my neck since it was the first present Darling gave me when we had dinner together for the first time. My Marc Jacobs necklace is in my ‘museum’. *hehe* Don’t dare to get it plated again just in case it breaks apart. I will die if that happens. Well, almost die. *haha* Got that BBQ chicken from Shop N Save. And surprisingly, it tasted really good! Juicy and meaty.

So that’s all from last week. It’s going to be even more ‘boring’ this week since Darling’s plagued with countless assignments & projects. Fine with me as long as I get the occasional hugs and kisses. Another nua-ing weekends. I love. *Yippee!*

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Since I haven’t updated for more than 2 weeks, I’ve done picture collages to cramp all the pictures taken during the past dates. So a short post.

When I thought we couldn’t meet up for dinner on the night of our 28th monthniversary, Darling called to say he wasn’t going for lecture and asked if I could meet up with him for dinner. *whooppee!* So I shifted my night tutoring to an earlier slot before dashing down to Vivocity. It puts a smile on my face to see Darling smiling back at me. Decided to dine at Asian Kitchen. Was utterly famished so we got snacks from Old Chang Kee and sat waiting for our dishes to be served. My favourite fried rice was such a disappointment. The one served at Raffles City had lak jiong in it but this had none! *sad* The fat prawns they gave didn’t even redeem the fact that lak jiongs were missing. Ordered fish slices and our favourite stir-fry dou miao. The fish slices were an instant favourite with me! Major yum! And since they only serve braised duck slices instead of the usual roasted duck meat, we ordered a plate to try. It was one of the best duck meat ever. It’s boneless too! I hate it when duck meat is served with bones. Unless it’s duck neck. Every dish was good apart from the disappointing fried rice.

Went to look for some SL while Darling stood in a corner entertaining himself with the games on his mobile phone. Thrilled with my purchase! We chilled out at Pacific Coffee and the hazelnut latte gave me a sleepless night. I’m quitting caffine for real. It’s been 3 weeks since I last had coffee. Been shopping for tea since. Got some flower tea from Muji and Darling bought me rosehip and hibiscus teabags. *muak muak* Realised sipping decaffinated tea nightly gives me good sleep. Say goodbye to insomnia. *yay!*

Met up with Emelia to continue blinging our phones. Spent a bomb on getting the swarovski crystals but the total cost spent on them was much cheaper than getting someone else to do it. *haha* The boys joint us at Starbucks after their work. Had dinner at Lau Pa Sat afterwards. Been going on alot of double dates with Emelia and Joel and it has always been mad fun. Enjoying hanging out with them. Can’t wait for the girlie date with Emelia this coming Thursday.

Sunday was another dinner date with Jomelia near our boys’ homes–Buddy Hoagies. Chilled with them for awhile before Darling and I popped by at MCD for supper and EPL match. *smiles*

Caught Coco Before Chanel and Final Destination 4 that week with Darling. Both movies were alright.

Since Darling didn’t had time for me on a particular Saturday, Emelia and I hung out at ION after GM lecture. Had the best fishball soup at the foodcourt, accompanied with glorious D24 durian stuffed odeh odeh. Major yum! Went mad at Muji and got plenty of snacks for Darl Darl and teabags for myself. I continue searching for that shoe shop after Emelia left on a date with Joel. Finally located it and got my lovely flats. Headed home for dinner and sulked alone with my tea and Kettle chips. Lonely Saturday. *pout*

Last week, Darling was in the mood for buffet at our 老地方(the place we had our very first dinner at). So I changed out of my boring dress into something more dressy for our date. Uber looking forward to it since we’ve been having lesser time for proper dates. *pout* Picked Darling up from work and we walked all the way to Chinatown to take bus to our 老地方. Food wasn’t the best (definitely not horrible) but love going back to reminiscene the initial stages of Branchel. *haha* Took a romantic walk along Clarke Quay after having our fill. Stopped by Meidiya to pick up some snacks. Terrific date. *smiles*

Had dinner at Crystal Jade Kitchen at Holland V after Darling’s long lecture last Saturday. Rejected going out with Jomelia and SBR becaused Darling was some alone time with me. *甜甜的约会* I heart CJK’s porridges! They do Canto-style porridges to perfection. In the usual BB style, he just had to order more food. Ordered half a roast chicken and some glutinous rice balls stuffed with yam paste. The rice balls tasted better with every bite. The glutton in me might just get some whenever I pass by a CJK restaurant. *haha*

Took a long long stroll all the way to Queenstown. Laughed like mad at each other’s antics. Camwhored while waiting for bus home to my place. Let the pictures do the talking.

Wanted to just stay in Our Fortress last Sunday but had to have dinner with PIL, SBR and Huiping. Dragged myself out of bed in the wee hours because I wanted to maximise my Sunday with Darling. It was raining dinosaurs and mammoth but I rushed out of house to meet him at Khatib. Darling proposed having MCD breakfast. And guess who we bumped into? Mr Joel Tan! He skipped Church and needed company so he invited himself to join us for breakfast. *wahahaha* Love having early breakfast with BB. Makes up for the lack of sleep and puts a huge smile on my face. Chatted for almost 2 hours before we went separate ways.

Had intended to pamper Darling with a satisfying long massage but we slept through the afternoon in the comfort of our bed. *woohoo* Rainy day plus comfy bed equals ultra satisfying godly sleep. Woke up by phone calls from SBR. Time to head out for dinner so I rushed through a head and feet massage for Darling. Intending to make up for it this week.

Had a steamboat dinner at Bugis. Lousy. Over my dead body if anyone wants me to go back there. Yikes. Caught up with Huiping. Never seen her ever since SBR got enlisted. Had usual girl talks on the latest skincare craze and what not. I’m switching my skincare and makeup products to Korean and Japanese brands soon since they suit Asian skin better. Darling sent me home at the end of the day. He’s been doing that lately. Sweetie.

Met up for a simple dinner at VivoCity on Monday. Chilled out at Pacific Coffee after that and Darling started doodling on my planner. He suggested we write out ‘concrete plans’ for our future. *haha* Camwhored for abit.  And since I forgot my trusty cardigan, I was shivering cold the whole while. Did some supermarketing before heading home early.

Seeing Darling tomorrow and I can hardly wait. Tuesdays are always horrid. Wish I could wrap my arms around Darling, snuggle into his chest and let all woes be washed away momentarily. He’s the reason I smile and laugh. Last weekend was one of the best times together–feasting and resting. Can’t wait to see what tomorrow will bring. I love my Mr Marshmallow Lips. *muak!*