Internet connection!

Ahuh!!! Finally got internet access at home...

I haven't blogged for a week, not in here, but I've been having good number of updates in the TeaRoom blog. "Business" has been quite good lately and that equals to less sleep, no gym and litmited time to blog in here. It's all worth it I am sure, and consider me being really lucky because I've been given so much room for creativity, so called, for the recent orders and I had been able to indulge in a lot of fun preparing the deliveries.

A lot of people was very excited that I've got an order for the Chanel 2.55. So was I. 10 hours of decorating, sleeping at 4.30am in the morning was quite worth it. Surprisingly the feedback was good from the birthday girl although I know there are a lot of improvements to be made, IF only I have another Chanel order. Haha...

This might sound like the Grammy Awards but I really want to thank friends for supporting operation TeaRoom. KG herself ordered a box of cupcake and didn't mind paying a premium for the decorations. Tony also ordered 2 boxes in a week, one of which was for his corporate client. I also have a customer who was more confident in me than me in delivering surprises in cake decorations. And Nick so far has ordered 2 cakes for his launch do and planning to order more. MFG has also been a real good "agent" for TeaRoom it makes me feel bad because I am not at all able to be his "agent" in promoting his business. :p

Baked some cupcakes just now for Saturday delivery and decided to take a break. Will continue decorations tomorrow. I am still planning to publish another post on my birthday present, yeah, just got another one from KG today, so cute!

And my own birthday present, cum reward for hard work... It was on sale :)

Hang in there...

It's only another two and a half hour time to go... LP told me the same just now, when it was 3 hours more to go.

I'm sooo... sleepy. I looked at myself just now in the toilet mirror and I do look like a zombie, no wonder I'm feeling very much like one.

Went to dinner with office mates last night and since I've just confirmed another box of cupcake order from Tony, I thought I'd better complete that box of cupcake due for collection tonight. So I slept at 1am. I've also just confirm another box of birthday cupcake for Friday. Okay... I've been planning to give something to the Friday birthday boy, but I was contemplating between BUYING a present and baking a box of cupcake. So it's destined. Cupcake it is.

Another alarming problem is my waistline. And of course the other parts also lah. I look rounder and blotted in the pictures I took last night. N.O.T. G.O.O.D!!! I guess I better plan in like early morning gym session since I won't be able to make it to gym these evenings. Next week is another extremely busy week! (and I don't mean at work, it's the cake biz).

There are still a few pictures and stories to tell about my birthday and birthday gifts. Hehe... yeah, still feel like talking about my birthday. Meanwhile, I've been spending more time in my TeaRoom blog than this one. Prioritizing business. Very tiring but it's very rewarding. The best reward among all is when you get positive feedback from the customers, very encouraging.

And for these few days, no internet connection at home due to modem malfunction - confirmed by TM's technicians after checking for 3 times. THEY BETTER BE RIGHT ABOUT THIS. Will get a new modem when BIL is back this Sunday. Yeah, BIL finally back from Australia this Sunday. Miss that kid.

And according to MC's last check up, IF the screen was showing all that it needed to show, I'm expecting a niece. :)

Change of lifestyle

I haven't been to the gym for a long time... I did go once last week on Saturday but only for an hour of "casual" workout. My last RPM and Pump class was about 2 weeks ago. Won't be able to go to gym this week because I've got deliveries on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. I'll try to drop in at gym during the weekend. Next week will be another busy week, I've got Monday, Wednesday, Thursday (Chanel handbag!!) and Friday. I've got MC and BIL's birthday celebration cake on Saturday.

And that's end of July already. Geezz... time flies.

I remember a few weeks back, I planned to resign in July, open TeaRoom in October. Hmm... I'm still with my full time job and looks like I'll be here for a while - hopefully not TOO long. I really long for a full time cafe and baking job and switch my current baking time back to gym/ hangout/ rest time. I used to go to gym 5 to 6 times a week for average of 2 classes every time. Now I don't even go to gym 5 times in a month sometimes.

I feel like I've aged a lot lately.

How I wish I have a job with working hours I can decide myself. A job that allows me to go around more perhaps, and meet more people. I find my current job too desk-bound. Good and bad of course - best about this is I can attend to emails, instant chats straight away, and perhaps slot in some paper work for TeaRoom. Worst of all is I am too bored with desk-bound.

I need a change.

Blur

Have I not blogged for so long? LGM asking me why no updates a few days ago. Okay, here's the excuse, I mean reason... I have been having this problem with my right eye... there was this persist redness and I couldn't wear my lenses. I have been wearing glasses for about a week, did not go to gym since last week and had this headache due to prolonged wearing of my glasses. I had visited the doctor two times and the advice was take a lot of rest, I've even got myself an MC last Wednesday, but too bad I still had to go to work in the morning...

The second time I went to the clinic, Doc gave me stronger medication. The result was I was a bit blur at times. Besides being mentally blur, my vision was also blur most of the time. You see, I've been wearing contact lenses since I was form 3 so I've not had blur vision unless I'm at home. The passed one week I've been walking in the office without glasses and images were blur. I took off my glasses during lunch and further things around me have been blur too. I even tried driving short distance (it was really really congested and I had a headache I couldn't stand) without glasses. It was a different experience - unsecured because I couldn't see clearly but at the same time felt relieved because it wasn't so scary after all going around even though I don't have a perfect eye sight.

The other thing was about wearing glasses itself.

Since I've not been wearing glasses, only close family members have been seeing me with my glasses. The first day I wore glasses and went out to the "public", I was a bit conscious, like worried that people might laugh at me wearing glasses, or I might look weird. Then after a while, I realized that no one actually noticed me wearing glasses. Haha... Sometimes we are so conscious and worried about certain things that it seems really silly because it's simply just such small matter that doesn't concern anyone else but yourself. And most of the time, we assume how and what other people think of us but all those assumptions often are wrong.

So... I'm back to lenses now, but need to try shorten the time of wearing lens.

Still feel like talking about my birthday celebrations...

Had such great birthday celebration this year... my latest celebration was the pizza birthday cake surprise. Hee... It was really fun!!

Surprisingly to me, MFG had dinner with me on my birthday, the actual day. Though he was not the one who'd organized, he had sent my skype instant message to ask me to dinner, and also text me to confirm time and place although the other organizer had asked and confirmed everything... though he was not the only one at the dinner, it's surprising enough for me that I even had him at dinner.

You know what I mean?

I remembering asking the girls when I was wondering out loud after my birthday eve dinner, whether if MFG had realized that I was requesting for a birthday present, and whether he would be getting me a present.

He did! Both of us arrived first and I thought I might as well open the present and find out how "cool" the mouse is. Even MFG commented when I was opening the present wrapper that "should be something expected right?". Well, yeah, but I want to see the selected "model".

I think guys will always go for function when you ask for "cool" stuff. To some of us girls, cool will normally be associated with the looks. Haha... so here it is the superlaser mouse with very cool function. MFG said he would have gotten me something more funky if he could find. Ohh... he remembered my "specifications". So something funky would have suit my personality is it? Hehe...

I later found out that the lights on the mouse actually changes colour from light blue to dark blue, to red, purple, green.... MFG's response to my text message on this "discovery" was "it's cool after all". Hee... yeah. Super cool!

And yes, I did get my birthday kiss and hug too.

Must also thank my colleague for initiating the dinner. Or... I actually don't know who initiated the dinner.

Surprise surprise!

Friday 8.15pm

While I was eating my piece of delicious homemade chicken pie, I saw some candle light movements outside, not long after that, the signing of birthday song. Hehe... oh, there it was, my birthday "surprise". I had later made my birthday wishes, the same ones for the third time this year (the wishes would just HAVE to come true, wouldn't they after so many times of wishing??), and blow the candle - which was supplied by myself - on the pizza. Haha... Aunt said since I bake cakes all the time, she gave me a pizza instead. So creative right?


Friday 7.00pm

I reached home early yesterday because I wanted to go to the clinic first. Besides, I really need to get on with my 2 deliveries for the next day. I arrived home and found that no one was having dinner, and amusingly, MC was making a chicken pie. Hmm... She hasn't really had the mood to cook lately (the lasagne sheets and tomato purees are still in the store cupboard by the way MC). And mum wasn't having dinner then, strangely, she said "you eat this vege first lah" - "first lah"... what's second? The chicken pie maybe. The pie was delicious by the way, just slight modifications to be done and it will be up the TeaRoom menu already.

I asked MC in the middle of my "first" dinner, "Is Alex coming over later?". And MC said "dunno wo"... Eh? So strange one? Hmm...

So I texted Alex "I think it's still on. DON'T tell them you told me"


Friday 6.30pm

Dr. Hooi said the redness of my eye was due to sensitivity. It must have been the late nights and lack of sleep... My blood pressure was a bit low too.


Friday 6.15pm

I was almost reaching home until I remember to return Alex's missed call. Told him I don't need him to get me the butter because I will be able to get them myself. Alex told me he's still at Jaya Jusco and if I couldn't get the butter at the grocery shop, I can still call him. He said he will be coming over later to have dinner at my house. We were going to have pizza. I was so hungry then and told him to come earlier since he said he was getting the pizza for me too.

Alex told me that I was going to get a birthday surprise, and the pizza was meant to be my "birthday cake" because I'm already good in baking, they wouldn't want to get me cakes from the shops outside. Oohh? Okay, and you guys were planning to stick a candle on the pizza? Alex said yes but they were still looking for candles. So I told him I do have a lot of candles and mei mei will know where the candles were.

But he said since the surprise is not on anymore, it doesn't matter that he told me.

See? See why it was strange for me when MC said she doesn't know whether Alex was coming over? Hahaha... No, MC doesn't know I know until this very minute, until she reads this. Surprise!! Hee...


Friday about 5pm or so

Skype message from TTB to MC "I'm coming back early, need to go see Dr Hooi to get something for my eye"


Thursday 9.30pm

Text message from MC to TTB "R u going to the gym tomorrow"

TTB said "no, tomorrow yoga at office"

Received MC's message saying "she will be back about 8pm lo"

Eh? Who, me?

Then another message from MC asking me to ignore that earlier message.

Oooookay.

White Lilies

White lilies from Tony. My favorite flower. Aren't they beautiful?



The flowers arrived at my office the day before my birthday.

My room smells really good now with the flowers around. :)

Thanks darling!