venue

Good news for this week.... is... *drum roll* we finally have a venue!!! A venue for our wedding reception, of course! Its a nice restaurant, I've read about it. We requested for the menu, checked out their requirements, it ticks most of 'my' boxes, arranged a time to see the restaurant, and we liked it! Little-Miss-Whats-For-Lunch goes to me "Jules, try the food first, then only book it!" Nahhh can't be bothered. Seriously, I'm OVERRRR it!

I paid the deposit today, so fingers crossed, it works out and stuff. Its not a grand ball room, not a reception hall, it doesn't come with the round tables with white chair covers and coloured sashes, nor does it come with a parquetry floor.. hence, it is exactly what I want! Its looks pretty contemporary, and I like it. I think poor Grumpy wanted the grand ball room, with round tables, white chair covers, coloured sashes and wooden parquetry floor.. but thats not me.. no no no. That is an American suburban wedding you see on Bridezilla.. or on Youtube! hahaha

I missed gym today. Damnit. I didn't leave work early enough to make it for my Body Jam class. Bummer. And Grumpy and Dopey are out. So I eat dinner alone.

As I was eating, I started texting my friends "How do you wake Lady Gaga up?"

Here are the responses:

Sydney boy: What? We saw her on Sunday night!
me: *answers*
Sydney boy: Ha ha ha

Little-Miss-Whats-For-Lunch: Take her to Britney's concert?
me: *answers*
Little-Miss-Whats-For-Lunch: Lame Jules!

I am not lame! I am bored, thats all!
hahahaha

Little-Miss-Drink-A-Lot: What? Huh?
me: *answers*
Little-Miss-Drink-A-Lot: hahahahah stupid!

Is she calling me stupid?

Mr Funny: Er.. Just dance?
me: *answers*
Mr Funny: Jeez, haha you must have learnt it from some year 2 kid

Not bad, at least his answer was Lady Gaga related.. compared to the Britney one. haha

The only friend that got it right was Little-Miss-Curtains (formerly known as Little Miss Fun, because she got a boyfriend, bought a house, and has been sewing her own curtains since). And when she texted me the answer, I reckon it was Little-Miss-Whats-For-Lunch that quickly texted her the answer, but she said it was her boyfriend instead! haha

And the answer is.. poke-her-face!

quite over it

Finally its the weekend again. Two days ago I had shitburger at work. It was not the best, but I told myself that it has been a while since I've had one, so take it easy.. On top of that, I service the Asian offices, which is challenging as it is, and in order to get help or a resolution, I have to go back to my European colleagues in Lux. While they are nice and good people, they can be quite rude and instead of moving a step forward, I find myself going three steps backwards. 

Grumpy and I are torn between venue locations for both our wedding ceremony and reception. We have seen a few places, and we are juggling between minimum numbers. Be it persons or $ spends. We are well running out of time. Its just so hard, I have not really started on the wedding preps, yet I am already quite over it. Also, I got into a fight with Mum, as she insists that we are spending too much money on the wedding. She has an opinion about everything and she drives me mental. When I tell her how much, she says to me "Then where do the 'Not-so-rich' people get married?!?!?!?!" But Mum, its not even a luxurious location or anything, I find them pretty average. Maybe a bit more than average, but still average!

Anyway, Grumpy and I are both quite pleased and touched by some responses we've received from our close family and friends about our wedding. A friend from Dublin has applied for time off, awaiting more finite details from myself, while yesterday we found out Grumpy's sister has already booked her flight from KL. 

A funny story is, when we were back for Grumpy's brother's wedding, they organised a buck's night for his brother, the groom. When Grumpy told me that his mum, dad and both his sisters will be present at the bucks night, I said to him "I quite like the idea of this bucks night, lets make sure you do the same for yours", much to his dismay. Yesterday Grumpy was on the phone with his best man, Mr Funny, I overheard them talking about Grumpy's bucks night. I asked to speak to Mr Funny, and I said to him "You make sure you have his bucks night, exactly like his brother's". Then was a short pause, and then he went "NOOO WAYY!! NOT WHEN I'M THE BEST MAN!!!!" 

I end my post today with a pic of Dopey. We were both in the car this afternoon, about to head out for lunch, a Food Fair organised by the buddhist society, and then Dopey felt his car was sort of leaning towards the left. I put my head out the door, and there it was, a flat tyre. It is too funny, he only got a ticket a few days ago when he parked his car on the street at our house, also his lights are broken, and now he has a flat tyre. He has never changed a flat tyre before, we rang our Dad to ask for advice.

apple pie

I have been slacking on the blog here as I have been pretty caught up with heaps of stuff. Also, I was very keen to start like a website using my Mac applications, you know, to make the most of my Mac experience.. However, I was downright disappointed when I found out that it would cost me real money, just to maintain that website. And unfortunately, I haven't been feeling too generous, so this is me back here now, on this FOC blog. 

Today is a public holiday here in Australia. I did not get up to anything exciting this long weekend. I guess its also because, I spent my life savings on a recent trip back to KL and Singapore, and also.. I bought a new fridge. Which was long overdue, I guess. But it cost me pretty much an arm and a leg. 

Now I shall tell you a story about my day. While not many people wants to hear me whinge about my weight, just bare with me on this one, I put on a few (unnecessary) kilos when I went back to KL. This is unavoidable, of course, but I swear I did. My boss reckons I put on all this weight on my earlobes. (I know, I endure too much European sarcasm while at work) 

And so, I have been trying to go to the gym to exercise (I say this will full spirits).. and while running on the threadmill today, I plugged my earphones to watch TV at the gym. The only shows on TV were cook shows and ads of fast food. While running my heart out, I saw, on TV, a picture of a delicious hot apple pie. And guess what? This is a bloody paradox, I swear, but next to my FF gym, is McDonalds. And so, I did something bad. I cut short my time at the gym, and I drove to bloody Maccas and got myself an apple pie. A moment of weakness. Bad Julee.