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Simin:  That’s why. You debra yuiern joanna etc not getting married but my other friends are!! And its all they will ever talk abt lor, planning wedding, choosing hotels etc

Flora: ya.. when do you think we’ll start to talk about hotels and gowns ah?

Simin: Maybe when we are 35!!! Hhahahha when everyone talking abt 2nd KID hahahahaa

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Whilst at Holland V on Friday night, we walked past Coffee Bean.

Me to the boy: Eh, does Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf automatically come to your mind when you see the letters CBTL?

The boy: No, I think of chee bye tu lan.

From Sister Rachael Jonadab BP [38 Rue Des Martyrs Cocody Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire
DEAREST ONE OF GOD I am the above named person from Kuwait. I am married to Mr. Ramsey Jonadab, who worked with Kuwait embassy in Ivory Coast for nine years before he died in the year 2004. We were married for eleven years without a child. He died after a brief illness that lasted for only four days. Before his death we were both born again Christian. since his death I decided not to remarry or get a child outside my matrimonial home which the Bible is against. When my late husband was alive he deposited the sum of $2. 5 Million (Two Million and Five Hundred thousand U.S. Dollars) in the bank here in Abidjan in a suspense account. Presently, the fund is still in the bank. Recently, my Doctor told me that i have seriously sickness which is cancer problem. The one that disturbs me most is my stroke sickness. Having known my condition I decided to donate this fund to a church or individual that will utilize this money the way I am going to instruct herein. I want a church that will use this fund for orphanages, widows, propagating the word of God and to endeavour that the house of God is maintained. The Bible made us to understand that blessed is the hand that giveth. I took this decision because I don’t have any child that will inherit this money and my husband relatives are not Christians and I don’t want my husband’s efforts to be used by unbelievers. I don’t want a situation where this money will be used in an ungodly way. This is why I am taking this decision. I am not afraid of death hence i know where I am going. I know that I am going to be in the bosom of the Lord. Exodus 14 VS 14 says that the Lord will fight my case and I shall hold my peace. I don’t need any telephone communication in this regard because of my health hence the presence of my husband’s relatives is around me always I don’ t want them to know about this development. With God all things are possible. As soon as I receive your reply I shall give you the contact of the bank here in Abidjan. I want you and the church to always pray for me because the Lord is my shepherd. My happiness is that I lived a life of a worthy Christian. Whoever that wants to serve the Lord must serve him in spirit and Truth. Please always be prayerful all through your life. Contact me through my e-mail address for more information’s, any delay in your reply will give me room in sourcing another church or individual for this same purpose. Please assure me that you will act accordingly as I Stated herein.

Hoping to receive your reply

Remain blessed in the Lord. Yours in Christ, Sister Rachael Jonadab.

After my last post, a friend posted on Facebook that I could try for a dragon baby. Super major wtf.

Child birth scares me.  It really scares the hell out of me. I’m the super wussy, useless, teh type of girl who screams or cries (depending on my mood, though it’s usually the latter) when I get a paper cut or when my nails break. I can’t imagine me going through labour, ever.

Not that I’m having kids anytime soon – I’ll say a good 5 to 10 years later at least? But so many people I know seem to be caught in this rat race to have a kid. Or maybe I’m the one behind time.. but all the talking about 15-hour labours, cutting here and there, epidural and stuff gives me goosebumps every.single.time. I screeched the other day when I was surfing Facebook and I saw that a friend had posted the picture of her newborn right after it’s out. With the blood and all. NOT A PRETTY SIGHT AT ALL.  Why will anyone want to traumatise people on Facebook like that?

Is it normal that I get the shivers when I think of something so big coming out of me? It sounds insanely painful.

Confinement sounds like a nightmare too. Why will anyone want to eat pig trotters stewed in vinegar?

In a way, I’m very thankful that my friends are still happily unmarried with no kids. I feel much happier talking about superficial Friday nights (St James again for the 3rd week in a row? Or should we try bowling for cheap thrills?) and impromptu travels. Shoes and bags too. I can’t imagine talking about gynae visits and I don’t know…body temperature? Whatever pregnant friends talk about when they get together.

I feel kinda ashamed to say this, but I actually caught Breaking Dawn a couple of weeks back. Don’t judge. Okay, fine, judge all you want… And I think the boy hates me for making him watch it with me.

Anyway, I’m making this confession now because I’m listening to Christina Perri’s A Thousand Years. *hides in shame*

In other news, I got a little depressed yesterday when I realised that I have to travel for work twice this month. Sigh. Major sigh. I really don’t like work travel very much.

I’m checking out new destinations for my next holiday (which won’t be anytime soon, but I like to have holiday dreams). I want somewhere exotic and magical, like those places you see in those 100 places you must visit before you die kinda books. I’m dying to go to Sri Lanka, Tibet, South America, Lebanon and the likes but the boy hates these places. So… I guess it’s either I travel alone or find some like-minded travel companions.

There’re so many places in this world I really want to see and I’m so afraid that I won’t have enough time to do so in this life.

I’ve been wanting to write about my 2011 and my aims for 2012 but I can’t seem to get down to it. In a nutshell, 2011 has been relatively okay. The boy and I fought quite a bit in the first half of the year, partly cause we got out of the honeymoon phase and partly cause I was damn hormonal and was PMS-ing 24-7. He was away so much in 2010 so it felt like a holiday of sorts every time we met, but in 2011 he was around so much that I didn’t get time to do my nails, hair, facial etc but that’s going to change this year! I’m gonna take charge of my life! Anyway things got a lot better in the second half of 2011, I got off the pill and was as happy as a lark until my skin started breaking out a little here and there.. aiya, I can’t seem to win this pill/pimples battle.

I also started travelling to China last year for work and whilst having Siew as a travel partner made things a little better, I still generally get depressed about the trips.

Work wise, my baby grew quite a bit. We launched our much-loved flair collections to much success, started our premium range and after a series of supernatural events and hiccups, we finally settled into our very comfortable and spacious new place in Thailand. More to come in 2012.. we have so many exciting stuff planned! Super psyched. Go see our January premium designs if you haven’t! I’m super excited about it cause the designs are just so awesome.

Fulfilled my greatest lust in 2011, thanks to the amazing boyfriend. Major love!

Moving on.. in 2012 I hope that the working relationship with the partners will continue to be this awesome, for my ClubCouture baby to continue growing strong and healthy (more pretty clothes for everyone!), for the boy and me to always be this good and for property prices to drop. And for the radiation shit to improve – Japan is one of the few countries we both agree on.

It’s a little late..but here’s wishing all of us an amazing year ahead!

Feeling quite miserable atm – Maybe it’s the menstrual cramps or the fact that I’m terribly sleepy but I’m forcing myself to stay up so I can talk to the boy about when to watch Wicked (he’s playing Starcraft as usual), but I’m really feeling like shit. Kinda depressed, sorta. WHY

ANYWAY, moving on to happier things, if you are looking for a pretty dress for CNY…

If you didn’t already know, our premium items are made in quality fabric and the cutting, stitching etc will impress you. Superb boutique quality at very reasonable prices.. I know I’m super sales talky but I think quality is really important! A good design with poor quality will only make the dress and hence you the wearer look cheappppp :/

Some of my favourites from this launch:

Shop here: http://www.clubcouture.cc/ love!

I haven’t been driving since we got back from our getaway and it’s quite a nice feeling to have the boy send me to the office and pick up every day

I’ve a MAJOR craving for cakes that isn’t going away

im typing this on the tab so punctuation’s gonnna be wonky.. This christmas is quite the best i’ve ever had. No fancy feast (we’re throwing a party next week instead!) or presents, but an insane amount of fun. That despite little hiccup – we arrived at the hotel only to realise that he’d booked the rooms for 11 dec instead!! And walk in rates surged to an all time peak cause of the festive season but thankfully, we managed to book via latestays.com at a much much cheaper price whilst sitting in the hotel lobby highly recommended site for last minute bookings!

Back to the holiday.. I totally killed my diet again cause we ate like 6 or 7 full meals a day!! Breakfast, brunch, lunch,tea, dinner, deserts&drinks, supper… Terribly gross our holiday destinations ought to be budapest and the likes so we’ll walk more, see more and eat less.

No presents this year too but I think the Chanel he got me for my birthday’s good enough heh.

I’m playing this song on loop now. This is my favourite version of Auld Lang Syne.

“The perfect Christmas gifts! I’ll buy you an epilator and you can get me a nose hair trimmer!”

Back to work after a good ten days away and it ain’t hard to get back into the swing of things, especially when I know it’s going to be an exceptionally short week cause we’re going on yet another getaway this weekend!

The holiday was such a well-deserved break. We had hot chocolate in the falling snow, shopped crazily for skin care stuff in Seoul (I lugged back an insane amount of Laneige), walked into random small eateries at Jeju and had the best pizza of our lives and enjoyed the sweetest strawberries with cream! Shanghai was amazing – I can’t enough of The Bund!

I stood there for the longest time, on a cold, windy night, amongst hordes of tourists and uttered a million times that I’m in love.

We also found the best tang baos and I had my hairy crab fix. I totally wrecked my diet, but it’s a holiday, right?

This trip really reignited the desire in me to relocate again – travelling for work just doesn’t seem to cut it anymore. We bumped into his colleague whilst having drinks at Morton’s and I couldn’t help feeling really envious that he’s now doing his undergraduate studies in Shanghai and his wife’s working there too.

In other happier news, the hotel we got in Shanghai was amazing. I thought Lebua was the best we could ever get.. but this one had a bedding menu and the most comfy sheets and my dream bathroom with a big round tub and his/her sinks. Room rates typically start from $600 a night but we got an extremely good deal – I feel like I totally need to take credit for this. What do you think I was doing when I spent those many evenings ploughing through every possible hotel booking site?

I’m up  at 5am because I woke up super early to clear work so I can get the weekend off in peace Am writing this in the midst of snow capped mountains with a horrible aching body.. I skied for the first time yesterday and fell way too many times BUT we had hot chocolate in the falling snow and that’s probably one of the best feelings in the world.