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.

Why is it that every single time before I fly, I have to end up working my ass off till the wee hours of the morning? So much to do, so little time. I haven’t packed and I just realized that I don’t have waterproof gloves. I don’t even know where’s my suitcase.

We’re heading to Seoul + Jeju + Shanghai – a little too ambitious for 9 days if you ask me and I’ve bought enough winter clothes to last a lifetime. I absolutely cannot survive cold weather and they say that Korea can be bone-chilling cold Somehow we’re not too keen about this trip cause the boy being a foodie, assesses a country’s fun factor by the food it offers and we’re both not fans of Korean cuisine at all. Too much vegetables in general and we hate kimchi. I’m pretty excited to check out Shanghai again! Hello The Bund & Nanjing road! x

Oh my god, I just realized I don’t even know where’s MY PASSPORT.

And I still have to book the hotel for our Christmas weekend getaway. Yes, we’re making up for all the holidays we never got due to bad, bad, bad work schedules.

Okay, back to work. Love you peeps!

And before I forget to blog about this email the boy previously sent when he was supposed to be WORKING in sqn..

from Garry Go
to Flora Lim
date Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 10:17 AM
subject Hi, 26/m/sg, can we be friends?

Hi,

My name is Garry, and I am a 26 year old chinese guy. I enjoy playing Starcraft 2 and I love to eat. You are very pretty. Can we be friends?

Cheers,
Garry
26 year old chinese guy

I woke up on the wrong side of bed this morning and was such a terror to deal with. I got angry that my hair’s so oily, my brows are undone and that I have to shower in cold water and so I threw a tantrum and refused to join the boy for his friend’s baby shower.