Birthdays BBQ

for Wei, XL and me

the singing

The cake-cutting

The toast

all of us

with Wei and Kay

27

the days leading up to and the day itself were spent at day-long meetings which were followed by night-long drafting sessions. what a bummer. didn't even have time to get all mopey and pensive about creeping one more year nearer to the big 3-0. but i was starting to get really depressed when it was fast approaching 10pm and i was STILL stuck in the boardroom of X firm, tapping away on the computer and taking instructions.

Thankfully i got off the hook and managed to have a quick dinner, lovingly prepared by mummy dearest (complete with red eggs!), with hubs, before zipping off to join the girls for a drink. sadly, i arrived AFTER midnight! *fail*

in view of the very sad situation of having missed my very first birthday with hubs after we've been married, the 16th of December (the day after) was declared my birthday for this year instead. hee...

slept in late and woke up to a big breakfast, courtesy of hubs, then traipsed down to the new (to me!) Marina Square pick out furniture for our "spa room". 'twas a lovely lovely day! even though i had to get back to work again on Sunday.

oh please... let me get through the rest of the week...

Birthday Flowers

to replace the ones i'd lost on the evening of our wedding...

It's Christmas! and i'm inspired...

Don’t think I’ll be having a very Christmassy Christmas this year, what with all the work that’s coming my way – the long weekend looks burnt – BUT that’s no reason for not dressing up the home, right? :)

Am in the process of “making” a wreath too. Didn’t very much like the prickly ones that the artificial Christmas trees are made of, so I picked a plain deep-green leafy bough mounted on dried twigs – love the forest-chocolate colour contrast, and will be adding on some of my own berries, acorns and red poinsettia (unfortunately all artificial though…) to complete it.

DH didn’t want a Christmas tree this year (time and space constraints), so I’m settling for 3 antique-bronze finished candle stands in the corner, adorned with festive holly and berries and a silver platter of natural-finish and gilded acorns!