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May Day Weekend

FABULOUS weekend! :)

Saturday morning's class was fun! Especially love the part where they gave us dolls to play practise holding babies in breastfeeding position wahahaha. Other Half thinks I'm too rough with the doll. Hehe.

Went for a short getaway to JB. Stayed at Thistle for the second time because the first time was totally awesome, but this time round the service sucks. We were made to wait for like an hour before we could get our room because it wasn't ready. What the heck!! It's not like we asked for early check-in! I think they were shorthanded, but knowing that it's a public holiday, and the number of bookings they have, shouldn't they get more people to come and work?! Disaster at the reception I tell you. So many people were waiting.

Anyway. That aside, it was a good getaway. Laze around doing nothing haha. Other Half wanted a seafood dinner and so we went to Senibong. I haven't even heard of that place in my life yet it's so popular! LOADS of people there! Very hard to find parking. And many Singaporeans too! At such late hours! I have no idea how people get to know such places. The journey there is like so far lah! But apparently it's very near to Sembawang, we can see the shipyard. The food was okay-okay (I'm not a big fan of seafood), but we had to wait very long for it to come. We even saw crabs that were selling at RM120 each! Omg! How expensive is that!

Oh! And we bought Chinese calligraphy for our home! Yay! Finally the bare wall will have something. And it's huge! About 6 feet long? We were afraid it wouldn't fit in the car even with the back seats down, but it did! Ngamngam!


Here it is! We though it'll fill up practically the whole wall, but our wall is larger than we remember wahahaha. I've always loved Chinese calligraphy, good thing Other Half likes it too!


See! There's still space on the wall! Now the difficult part is to get it hung properly hmmm.

Our home is slowly but surely coming together! And by slowly I mean tortoise-slow. This Saturday we're expecting our coffee table and TV console to arrive! Yippee!! :)

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