Wednesday, February 18, 2009
I'm almost certain. Last week I was not sure, almost negative even. My head & husband have been the voice of reason, my heart always tries to dispute whatever reason. I always say, if aint broken why fix it. why try & make adjustments to a comfortable situation. But then, how long am I going to rest on my laurels. I think 4 years is more than enough. The offer does not come to just anybody. They even try to concede to my requests & willing to make compromises just so I can accept the offer, They are still giving me a few more days as the 1st round of offer I have rejected. They will come back to me again, hopeful I will have a change of heart. As the days go by, I start to think with reason & think in terms of reality. With the economic showing no sign of certainty, it would be silly to just let an opportunity like this slip by. I am facing the fact that I am not in my prime of youth, but with me comes a wealth of experience that they must have known will come in handy. My husband said just give my all in the next 5 years. I mean 4 years did go by so quickly without me realizing it. I had more than my fair share of fun & now its high time to put what I have to good use. The husband say if I can give my all in the next 5 yrs, I can definitely retire in peace before I hit 40.(so looking forward to that - tai-tai-dom still sounds good u know). I think its almost certain now. I'll see if there a few more conditions that they can fulfil to fully convince me to come aboard.
Back in my K-lala-Land, for the past few days, I rediscovered the joys of teeny-bopper high school romance. You HAVE to watch 'Boys Over Flowers'. Its the korean version of the Taiwanese F4 Meteor Gardens & of the original Japanese Manga adaptation of Hana Yori Dango. Biased as I am, yes, I much preferred the Korean version of it. I was first attracted to watch it knowing that Kim Bum would be in it, having made a fan after watching him as the young Song Seung Hoon in 'East of Eden'. But to my horror, I was even more addicted watching the likes of Lee Min Ho inspite of my utmost aversion to any kind of man-perm (think Jae Hee in Yu Hee the Witch) . I think he is definitely one of those rare breed that makes a man-perm look so acceptable. Its currently into it's 13th episode in Korea but KBS world just started airing its 1st episode every Monday & Tuesday nights over the cable. I even managed to rope in my mum to watch Jan-di in Shinhwa School & surprise even myself that she would enjoy watching it with me. I have completed(finally) watching 'Air City' and even though it was not too bland, I wouldnt say I was raving about it although I think Lee Jung Jae looking like James Lye is a plus point. Meanwhile, I will look forward to Tuesdays & Wednesdays once someone uploads the latest episode of Kkotboda Namja :)
Thursday, February 12, 2009
The past weekend felt like a daze - daze as in a good one as it passed by me so quickly. Friday night, I met up with my primary school mates for another fun dinner at Vivo. ALthough only 8 of the expected 15 attended, it was still a fun & a memorable night - more like noisy-bunch especially hearing all 8 30-something yapping & giggling like teenagers. On Saturday, 2 of the Shiralique offsprings celebrated their 6th & 8th birthday over at East Coast Chalet, now named-albeit more action-classily to Goldkist Resorts. There were bouncy castles, little fairies & pixies playing dress-ups, clowns, face-painters, pop-corn & cotton candy wheel carts & it certainly felt like a carnival. The kids had fun. They never seem to get tired of the bouncy castle jumping non-stop for 4 hours straight. At the end of the night, the kid,s were like me, tired but very happy.
Back in Hallyu-land, its been raining Ji-Hoon in town, well in this Ahjumma's town at least. Our boy-wonder have been keeping himself busy with one movie after another and even managed to star in a musical in between movie preview screenings. I have been fed with just trailers of his 'Antique Bakery' which opened on my birthday last year, and due to its mature theme, I doubt it would be screening in Singapore anytime soon. I of course will not be able to catch him in the musical 'Don Juan' as it would only be staged in Korea, but I am keeping my fingers crossed that ' Kitchen' in which he is starring with Shin Min-ah will be screened here without any problems. I do hope he'll do another drama soon as its been quite a while now since he acted in any drama series. Apparently the much anticipated drama serial that everyone thought would reunite him again with Yoon Eun Hye have been canned. I am still halfway through 'Air-City'. It seems that I could never seem to have that short marathon stint to watch it fully to completion - strange isnt it coming from a non-full-time,not-so-SAHM who seems to have time in her hands. So meanwhile, in between checking my e-mails I would just have to be contented with trailers of Ji-hoon movies - and oh a 'Kitchen' trailer where he serenades Min-Ah in french...how sweet is that?? I think this Ahjumma has lost it again...tsk tsk tsk...
Friday, February 06, 2009
With just the 2nd mth greeting us in 2009, little humps here & there have brushed by me. Paying me little visit, waking me up from my la-la land that things are not always as rosy as we want or wish to be. With the temporary health scare put behind me last month, I was haunted once again by the nightmare of the accident that I got myself into while on assignment at Fuhua. Apparently the uncle who drive the truck now twisted the facts on his insurance report & insisted that I was the one coming out from the school compund & did not do a proper check when I hit him on the main road. I guess he would save no expense on defending himself as he would rather I foot the bill even though its no fault of mind, even though I was NOT coming out from the school, even though he came from the side to brush his big truck against my rear. On hindsight, I should have been tougher on him, I should have looked pass his pitiful face, begging me to let him go as he is just a mere truck driver. So we were offered a 50% cost payment compensation which means in other words I accepted responsibility as one at fault. But the report also said that its his word against mine as there were no witnesses so it was a no-win situation as far as I can see. So the husband asked me to email the picture of the care just after the accident. I thought I saved it in my Macbook but my Macbook was in the 'workshop' for a week due to some problems with my logic board. AFter it was repaired the guy said that the parts were corroded & it looks like it was poured with some liquid which eventually caused my Macbook to play punk on me. Yes I was certainly not in a party-mood with the cost of the repair of both car & Macbook settled by the dear husband. He was not very amused when told the picture of the car was in fact not in my Mac but already accidentally deleted from my phone. So now he said, we have no evidence at least to have a fighting chance to see if we can appeal for a full compensation. At that moment I felt like I was in a dumpster - not a nice feeling I must say.
So I shall let the 'wound' slowly heal...after all its just the 2nd month..but I do hope there wont be any major drama in the near future, Insyaallah, but then again we can only hope & wish, for now... and for now, there's always my good old Korean drama to give me my much needed hype - now I'm halfway through 'Air City', always good to keep your mind off things to wallow yourself in Hallyu Land....always good...