I'm officially a MRS!

Wow! How does "Mrs T" sound? Erm...a little strange isn't it? Still getting used to being married. Well, nothing much has changed, in a way. Seeing my Darling every day is what I've been waiting for... Just that now, I'm staying at a different place. A new home. A new family. A new feeling.

Honeymoon at Bali was great! We stayed at Hard Rock Hotel.

It was really beautiful and I love the pool!

4 days was actually pretty short. We reached at night, so there was practically nothing much, except for the nightclubs and such. No night shopping at little shops as we expected from Phuket. The 2nd day we went sightseeing and visiting the different art centres @ Bali. The tour guide said that 100% of Balinese are artists. They are either painters, wood-cravers, stone-cravers, jewellery-makers, and so on. It was kind of nice travelling from village to village and seeing how the landscape and the culture changes.

The food was great, especially dinner at Jimbaran! Imagine Darling and I sitting at the beach, having dinner while watching sunset! There was BBQ fish, calamari, grilled prawn and clams!
For someone who is picky about fish, I actually finished the whole fish! Drooling while thinking about it!

Dinner @ DuLang was great too! The steak that Darling had was cooked just right! Tender and juicy!



And not forgetting the dessert - Grilled Banana with icing sugar and ice-cream!! It was superb!! I miss it! Slurp!

The personnel at Hard Rock were all friendly and efficient. We enjoyed our stay there.
I may not want to visit Bali again but I would want to go back to Hard Rock ;)

It's been a long, long time!

It's been a long, long time since my previous entry. Been busy with getting back to work after almost a month break. Been too relaxed, yet coping with emotional adjustments. Then came all wedding preparation. A week from now, I'll be known as MRS instead of MISS. That sounds weird! I cannot imagine myself being a MRS and married, let alone a wife (& soon, a mother?!?!) I look forward to the days ahead, being able to see my Darling every day and spend my life with him. It's the status that I find difficulty adapting to. Funny, having someone to call you "Mrs T" instead of "Ms T". It sounds so old! I'm only a little girl at heart! Well, I guess it's a life journey that some will need to go thru. Perhaps the next time I blog, it'd be a change in status, lifestyle, environment, and what have you :)

Photos

Buckingham Palace

London Eye

Big Ben

Dutch Clogs

Windmills

Pancake

Unexpected Event

The title of the last entry was 'Unexpected Holiday'. The title for today's entry is 'Unexpected Event'. It was truly unexpected. I lost my Dad last Monday. What a shock! I still couldn't believe that it had happened. We were on holiday, came back and had wedding celebration and before we could finally settle down to 'daily' routine again, I found myself making a huge adjustment in life. Dad simply collapsed out of a sudden at home on Mon morning. I was at work. My VP came to my classroom to break the news. By the time I rushed to the hospital, Dad had passed away. I simply cannot comprehend how a living person can simply be gone, just like that! Life is truly but a breath! Once that breath is last breathed, almost nothing can bring a person back to life again.

Thru' out the whole of last week, images of what Dad would have done in every situation at home, etc came to mind. Dad would be sitting at the dining table when I wake up in the morning. At about 6.50am, Dad would leave home to bring me to school. When I open the door, Dad would be sitting in the living room watching TV. How I miss Dad!

I love my PaPa and I miss calling him 'PaPa' and giving him a hug.

PaPa, I love you!

An Unexpected (Extended) Holiday!

Due to fly off on Tue (3 Jul). Was happy to be on the way home as I missed my Darling a lot.

We arrived early at Cardiff Airport, expecting jam and such due to the high alert state that UK is in now after the various bomb scares and Glasgow Airport bombing. As we waited, the timing of our departure kept changing. In the end, our flight to Amsterdam was delayed as a result of bad weather. We knew we would be late for our connecting flight. I could only pray that that flight would be delayed too. Alas, we did miss the flight back to Singapore and we ended up staying one night at Amsterdam. We had initially wanted to visit that city when we had a stopover on our way to Cardiff. That didn't materialise as time was tight. Well, well, now we did have the chance to have a quick glance of the city!

It was indeed an extended holiday! We managed to visit a windmill park and gotten some souvenirs. It was a good trip on the whole, aside from all those unforseen circumstances.

It'd be quite some time before I have the patience and courage to travel long distance to Europe again (& having to have Western food all the time!).

** Will include photos in the next entry